Re: [dwm] Displaying status info

You made it more complex, I made it more simple now:

---snip from README---
splaying status info
----------------------
In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
in .xinitrc:

    while true
    do
        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
        sleep 2
    done | dwm

---
Regards,
	Anselm
PS: However the problem is still there, that you need to wait 2
seconds until X server shuts down (but I rarely restart X and
now we don't waste yet another process idling around)...
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a hint: if you follow the example from the README to display some
> info in the bar, you'll have to wait for up to 5 seconds - i.e. for
> as long as your script sleep(1)s - after quitting dwm until the X
> server shuts down. And if your script traps SIGPIPE you'll wait forever
> ;-)
> 
> To avoid this delay, I'm using the following script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh -e
> 
> [ $# -eq 1 ]; FIFO="$1"
> [ -e "$FIFO" ] || mkfifo "$FIFO"
> [ -p "$FIFO" ]
> exec >"$FIFO" 2>&1
> 
> while :; do
>         printf '%s | %s\n' \
> 	    "$(uptime | sed 's/^.*load averages: /load avg: /')" \
> 	    "$(date '+%a, %b %d, %H:%M')"
> 	sleep 10
> done
> 
> exit 1 # NOTREACHED
> 
> 
> I start dwm from ~/.xinitrc (~/.dwm/in.sh is the script above):
> 
> fifo=~/.dwm/in
> ~/.dwm/in.sh $fifo &
> exec <$fifo
> dwm &
> wmpid=$!
> [...]
> wait $wmpid
> 
> 
> Cheers, Jukka
> 
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> 
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