The existence of the spawn function in dwm surprises me. Wouldn't it be more consistent with Suckless' values (simplicity, minimalism, modularity) if the job of spawning commands were relegated to a hotkey daemon, such as xbindkeys or sxhkd?
It is true that some people could be driven away after being greeted with a black screen without any preconfigured keybinding to open a terminal or dmenu, but dwm takes pride in "keeping its userbase small and elitist, withoutnovices asking stupid questions". That's just curiosity; I still take dwm for the best WM out there.
