Re: [dev] [dwm] terminating the status loop

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:55:08 +0200, Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck_AT_eia.be>
> wrote:
>
>> why not just:
>> dwm
>> kill $statuspid
>>
>> I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it.
>> What did I miss?
>
> Nothing; backgrounding dwm was left from trying a few other ways to do it.
> Thank you.
> Then it can be simplified further:
>
> while true; do
> xsetroot -name ...
> sleep 1
> done &
> dwm
> kill $!
>

the following works for me:

while xsetroot -name "$(date +"%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M")"
do
    sleep 20
done &
exec dwm

Andreas
> I wonder whether the README should be updated accordingly. But it is there
> for years and nobody seemed to notice before. I attach the trivial patch,
> just in case.
>
> --
> Thomas Dahms
Received on Wed Apr 27 2011 - 17:24:55 CEST