Re: [dev] dwm and -geometry

On Oct 06, 2009 at 09:13 AM, "Swiat R. Gal" <sgal_AT_math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
 
> If the policy of the Developers is that dwm should be configured through
> config.h (I am not arguing agains that) can one restart dwm on the fly
> after recompiling it?
 
Yes and it's also helpful to restart dwm on the fly *after* recompiling.
Here's how I do it:

$ cat ~/bin/startdwm

    #!/bin/sh

    # A simple script to start dwm in a while loop which
    # allows dwm to be killed without closing programs.
    # Usage: killall dwm <-- restarts dwm
    # killall startdwm <-- kills session

    conky-cli | while read line; do
        xsetroot -name "$line";
    # log stderror to a file
    done | while true; do dwm 2> ~/.dwm.err; done;

Now simply start dwm via startdwm (echo "exec startdwm" >> ~/.xinitrc)

To restart dwm on the fly press Mod+q, this will leave all of your applications
running and simply reinitialize dwm.

I also added a Mod+shift+q bind in config.h to kill startdwm, which closes
the X session in the traditional sense (relative bits below):

    static const char *killsession[] = { "killall", "startdwm", NULL };
    { MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_q, spawn, {.v = killsession } },
Received on Tue Oct 06 2009 - 16:57:56 UTC