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DIR commit 9def3a0fbe48ebfd06f4457c8b1f7fb3b7e1bf81
DIR parent 30fd42c1cea0f7fd50154933a95d1e8ea1f835c1
HTML Author: Vedant Sule <sulevedant@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:06:00 +0100
Add taglayouts patch for dwm 6.8 with bugfix
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A dwm.suckless.org/patches/taglayout… | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
M dwm.suckless.org/patches/taglayout… | 1 +
2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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DIR diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/patches/taglayouts/dwm-taglayouts-6.8.diff b/dwm.suckless.org/patches/taglayouts/dwm-taglayouts-6.8.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+From 26a6205515ee7504e1f11e08aaf7d9de94ebc121 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Vedant Sule <sulevedant@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:35:28 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Set initial previous layout
+
+Initialize the previous layout to switch to (default keybind:
+Mod+Shift). This fixes a bug with the patch which caused dwm to crash
+when attempting to switch to the previous layout without selecting one
+first.
+---
+ config.def.h | 1 +
+ dwm.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
+ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
+index 81c3fc0..ca54ad7 100644
+--- a/config.def.h
++++ b/config.def.h
+@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ static const char *colors[][3] = {
+
+ /* tagging */
+ static const char *tags[] = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" };
++static const int taglayouts[] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
+
+ static const Rule rules[] = {
+ /* xprop(1):
+diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
+index 53b9d4a..3179361 100644
+--- a/dwm.c
++++ b/dwm.c
+@@ -652,9 +652,6 @@ createmon(void)
+ m->nmaster = nmaster;
+ m->showbar = showbar;
+ m->topbar = topbar;
+- m->lt[0] = &layouts[0];
+- m->lt[1] = &layouts[1 % LENGTH(layouts)];
+- strncpy(m->ltsymbol, layouts[0].symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
+ m->pertag = ecalloc(1, sizeof(Pertag));
+ m->pertag->curtag = m->pertag->prevtag = 1;
+
+@@ -662,13 +659,23 @@ createmon(void)
+ m->pertag->nmasters[i] = m->nmaster;
+ m->pertag->mfacts[i] = m->mfact;
+
+- m->pertag->ltidxs[i][0] = m->lt[0];
+- m->pertag->ltidxs[i][1] = m->lt[1];
++ if (i >= 1) {
++ m->pertag->ltidxs[i][0] = &layouts[taglayouts[i - 1]];
++ m->pertag->ltidxs[i][1] = &layouts[(taglayouts[i - 1] + 1) % LENGTH(layouts)];
++ }
++ else {
++ m->pertag->ltidxs[i][0] = &layouts[0];
++ m->pertag->ltidxs[i][1] = &layouts[1 % LENGTH(layouts)];
++ }
+ m->pertag->sellts[i] = m->sellt;
+
+ m->pertag->showbars[i] = m->showbar;
+ }
+
++ m->lt[0] = m->pertag->ltidxs[1][0];
++ m->lt[1] = m->pertag->ltidxs[1][1];
++ strncpy(m->ltsymbol, m->pertag->ltidxs[1][0]->symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
++
+ return m;
+ }
+
+--
+2.54.0
+
DIR diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/patches/taglayouts/index.md b/dwm.suckless.org/patches/taglayouts/index.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Please apply the pertag patch before attempting to patch taglayouts.
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* [dwm-taglayouts-6.4.diff](dwm-taglayouts-6.4.diff)
+* [dwm-taglayouts-6.8.diff](dwm-taglayouts-6.8.diff)
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