s/tail recursion/tail call/
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [dev] dwm taskbar config
> From: "Wolf Tivy" <w...@tivy.com>
> Date: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:17 pm
> To: "dev mail list" <dev@suckless.org>
>
>
> > "like this in your .xinitrc:
> >
> > while true
> > do
> > xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
> > sleep 1
> > done &
> > exec dwm
>
> That's what you want, put that wherever your DM expects it.
> This thread is a train wreck of confusion, ignore everything but that
> script.
>
> As for putting exec in loops, it destroys the whole process.
> exec is the goto or tail recursion of shell scripts. In this case,
> you can safely not use the exec, it's just a quick hack to save one
> process.
>
> > I wish there would be a good howto about this stuff, so that regular users
> > could benefit from it.
>
> dwm isn't really for regular users; it's for competent hackers. No howto
> necessary;
> you'll know what you need to do when you learn shell scripting and
> figure out what
> scripts are getting called to set up your X session (usually one of:
> .xinitrc, .xsession,
> dwm.desktop, etc).
>
> Good luck!
>
> /wolf
