From 1c60cb9771d5092f1c48f0ceea9f1b94ad9e887f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Phillips <ewpt3ch@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 21:12:29 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] initial commit of new dwmstart and dwmstatus

---
 dwm-start.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
 dwmstatus.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 dwm-start.sh
 create mode 100755 dwmstatus.sh

diff --git a/dwm-start.sh b/dwm-start.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7b714d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dwm-start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Script to start dwm in loop
+
+while true; do
+		$HOME/bin/dwmstatus
+    	sleep 2
+done &
+
+while true; do
+	dwm >/dev/null
+	# to log stderrors to a file 
+	# dwm 2> ~/Build/dwm/dwm.log
+done 
diff --git a/dwmstatus.sh b/dwmstatus.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ce563e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dwmstatus.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# status script for dwm
+# influenced by:
+# https://bitbucket.org/jasonwryan/shiv/Scripts/dwm-status
+# https://github.com/w0ng/bin/blob/master/dwm-statusbar
+########################
+## eric@ewpt3ch.com ####
+## dwmstatus ###########
+########################
+# colors:
+
+dte(){
+  dte="$(date "+%I:%M")"
+  echo -e "\x02$dte\x01"
+}
+
+# Pipe to statusbar
+xsetroot -name "$(dte) "