On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:24:55PM +0200, am...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:55:08 +0200, Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.di...@eia.be> > > wrote: > > > >> why not just: > >> dwm > >> kill $statuspid > >> > >> I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it. > >> What did I miss? > > > > Nothing; backgrounding dwm was left from trying a few other ways to do it. > > Thank you. > > Then it can be simplified further: > > > > while true; do > > xsetroot -name ... > > sleep 1 > > done & > > dwm > > kill $! > > > > the following works for me: > > while xsetroot -name "$(date +"%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M")" > do > sleep 20 > done & > exec dwm > > Andreas
That's quite nice. I usually run a script instead of "hardcoding" the title in there... > > I wonder whether the README should be updated accordingly. But it is there > > for years and nobody seemed to notice before. I attach the trivial patch, > > just in case. > > > > -- > > Thomas Dahms > > > -- Petr 'contyk' Sabata, Red Hat
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