Re: [dev] exiting dwm correctly

2011/6/29 ilf <ilf_AT_zeromail.org>:
> On 06-28 20:49, Thomas Dahms wrote:
>>
>> There was a thread about properly terminating the loop that updates your
>> status bar [1].
>
> We discussed a lot, but did we reach an agreement?

Do we have to?

> The README part still sais:
>
>    41     while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
>    42     do
>    43          sleep 20
>    44     done &
>    45     exec dwm
>
> http://hg.suckless.org/dwm/file/ac3cba181282/README#l25

Which is different than before the discussion and cleanly exits the
while loop, because xsetroot fails without a display.
Thuban asked to kill more than one program, which cannot be achieved
in the same way.

-- 
Thomas Dahms