James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:42:24AM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
> > 
> > but then you probably have to wait one minute when you want to
> > shutdown (Alt-q) dwm.
> > 
> > (At least it was like this in earlier releases - I dont know about
> > the current ones.)
> 
> That why you can do something like add:
> 
> while true
> do
>     echo `date "+%m/%d %H%M"` > $HOME/.dwm/dwm_status
>     sleep 60
> done
> 
> to a dwm_run script that writes to a fifo, then in .xinitrc pipe it into
> dwm.  No more waiting for the sleep loop to finish to exit dwm.
> 
> [ -p $HOME/.dwm/dwm_status ] || mkfifo $HOME/.dwm/dwm_status
> sh $HOME/.dwm/dwm_run &
> exec dwm < $HOME/.dwm/dwm_status

ahh, nice to learn :-)

thx


meillo

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