From 021f3bae939e087a953faafd00374d3744629d93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Wilson <mikewilzn@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:15:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README

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-dwm - dynamic window manager
-============================
-dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
-
-
-Requirements
-------------
-In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
-
-
-Installation
-------------
-Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
-the /usr/local namespace by default).
-
-Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
-necessary as root):
-
-    make clean install
-
-
-Running dwm
------------
-Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
-
-    exec dwm
-
-In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
-the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
-
-    DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
-
-(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
-
-In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
-like this in your .xinitrc:
-
-    while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
-    do
-    	sleep 1
-    done &
-    exec dwm
-
-
-Configuration
--------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
-and (re)compiling the source code.
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+# dwm - dynamic window manager - Mike's build
+
+## Patches Applied
+
+* [Swallow](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/swallow/)
+* [Hide Vacant Tags](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/hide_vacant_tags/)
+* [Pertag](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/pertag/)
+
+### Patch Management
+
+Patches are applied using [Quilt](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/quilt/), which is a patch manager that allows you to easily apply multiple patches, revert specific patches, etc. It makes customizing suckless projects much easier since most changes are done via patches.
+
+## Installation
+
+```sh
+git clone https://git.mjwilson.org/mike/dwm.git
+cd dwm
+sudo make clean install
+```