> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:55:08 +0200, Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.di...@eia.be> > wrote: > >> why not just: >> dwm >> kill $statuspid >> >> I see no use in backgrounding dwm, and then waiting for it. >> What did I miss? > > Nothing; backgrounding dwm was left from trying a few other ways to do it. > Thank you. > Then it can be simplified further: > > while true; do > xsetroot -name ... > sleep 1 > done & > dwm > kill $! >
the following works for me: while xsetroot -name "$(date +"%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M")" do sleep 20 done & exec dwm Andreas > I wonder whether the README should be updated accordingly. But it is there > for years and nobody seemed to notice before. I attach the trivial patch, > just in case. > > -- > Thomas Dahms