some cleanups/fixes inspired by Jukka Salmi's feedback

[dwm.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index a17b82a..89f7dba 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 dwm - dynamic window manager
 ----------------------------
-
 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
 
 
@@ -34,6 +33,17 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
 
 
+Displaying status info
+----------------------
+In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
+in .xinitrc:
+
+    while true
+    do
+        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
+        sleep 2
+    done | dwm
+
 Configuration
 -------------
 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,