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1 setstatus |
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4 Description |
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6 Enables to set the status with dwm itself. No more xsetroot bloat! |
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7 To change the status to `foo bar` execute: |
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9 dwm -s "foo bar" |
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11 You can set the status with this command even if dwm is already running … |
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12 wm. It will start a new process, set the status and exit. The parameter … |
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13 not meant to be used at startup when you launch dwm as your wm. |
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15 Piping into `dwm -s` is currently not supported but you can set the |
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16 status to the output of any command by doing something like: |
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18 dwm -s "$(run_command_which_outputs_the_status)" |
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20 For example to set the status to the current date run: |
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22 dwm -s "$(date)" |
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24 Download |
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26 * [dwm-setstatus-6.2.diff](dwm-setstatus-6.2.diff) |
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28 Author |
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30 * Aleksandrs Stier - <[email protected]> (6.2) |
