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DIR commit b49abcada483083fe360ed65e03bc47b58080a45
DIR parent a5402b2f947fc82eeac5dc327db3959288c422af
HTML Author: hamster3332 <malic.s@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 19:12:06 +0200
dwm: Added ruleregex patch
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A dwm.suckless.org/patches/ruleregex… | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A dwm.suckless.org/patches/ruleregex… | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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DIR diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/patches/ruleregex/dwm-ruleregex-20260508-44a91a2.diff b/dwm.suckless.org/patches/ruleregex/dwm-ruleregex-20260508-44a91a2.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+From 44a91a205ebd86a5be6648a1e4a4a8f24aea2dd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: hamster3332 <malic.s@gmx.de>
+Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 18:51:42 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Dwm patch for using regular expressions for window rules
+
+---
+ dwm.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
+index ab3a84c..0cb186c 100644
+--- a/dwm.c
++++ b/dwm.c
+@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
++#include <regex.h>
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/wait.h>
+ #include <X11/cursorfont.h>
+@@ -273,6 +274,18 @@ static Window root, wmcheckwin;
+ /* compile-time check if all tags fit into an unsigned int bit array. */
+ struct NumTags { char limitexceeded[LENGTH(tags) > 31 ? -1 : 1]; };
+
++/* applying extended regex to string */
++int applyregex(const char *str, const char *pattern) {
++ regex_t re;
++ int res = regcomp(&re, pattern, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB);
++ if (res != 0) return strstr(str, pattern) != NULL;
++
++ res = regexec(&re, str, 0, NULL, 0);
++ regfree(&re);
++
++ return !res;
++}
++
+ /* function implementations */
+ void
+ applyrules(Client *c)
+@@ -292,9 +305,9 @@ applyrules(Client *c)
+
+ for (i = 0; i < LENGTH(rules); i++) {
+ r = &rules[i];
+- if ((!r->title || strstr(c->name, r->title))
+- && (!r->class || strstr(class, r->class))
+- && (!r->instance || strstr(instance, r->instance)))
++ if ((!r->title || applyregex(c->name, r->title))
++ && (!r->class || applyregex(class, r->class))
++ && (!r->instance || applyregex(instance, r->instance)))
+ {
+ c->isfloating = r->isfloating;
+ c->tags |= r->tags;
+--
+2.54.0
+
DIR diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/patches/ruleregex/index.md b/dwm.suckless.org/patches/ruleregex/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+ruleregex
+================
+
+Description
+-----------
+This patch allows the use of regular expressions in your window rules instead of bare string matching.
+
+
+Download
+--------
+* [dwm-ruleregex-20260508-44a91a2.diff](dwm-ruleregex-20260508-44a91a2.diff)
+
+Authors
+-------
+* MaliCopter