Adding distributetags patch

README.md

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Refer to [https://dwm.suckless.org/](https://dwm.suckless.org/) for details on t
 
 ### Changelog:
 
+2021-04-06 - Added the distributetags patch
+
 2021-04-04 - Added option for having different gaps on a per tag basis
 
 2021-03-31 - Added tapresize patch (contributed by [verschmelzen](https://github.com/verschmelzen))
@@ -282,6 +284,9 @@ Refer to [https://dwm.suckless.org/](https://dwm.suckless.org/) for details on t
       - some applications use this property to notify window managers to not draw window decorations
       - not respecting this property leads to issues with applications that draw their own borders, like chromium (with "Use system title bar and borders" turned off) or vlc in fullscreen mode
 
+   - [distributetags](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/reorganizetags/)
+      - this reorganisetags variant re-distributes all clients on the current monitor evenly across all tags
+
    - [dmenumatchtop](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dmenumatchtop)
       - updates the position of dmenu to match that of the bar
       - i.e. if topbar is 0 then dmenu will appear at the bottom and if 1 then dmenu will appear at the top

config.def.h

@@ -869,6 +869,9 @@ static Key keys[] = {
 	#if REORGANIZETAGS_PATCH
 	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,           XK_r,          reorganizetags,         {0} },
 	#endif // REORGANIZETAGS_PATCH
+	#if DISTRIBUTETAGS_PATCH
+	{ MODKEY|ControlMask,           XK_d,          distributetags,         {0} },
+	#endif // DISTRIBUTETAGS_PATCH
 	#if INSETS_PATCH
 	{ MODKEY|ShiftMask|ControlMask, XK_a,          updateinset,            {.v = &default_inset } },
 	#endif // INSETS_PATCH

patch/distributetags.c

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+void
+distributetags(const Arg *arg)
+{
+	unsigned int ui = 1;
+	int i = 0;
+	for (Client *c = selmon->clients; c; c = c->next) {
+		if (HIDDEN(c))
+			continue;
+		if (!(c->tags & TAGMASK))
+			continue;
+		c->tags = (ui << i) & TAGMASK;
+		i = (i + 1) % NUMTAGS;
+	}
+	focus(NULL);
+	arrange(selmon);
+}

patch/distributetags.h

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+static void distributetags(const Arg *arg);

patch/include.c

@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@
 #if DECORATION_HINTS_PATCH
 #include "decorationhints.c"
 #endif
+#if DISTRIBUTETAGS_PATCH
+#include "distributetags.c"
+#endif
 #if DRAGCFACT_PATCH && CFACTS_PATCH
 #include "dragcfact.c"
 #endif

patch/include.h

@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@
 #if DECORATION_HINTS_PATCH
 #include "decorationhints.h"
 #endif
+#if DISTRIBUTETAGS_PATCH
+#include "distributetags.h"
+#endif
 #if DRAGCFACT_PATCH && CFACTS_PATCH
 #include "dragcfact.h"
 #endif

patches.def.h

@@ -445,6 +445,12 @@
  */
 #define DECORATION_HINTS_PATCH 0
 
+/* This feature distributes all clients on the current monitor evenly across all tags.
+ * It is a variant of the reorganizetags patch.
+ * https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/reorganizetags/
+ */
+#define DISTRIBUTETAGS_PATCH 0
+
 /* Similarly to the dragmfact patch this allows you to click and drag clients to change the
  * cfact to adjust the client's size in the stack. This patch depends on the cfacts patch.
  */