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Diffstat (limited to '.local/bin/dwmbar')
| -rwxr-xr-x | .local/bin/dwmbar | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/.local/bin/dwmbar b/.local/bin/dwmbar index 501ae6a..3f4a0ba 100755 --- a/.local/bin/dwmbar +++ b/.local/bin/dwmbar @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ # This script sets the statusbar with the xsetroot command at the end. Have it # started by ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xprofile. +# Handle SIGTRAP signals sent by refbar to update the status bar immediately. +trap 'update' 5 + # Set the deliminter character. delim="|" @@ -66,20 +69,28 @@ status() { \ date '+%Y %b %d (%a) %I:%M%p' } -while :; do +update() { \ # So all that big status function was just a command that quicking gets # what we want to be the statusbar. This xsetroot command is what sets # it. Note that the tr command replaces newlines with spaces. This is # to prevent some weird issues that cause significant slowing of # everything in dwm. Note entirely sure of the cause, but again, the tr # command easily avoids it. - xsetroot -name "$(status | tr '\n' ' ')" + xsetroot -name "$(status | tr '\n' ' ')" & + wait # Check to see if new weather report is needed. testweather & + wait + } + +while :; do + update # Sleep for a minute after changing the status bar before updating it - # again. Note that the `refbar` "refreshes" the statusbar by killing - # this command. Feel free to change the time interval if you want. - sleep 1m + # again. We run sleep in the background and use wait until it finishes, + # because traps can interrupt wait immediately, but they can't do that + # with sleep. + sleep 1m & + wait done |