stdin

Description

This backports dwm’s old behaviour found in pre-5.3 releases to read the status text from stdin. It’s a matter of personal preference, adds a few LOC, is less prone to freezing (in my experience) and included here for the sake of completeness.

Download

dwm-r1533-stdin.diff

Author

This was originally part of dwm-5.2 and written by Anselm R. Garbe, but the one to blame for the backport is Moritz Wilhelmy, who can be reached by writing a mail to moritz plus dwm at wzff dot de.