Re: [dwm] [PATCH] An experiment with X resources

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:24:28PM +0200, WyrmSkull wrote:
>
> Is there a way to make dwm execute commands at runtime
> through standard input? Would that be too complex?
> All functions should be there, it's just a matter
> of parsing user input.
>
> echo "set_statusbar string" | dwm
> normal behavior
>
> echo "tag XTerm,1,2,5" | dwm
> XTerm gets tags 1,2,5
>
> DWM restart problem would be solved: you could save
> current state in a .dwmrc, then "cat .dwmrc" | dwm

That's exactly the proposal I had sometime ago, but it scares me
that it will bring unecessary complexity.

Regards,

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