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Bretwalda

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Registered: 2022-02-04

Posts: 2

[SOLVED]Getting the xsetroot unrecognized argument error.

I have tried many things but it cannot seem to change my status bar it just stays the same so I tried a vanilla argument to see if it worked so I used:

xsetroot -name myname

and it worked so I thought lets try it with the date now

xsetroot -name $(date)

but then it throws this error:

xsetroot: unrecognized argument 'Feb'

and I don't even know at this point what should I do to make I work.

Last edited by Bretwalda (2022-02-04 06:07:19)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,679

Re: [SOLVED]Getting the xsetroot unrecognized argument error.

Did you try

xsetroot -name "$(date)"

Bretwalda

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Registered: 2022-02-04

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]Getting the xsetroot unrecognized argument error.

Did you try

xsetroot -name "$(date)"

Thanks that has worked.