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commit 4b3fcb045de9742ead9e474c69f469ecd206859d
parent c577c2614e79ff5e15d716690efce7d3cca2b5f9
Author: Aleksandrs Stier <aleks.stier@icloud.com>
Date:   Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:03:13 +0200

[dwm][status_monitor|tutorial] mention xprop as an alternative to xsetroot

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dwm.suckless.org/status_monitor/index.md
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diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/status_monitor/index.md b/dwm.suckless.org/status_monitor/index.md
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ It can be easily set and retrieved using standard Unix tools.
 	xprop -root -notype -f WM_NAME "8u" \
 		| sed -n -r 's/WM_NAME = \"(.*)\"/\1/p'
 
+Alternatively, instead of xsetroot also xprop can be used to set the
+status-bar-text.
+
+	xprop -root -set WM_NAME $status
+
 Set The Status Using A Shell Script
 -----------------------------------
 	while true; do
diff --git a/dwm.suckless.org/tutorial/index.md b/dwm.suckless.org/tutorial/index.md
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ Using the tools of X.org, this can be set using:
 
 	% xsetroot -name "Some Text"
 
+or
+
+	% xprop -root -set WM_NAME "Some Text"
+
 There are various tools and methods to populate this text with useful
 information from your system or services running on your system. A barebone for
 doing this in C is [dwmstatus](../status_monitor/). See the