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dwm: Don’t care what the D stands for, but there are a bunch of X11 window managers ending in ‘wm’ so that’s probably what this is too.

dmenu: Since it’s coming from the same place as dwm, it’s probably a menu app that goes well with it.

st isn’t obvious, I agree, but it makes sense to give a short name to the program you use most frequently.



I can agree, but the terminal emulator is something I very rarely launch from the command line. I run it from a menu, or an icon. Maybe with keyboard but then its meta+T




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