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[dwm.git] / README

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@@ -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


@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@ 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):
 
 
 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
 necessary as root):
 

+    cp config.default.h config.h

     make clean install
 
 
     make clean install
 
 


@@ -30,27 +31,18 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
 
     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
 
 
     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
 

-This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
+(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

 
 

+In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
+like this in your .xinitrc:

 
 

-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:
-
-    #!/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.