DWM refresh without restart xorg/dwm

Question

So every now and then an application I run will resize my screen resolution against my will. Thats all well and dandy, but it screws up DWM as you can see by this screenshot. My question is, is there a way to refresh dwm or to get it back somehow? Its kind of annoying.
Last edited by qpfiffer (2012-03-27 11:20:44)

Answer 1

jasonwryan wrote:a) which applications do this, and b) how you generate your statusbar.
Interestingly enough toggling the status bar does not help. It just hides the status bar, and then when I bring it back the black un-refreshed chunk of the bar is still there.
a) Its usually wine applications that decide to resize the screen to some default value.
b) I guess by "generate", here is my .xinitc:
#!/bin/bash
eval $(cat ~/.fehbg) &
#google-musicmanager &
imwheel & # Because chromium scrolls like a fucking dead person
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/steam.exe &
pidgin &
/usr/bin/dropbox start &
chromium-browser &
while true
do
LOCALTIME=$(date)
xsetroot -name "$LOCALTIME"
sleep 5s
done &
exec dwm
I think I'll adopt the looping dwm thing and see if that helps.