On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:24:25AM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.di...@eia.be> wrote: > > I missed (and still do not see) > > how to make xsetroot(1) read from stdin, line by line. > > xsetroot -name "`my_commands_that_write_to_stdout`" > > > That's why (I thought) that scripts spawn xsetroot(1) each time. > > They wouldn't need to run your C program each time?
it would do $ while true; do my_commands_that_write_to_stdout; done | stdin2xroot as a replacement, and when my_commands_that_write_to_stdout would be a single program that emits a line every now & then, you would not spawn processes at all. That indeed is the only advantage of my program :-) > > --Andrew Hills >
