### Description Enables hot-reloading of dwl; meaning almost all logic can be changed at runtime. This obviously requires some black magic so for now there's a glibc 2.0 or later dependency to this. In particular this allows for every option in config.h to be changed at runtime. #### Reloading To reload rebuild dwl.so, perhaps reinstall it and then run trigger reload function (bound to Mod+Shift+R by default). This currently calls `notify-send` in order to inform you of a reloading taking place. So in short: 1. make changes to `config.h` or `dwl.c` 2. run `make` to rebuild dwl.so 3. run `sudo make install` to reinstall dwl #### Limitations Reloading the compositor will replace all functionality except for `main`, `setup`, `run` and the reload logic. Note that you're responsible yourself for reloading ressources like fonts, which may only get acquired once. A lot of components of dwl will also only get run on a trigger (the tiling for example). So not every change will be immediate. #### Notes ##### reduce compile errors This patch triggers `-Wpedantic` a bunch (I don't think there's a way around this, `dlsym` yields `void*` pointers to functions). This will show a lot of warnings but cause no errors. So you may want to disable this compile option in order to get readable compiler output. ##### runtime dependencies This does depend on you having a notification daemon like `dunst` or `mako` running as well as having `notify-send` installed in order for the compositor to inform you of the reload. #### How? Most of all dwl functionality is moved into a shared object file `dwl.so`, which can be reloaded at runtime. ### Download - [0.7](/dwl/dwl-patches/raw/branch/main/patches/hot-reload/hot-reload-0.7.patch) - [main 2025-02-14](/dwl/dwl-patches/raw/branch/main/patches/hot-reload/hot-reload.patch) - find the repo for the patch [here](/Sivecano/dwl/src/branch/hot-reload) ### Authors - [Sivecano](https://codeberg.org/Sivecano) - Sérécano at [dwl Discord](https://discord.gg/jJxZnrGPWN)