Re: [dev] [wmii] Prevent losing of windows on crash/hang

> while true; do
> � � � �exec wmii
> � � � �xmessage 'Restart the Window Manager?' \
> � � � � � � � � -buttons 'Yes:1,No:0' -center \
> � � � � � � � � -default 'Yes' -timeout 30 � �\
> � � � �&& break
> done
>
>
> Fortunately, that script does not prompt me if I want to restart wmii
> if if closes/crashes. The result is that all my windows (and my work) is
> gone.

You're using exec, once that line is reached, bash replaces itself with wmii.
Just use "wmii" instead, or even:

wmii || xmessage "Restart..."
that way (assuming wmii returns 0 on successful exit) when you mean to
exit, it's all fine.
Received on Sun Oct 17 2010 - 14:01:35 CEST