chadwm: Doesn't work properly

I followed everything that’s said in Setup section but this DWM doesn’t work. What I mean by that is that it opens, all the key bindings work as usual, but no new graphical elements appear, my status bar is full of emoji codes, I guess, like ^c#BF616A^ with some values in between, such as 1.5G (I guess that’s used RAM), time and such.

I’ve installed dash, imlib2, xsetroot and moved all the fonts from Fonts directory to ~/.local/share/fonts, and then I’ve sudo make installed the program, that’s all. To open I do xstartx, I know that I can put it in xinitrc though.

What should I do?

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Created 2 years ago
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I tried to run bar.sh myself and it asked for my password, once entered it it ran the thing, gave me doas: xbps-install:command not found and now I have the same result, the bar full of “junk”

if you dont use void then edit that function for your distro.

I’m using Arch, and to set anything to the DWM bar xsetroot -name is used. I think the problem is in regards to the fonts since the emojies basically don’t render

chadwm doesnt set any emojis by default but if u add them to the bar then install libxft-bgra from aur

Doesn’t it set them at the top right angle? Like updates, CPU&RAM usage, time. BTW I resolved the issue. Apparently chadwm tried to execute a dwm, but for some reason I had my old also in ~/.local/bin, and chadwm ran the old one instead

Tonetfal on Apr 13, 2022