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I'm having some trouble starting pywal through .xinitrc
Currently my .xinitrc is:
exec dwm
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
Anyone know what I could have messed up?
x11 startx xinit
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
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I'm having some trouble starting pywal through .xinitrc
Currently my .xinitrc is:
exec dwm
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
Anyone know what I could have messed up?
x11 startx xinit
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
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add a comment |
I'm having some trouble starting pywal through .xinitrc
Currently my .xinitrc is:
exec dwm
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
Anyone know what I could have messed up?
x11 startx xinit
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
61
I'm having some trouble starting pywal through .xinitrc
Currently my .xinitrc is:
exec dwm
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
Anyone know what I could have messed up?
x11 startx xinit
x11 startx xinit
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
61
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
61
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
edited Dec 15 at 18:55
Rui F Ribeiro
38.9k1479129
38.9k1479129
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
61
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
61
asked Dec 15 at 18:36
Joe
61
61
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On exec dwm, the shell process that is executing the .xinitrc script will be replaced with dwm, and so any commands in .xinitrc after that will be totally ignored.
Will it work if you just swap the order of those two lines?
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
exec dwm
Or does this have some undesirable side effects, like flickering as the window manager starts up? If so, you'll need to find some way to have dwm run the wal ... command, as the .xinitrc script interpreter process simply won't exist any more after exec dwm is executed.
answered Dec 15 at 19:01
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On exec dwm, the shell process that is executing the .xinitrc script will be replaced with dwm, and so any commands in .xinitrc after that will be totally ignored.
Will it work if you just swap the order of those two lines?
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
exec dwm
Or does this have some undesirable side effects, like flickering as the window manager starts up? If so, you'll need to find some way to have dwm run the wal ... command, as the .xinitrc script interpreter process simply won't exist any more after exec dwm is executed.
answered Dec 15 at 19:01
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On exec dwm, the shell process that is executing the .xinitrc script will be replaced with dwm, and so any commands in .xinitrc after that will be totally ignored.
Will it work if you just swap the order of those two lines?
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
exec dwm
Or does this have some undesirable side effects, like flickering as the window manager starts up? If so, you'll need to find some way to have dwm run the wal ... command, as the .xinitrc script interpreter process simply won't exist any more after exec dwm is executed.
answered Dec 15 at 19:01
telcoM
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On exec dwm, the shell process that is executing the .xinitrc script will be replaced with dwm, and so any commands in .xinitrc after that will be totally ignored.
Will it work if you just swap the order of those two lines?
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
exec dwm
Or does this have some undesirable side effects, like flickering as the window manager starts up? If so, you'll need to find some way to have dwm run the wal ... command, as the .xinitrc script interpreter process simply won't exist any more after exec dwm is executed.
answered Dec 15 at 19:01
telcoM
15.7k12143
On exec dwm, the shell process that is executing the .xinitrc script will be replaced with dwm, and so any commands in .xinitrc after that will be totally ignored.
Will it work if you just swap the order of those two lines?
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
exec dwm
Or does this have some undesirable side effects, like flickering as the window manager starts up? If so, you'll need to find some way to have dwm run the wal ... command, as the .xinitrc script interpreter process simply won't exist any more after exec dwm is executed.
answered Dec 15 at 19:01
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