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

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