[dwm] Restart Patch - No more loops

[stark]

dwm-6.1-restart.diff at GitHub

NOTE: I have only tested this against dwm-6.1

Get the patch:

wget -q ow.ly/HndrO -O dwm-6.1-restart.diff

Hand Patch it.

Then add the following to your config.h ( inside static Key keys[], preferably above the actual quit keybinding )

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{ MODKEY|ShiftMask,             XK_r,      quit,           {1} },

[Dr_Chroot]

^ He lives. 7 days... 7 long days since stark has posted... But thanks for the patch :D I just removed dwm from my older Arch install, dang it. I was thinking that I might eventually toss Slackware 14.1 on a 20GB partition; might play with dwm some on that, use the patch there :) It was always irritating to have to restart X.org if I wanted to restart dwm, though, so this will be fantastic!

[stark]

Lol, I got caught up in work but I came by sometimes but didn't have anything interesting to post about so kept my troll fingers off the keyboard :)

And didn't you load dwm in a loop before ?

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#Start dwm in a loop ( a hack to restart dwm without closing X applications )
while true; do
	# Log stderror to a file 
	dwm 2> $HOME/.logs/dwm.log
	# No error logging
	#dwm >/dev/null 2>&1
done

[Dr_Chroot]

Lol, I got caught up in work but I came by sometimes but didn't have anything interesting to post about so kept my troll fingers off the keyboard :)

Haha, that is fine. I should probably focus on my education a little more, as I have a lot on my plate. I didn't do so hot in the last semester, so I am trying to hit this one hard... I was originally doing three classes (12 credits here) as Biology was 6 credit and involved a lot of memorization, which is something I suck at. Nonetheless, yesterday I picked up a Tuesday/Saturday "Philosophy & Contemporary Ideas", as I thought that something of that nature would be a nice break in between memorizing the confounded protoplasmic reticulum junk :P I already regretted picking it up when I looked at the reading list this morning as I was walking to the library; at least I will get to read some more of my boy, Kierkegaard. (He would've made a decent punk rocker, that angsty SOB)

Edit: For clarification, I am doing this leg of general education online (although I am temporarily on a college campus in Florida, which provides me access to a nice library) so that flexibility is probably too... flexible. I spend far too much time on Spotify, Reddit, etc. I should probably go read through the GTD, Pomodoro thread again -_-

And didn't you load dwm in a loop before ?

You know, I am not exactly quite sure. I did that Arch install back in Sept. of 2013, so I am trying to remember what I had configured on that dwm. All I know is that I was unable to restart dwm if I made a change to the configs, at least unless I restarted X.org. Did I misunderstand the nature of your patch?

[stark]

Looks like you're working very hard, atleast to me :) and at the same time having fun ;)

And this patch is not written by me at all! The author is unknown but its hosted by another author who has written a lot of great patches for dwm. Dwm doesn't provide any restart functionality, you'd either load it in a loop as mentioned in the Arch Wiki or write the function yourself or use someone else's patch. Back then you must have been using dwm-6.0 ( alot of people still use it as majority of the patches works with it ) there is a selfrestart patch for dwm-6.0 which is quite big compared to this one and is not posix compliant so i don't know if it will work under BSDs or other OS'es. This one will work with the latest commit of dwm so no need to use a loop or logging out of X :)