Re: [dwm] .xinitrc error?

From a previous discussion on the mailing list:

> I just downloaded dwm-5.4.1 and noticed that stdin-to-statusbar output
> mechanism was removed. Sadly, I don't seem to remember any discussion
about
> that. Was there any? If not, what are the reasons for this removal?

Bumped into the same problem today. You set the status bar using the
root windows title property now.

xsetroot -title <text>

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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Christoph Siegenthaler <csi_AT_gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I haven't changed my dwm config.h since 4.9 and was using it happily for
> months. I finally decided to try out 5.4.1 and I'm almost done.
> The only problem is that I can't get the status bar to display what's piped
> into dwm. It was working before and displayed a lot of fancy stuff.
> I stripped it down to the bare minimum now but it still displays dwm-5.4.1
> instead of what I want it to:
>
> $ cat .xinitrc
> #!/bin/sh
> #######
> # DWM #
> #######
> timeout=0.2
> while true
>   do
>       echo "Test"
>       sleep $timeout
>   done | dwm | eval `cat ~/.fehbg`
>
> What do I miss here? I'm sure it's something obvious (far somebody else but
> me)...
>
> Best regards, Chris
>
>