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1 setstatus 2 ========= 3 4 Description 5 ----------- 6 Enables to set the status with dwm itself. No more xsetroot bloat! 7 To change the status to `foo bar` execute: 8 9 dwm -s "foo bar" 10 11 You can set the status with this command even if dwm is already running as your 12 wm. It will start a new process, set the status and exit. The parameter `-s` is 13 not meant to be used at startup when you launch dwm as your wm. 14 15 Piping into `dwm -s` is currently not supported but you can set the 16 status to the output of any command by doing something like: 17 18 dwm -s "$(run_command_which_outputs_the_status)" 19 20 For example to set the status to the current date run: 21 22 dwm -s "$(date)" 23 24 Download 25 -------- 26 * [dwm-setstatus-6.2.diff](dwm-setstatus-6.2.diff) 27 28 Author 29 ------ 30 * Aleksandrs Stier - <aleks.stier@icloud.com> (6.2)