Bash: infinite sleep

Question

I use startx to start X which will evaluate my .xinitrc. In my .xinitrc I start my window manager using /usr/bin/mywm. Now, if I kill my WM (in order to f.e. test some other WM), X will terminate too because the .xinitrc script reached EOF. So I added this at the end of my .xinitrc:

while true; do sleep 10000; done

This way X won't terminate if I kill my WM. Now my question: how can I do an infinite sleep instead of looping sleep? Is there a command which will kinda like freeze the script?

Best regards

Answer 1

A possible solution around a wait command waiting for a non terminating process:

yes > /dev/null & pid=$!
wait $pid

Answer 2

Maybe this seems ugly, but why not just run cat and let it wait for input forever?

Answer 3

Instead of killing the window manager, try running the new one with --replace or -replace if available.