cleaned config.*h to prevent some confusion

[dwm.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 22d386e..8781cd8 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dwm - dynamic window manager
 ----------------------------
 dwm - dynamic window manager
 ----------------------------

-dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.

 
 
 Requirements
 
 
 Requirements


@@ -10,14 +10,19 @@ In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
 
 Installation
 ------------
 
 Installation
 ------------

-Edit config.mk to match your local setup. dwm is installed into
-the /usr/local namespace by default.
+Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
+the /usr/local namespace by default).

 
 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
 necessary as root):
 
     make clean install
 
 
 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
 necessary as root):
 
     make clean install
 

+If you want to use a customized config.h, you can use the following
+command for installing dwm:
+
+    make CONFIG=<your-config>.h clean install
+

 
 Running dwm
 -----------
 
 Running dwm
 -----------


@@ -35,22 +40,16 @@ This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
 
 Displaying status info
 ----------------------
 
 Displaying status info
 ----------------------

-In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
-in .xinitrc:
-
-    $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm
-
-Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like:
+In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
+like this in your .xinitrc:

 
 

-    #!/bin/sh

     while true
     do
         echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
     while true
     do
         echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`

-        sleep 5
-    done
+        sleep 1
+    done | dwm

 
 
 Configuration
 -------------
 
 
 Configuration
 -------------

-The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
-grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.
+The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.