Try running `tile` as a wm. I imagine it's not fully compliant to support dwm.

Huh. So it's not the window manager. It's individual applications that are working or not.

Working: tile, dwm, pcmanfm-qt, feh, dmenu, glass

Not: alacritty, st

So... Thus far, anything but a terminal other than glass. I'd think the problem was alacritty doing fancy things with APIs that frame doesn't have, but st??