Guillaume Quintin <coincoin1...@gmail.com> writes:
> Neale Pickett, where are you in your investigations ? Could be X the
> problem ?
I stopped my investigation when Anselm accepted the xprop patch. Now
status scripts will be just another background process with an X
connection (like xterm), and there should be no need to worry about open
FDs or whatever.
Guillaume, I was under the impression that your specific problem had to
do with something in your OS's X package. I think you're going to find
the next dwm release makes the problem go away (after you convert your
status script).
> Anselm, if you don't like popen, then take Jeremy's runScript function.
This little bourne shell script may give you the behavior you desire:
#! /bin/sh
while true; do
sleep 2
xsetroot -name "$(myscript)" || exit 0
done
Neale
