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[dwm.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 07bbd08..135c066 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dwm - dynamic window manager
-----------------------------
-dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
+============================
+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@ Installation
 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
 the /usr/local namespace by default).
 
-Afterwards enter the following commands to build and install dwm (if
+Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
 necessary as root):
 
-    cp config.default.h config.h
     make clean install
 
+If you are going to use the default bluegray color scheme it is highly
+recommended to also install the bluegray files shipped in the dextra package.
+
 
 Running dwm
 -----------
@@ -38,11 +40,13 @@ like this in your .xinitrc:
 
     while true
     do
-        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
+        xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
         sleep 1
-    done | dwm
+    done &
+    exec dwm
 
 
 Configuration
 -------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.
+The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.