On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:24:28PM +0200, WyrmSkull wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to make dwm execute commands at runtime
> through standard input? Would that be too complex?
> All functions should be there, it's just a matter
> of parsing user input.
> 
> echo "set_statusbar string" | dwm
> normal behavior
> 
> echo "tag XTerm,1,2,5" | dwm
> XTerm gets tags 1,2,5
> 
> DWM restart problem would be solved: you could save
> current state in a .dwmrc, then "cat .dwmrc" | dwm

That's exactly the proposal I had sometime ago, but it scares me
that it will bring unecessary complexity.

Regards,
-- 
 Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361

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