On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:50:45PM +0800, Wu, Yue wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:08:09PM -0700, Scytrin dai Kinthra wrote: > > use `xsetroot -name <status>` as dwm's status bar contents are now > > derived from the name attribute of the root window. > > It's a good thing, as you no longer need to play the pipe game. > > It's a pain that I have to install an extra software to achieve this simple > thing. :(
It's part of the main Xorg distribution, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to have it.