On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:20:13PM +0200, Thomas Dahms wrote: > Hi list, > > The following fixes the problem: > > while true; do > xsetroot -name ... > sleep 1 > done & statuspid=$! > dwm & > wait $! > kill $statuspid why not just: dwm kill $statuspid
I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it. What did I miss? Kurt Van Dijck