On Nov 2, 2007 10:02 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm, if that's the reason I tend to write a read()-based getline
> function which does not block ;)

Try doing this:

for i in `seq 1 10`
do
    echo -n bla
    if test "$i" = 5
    then
        echo
    fi
    sleep 3
done | dwm

Than dwm will be unresponsive for a while, after some time it'll
update the statustext as "blablablablabla" and continue to be
unresponsive.

Greetings, Sander.

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