2008/12/14 Michael Brown <[email protected]>:
> Maybe a silly question, but is any p9p user out there able to set the
> statusbar text with xsetroot using rc(1)?
Did you check if
xsetroot -name foobar
works at all? If not something might be wrong with the DISPLAY variable.
> The following don't seem to work:
> xsetroot -name `{SCRIPT}
> xsetroot -name "`{SCRIPT}"
> xsetroot -name "(`{SCRIPT})"
The first one is correct. Try something like
xsetroot -name `{date}^" "^`{uptime}
for example.
Kind regards,
--Anselm
