2011/6/29 ilf <i...@zeromail.org>: > On 06-28 20:49, Thomas Dahms wrote: >> >> There was a thread about properly terminating the loop that updates your >> status bar [1]. > > We discussed a lot, but did we reach an agreement?
Do we have to? > The README part still sais: > > 41 while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" > 42 do > 43 sleep 20 > 44 done & > 45 exec dwm > > http://hg.suckless.org/dwm/file/ac3cba181282/README#l25 Which is different than before the discussion and cleanly exits the while loop, because xsetroot fails without a display. Thuban asked to kill more than one program, which cannot be achieved in the same way. -- Thomas Dahms
