I use GDM as window manager and have dwm installed recently as a session in addition to gnome. everything suckless.
I have two questions:
- I use .xprofile to start scripts and things like nitrogen etc. it seems to work, is that ok? I don’t use .xinitrc which seems to be described in most tutorials. Is that bad habit? Here is an example of my script, I think I can omit the bash preamble…
#! /bin/bash
while true; do
xsetroot -name "$(date)"
sleep 1m # Update time every minute
done &
# Autostart section
st &
nitrogen --restore &
autorandr --change &
picom &
slstatus &
- I like to restart dwm in place, like I would respawn in i3wm or qtile when I change a config. I found the following script in the arch wiki but it says it should be put in .xinitrc. Can I do that in .xprofile too since I use gdm?
while true; do
# Log stderror to a file
dwm 2> ~/.dwm.log
# No error logging
#dwm >/dev/null 2>&1
done
and then I would set pkill dwm as a keybinding to logout of my session, correct?