Multiple wm .xinitrc

[sk8harddiefast]

I have dwm & fluxbox. How can I make .xinitrc to ask me witch one I want to choose?

 

[klanger]

Slim, kdm, gdm, xdm?

Or

ee

& commenting out (#) alternative window manager before

startx

 

[rusty]

Could use something like this in your .xinitrc, it won't ask which but you can just type startx (or xinit) dwm/fluxbox.

case $1 in
fluxbox)
  # fluxbox specific stuff &
  exec ck-launch-session fluxbox
  ;;
dwm)
  # dwm specific stuff &
  exec ck-launch-session dwm
  ;;
*)
  # a default wm in here
  ;;
esac

 

[EdGe]

If you want to start different WM from command line, why not define aliases in
your login shell's configuration file instead of complicating things with .xinitrc?

 

[sk8harddiefast]

This did the job for me:

if [[ $1 == "fluxbox" ]]
then
  exec startfluxbox
elif [[ $1 == "dwm" ]]
then
  exec dwm
else
  echo "Choose a window manager"
fi

#fbsetroot -solid black
#exec conky &
#exec ipager &
#exec fluxbox

while true;
do
   xsetroot -name  ["$(date +"%a %b %d %r")"]
   sleep 1s
   fbsetbg -f /home/emberdaemon/Downloads/37826-black-rock-shooter-hatsune-miku-tagme-vocaloid.jpg
done &
#exec conky &
exec dwm

But I am commenting (#)

 

[vermaden]

if [[ $1 == "fluxbox" ]]
then
  exec startfluxbox
elif [[ $1 == "dwm" ]]
then
  exec dwm
else
  echo "Choose a window manager"
fi

Isn't that simpler?

case ${1} in
  (fluxbox) startfluxbox ;;
  (dwm)     dwm ;;
  (*)       echo "Choose a window manager" ;;
esac

while true;
do
   xsetroot -name  ["$(date +"%a %b %d %r")"]
   sleep 1s
   fbsetbg -f /home/emberdaemon/Downloads/37826-black-rock-shooter-hatsune-miku-tagme-vocaloid.jpg
done &

Why You are setting the same wallpaper every 1 second?

Its definitely not needed ... it should be like that:

fbsetbg -f /home/emberdaemon/Downloads/37826-black-rock-shooter-hatsune-miku-tagme-vocaloid.jpg

exec dwm

... and at the end You are AGAIN starting dwm, no matter what the choice at the beginning was, this script is pure mess mate.

It should look like that:

#! /bin/sh

fbsetbg -f /home/emberdaemon/Downloads/37826-black-rock-shooter-hatsune-miku-tagme-vocaloid.jpg &
conky &

case ${1} in
  (fluxbox) startfluxbox ;;
  (dwm)     dwm ;;
  (*)       echo "Choose a window manager" ;;
esac

 

[sk8harddiefast]

Because I want to rescan every 1 second to be changed the seconds on clock

 

[Beastie]

Use conky instead of looping many operations, every second, indefinitely. Or use x11-clocks/xclock, which works in both analog and digital mode.

 

[sk8harddiefast]

I would like to remove conky and do it like this: http://dwm.suckless.org/screenshots/dwm-20101101.png (bar on top) but I don't know how.

 

[Beastie]

The while loop (that uses xsetroot) you have in the .xinitrc file above should work then.

 

[nekoexmachina]

I would like to remove conky and do it like this: http://dwm.suckless.org/screenshots/dwm-20101101.png (bar on top) but I don't know how.

I do not know how to achive that with dwm's bar, but you can do that easily with dzen2.
http://sites.google.com/site/gotmor/dzen

37826-black-rock-shooter-hatsune-miku-tagme-vocaloid.jpg

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May be you will be interested: script to download all the wpprs from konachan with the tag $TAG
http://nopaste.info/cee56adf98.html
used, like, python ./script $TAG

 

[sk8harddiefast]

I never understood how dzen2 work

 

[Beastie]

I do not know how to achive that with dwm's bar

Look at the post above yours. It's nothing more than a detached (&) while loop that displays whatever you want (`date str?time blabla`, etc.) on the root window through xsetroot or similar and sleep()s the delay you want until the next turn. Nothing simpler.

 

[nekoexmachina]

Look at the post above yours

I've meant the icons on the bar, not the text.

I never understood how dzen2 work

Just like the post above, with some format options, e.g. while loop/conky/whatever with text & bitmap path & fonts & colors info formatted in dzen's format.