2008/12/9 Neale Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I very much like this patch. I realized right away that I would never > again need to restart dwm when I work on my status script. When it > dies, I can just start it up again without restarting DWM. Someone > could even have multiple programs running to update the status text. It > removes the need for the "readin" variable: you either set the property > or you don't.
I dislike X properties, however I like your patch a lot and consider it making mainstream, since it simplifies dwm a lot and fixes a lot of issues. dwm depends on X anyways, so for the status text mechanism to happen, it's the simpler method. > This would be 40 if the property were hard coded to XA_WM_NAME. I left > in a comment to use a property named "DWM_STATUS" instead of XA_WM_NAME, > so people could play with it easily, but I think XA_WM_NAME is > ultimately the right way to do it. XA_WM_NAME is the way to go. Kind regards, --Anselm
