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jting

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Registered: 2014-10-24

Posts: 11

Using dwmstatus instead of xsetroot in dwm

Hi everyone! First post here (after struggling with registration because it turns out you need to be on UTC time, and I'm in UTC+10 on DST at the moment @__@)!

I just got started using Arch 2 weeks ago and happily using dwm - but I was trying to figure out how to use dwmstatus (where everything goes and how to tie it together with existing compilation). I've tried adding the files through git into the root ~/dwm folder, installing it through AUR, (both times recompiling with makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD and makepkg -efi) but my dwm bar still shows the plain ol' dwm-6.0.

They work fine via the xsetroot method, but I wanted to have it working in C (and try and customise things with color and add in conky output later on) - could anyone point me in the right direction for this?

Thanks in advance

ids1024

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From: California

Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 243

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Re: Using dwmstatus instead of xsetroot in dwm

Just run the "dwmstatus" command.

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