A friend of mine wrote the following shell code to display the date after
the window title.
while true
do
echo [`date +'%a %d %b %H:%M'`]
sleep 2
done | while true; do dwm; done
I was wondering if someone could point me to how i can manipulate the
drawbar() function to achieve the same result.
After some digging around i figured what to do to draw text in the
status area, so i wrote a simple clock using threads. I can't
understand though why the clock doesn't get updated sometimes even
though i call drawbar() directly from the thread run method...
Any help would be appreciated, and also
Hulloh,
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:35:03PM +0300, John Mpanos wrote:
After some digging around i figured what to do to draw text in the
status area, so i wrote a simple clock using threads. I can't
understand though why the clock doesn't get updated sometimes even
though i call drawbar()
You swhouldn't need to mess with drawbar() for this. Just put these
shell lines in your ${HOME}/.xinitrc . Mine looks like this :
while true
do
echo `date +%m/%d %H%M`
sleep 60
done | dwm
(you only need to pole date once a minute for as accurate as you are
getting)
-J
On Jul 10,
