Re: [dwm] dwm status bar..

2009/4/30 Wu, Yue <vanopen_AT_gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:22:59AM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>> 2009/4/30 Wu, Yue <vanopen_AT_gmail.com>:
>> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:08:09PM -0700, Scytrin dai Kinthra wrote:
>> >> use `xsetroot -name <status>` as dwm's status bar contents are now
>> >> derived from the name attribute of the root window.
>> >> It's a good thing, as you no longer need to play the pipe game.
>> >
>> > It's a pain that I have to install an extra software to achieve this simple
>> > thing. :(
>>
>> There is wmname as well which can be used.
>
> I'll have a try, thank you :) Anyway, I think add it into dwm is a perfect way
> for me, it just a simple function, and won't add much more lines of code I
> think, right?

Reading from stdin is significantly more complex than using an X property.

I refer to the hg history:

http://code.suckless.org/hg/dwm/rev/6d6ed7a9183c

Kind regards,
--Anselm
Received on Thu Apr 30 2009 - 08:20:13 UTC