Re: [dwm] C-version of dwm status (no xsetroot needed)

2008-12-19 Thread Jeremy Jay
On Tue 16 Dec 2008 - 04:08PM, Donald Chai wrote: use his status program. His intent is that anyone who can't figure out xsetroot can use 4 X11 procedures from C. actually my intent was to get away from bash scripts/whatnot and having to use so many different programs to generate a status line.

Re: [dwm] C-version of dwm status (no xsetroot needed)

2008-12-19 Thread Neale Pickett
Jeremy Jay dinkuma...@gmail.com writes: Anyways, here's my finished dwm status code. Nice. I've written something very similar, but mine relies more on the shell and having to use lots of programs. I wanted to create an extensible tool that you could use as the foundation of a shell script

Re: [dwm] C-version of dwm status (no xsetroot needed)

2008-12-16 Thread Guillaume Quintin
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:38:17 -0500 Jeremy Jay dinkuma...@gmail.com wrote: Here's some simple C code I wrote to handle setting the xprop without using xsetroot. At the moment it just spawns the same shell scripts I used before, but it may be useful for those having issues with xsetroot...

Re: [dwm] C-version of dwm status (no xsetroot needed)

2008-12-16 Thread Neale Pickett
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