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-slstatus
-========
+![slstatus](slstatus.png)
 
-**slstatus** is a suckless and lightweight status monitor for window managers which use WM_NAME as statusbar (e.g. DWM). It is written in pure C without any system() calls and only reads from files most of the time. It is meant as a better alternative to Bash scripts (inefficient) and Conky (bloated for this use).
+**slstatus** is a suckless and lightweight status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME as statusbar (e.g. DWM). It is written in pure C without any system calls and only reads from files most of the time. It is meant to be a better alternative to Bash scripts (inefficient) and Conky (bloated for this use).
 
-The following information is included:
+If you write a bash script that shows system information in WM_NAME, it executes a huge amount of external commands (top, free etc.) every few seconds. This results in high system resource usage. slstatus solves this problem by only using C libraries and/or reading from files in sysfs/procfs.
 
-- wifi percentage
-- battery percentage
-- cpu usage in percent
-- cpu temperature
-- ram usage in percent
-- alsa volume level in percent
-- disk usage
-- date
-- time
+Looking at the LOC (lines of code) of the [Conky project](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky), very interesting: *28.346 lines C++, 219 lines Python and 110 lines Lua*. slstatus currently has about **800 lines of clean documented C code** and even includes additional possibilities as it can be customized and extended very easily. Configure it by customizing the config.h (C header file) which is secure and fast as no config files are parsed at runtime.
 
-Multiple entries (battery, wifi signal, ...) are supported and everything can be reordered and customized via a C header file (similar to DWM).
+The following information is included:
 
-![screenshot](screenshot.png)
+- Battery percentage
+- CPU usage (in percent)
+- Custom shell commands
+- Date and time
+- Disk[s] status (free storage, percentage, total storage and used storage)
+- Available entropy
+- username/gid/uid
+- Hostname
+- IP addresses
+- Load average
+- Memory status (free memory, percentage, total memory and used memory)
+- Temperature
+- Uptime
+- Volume percentage + mute status (alsa)
+- WiFi signal percentage and essid
+
+Multiple entries per function are supported and everything can be reordered and customized via the C header file config.h (similar to DWM).
 
 ## Usage
 
 ### Installation
 
-Before you continue, please be sure that a C compiler, `make` and `alsa-lib` are installed. Then compile the program once using `sudo make install`. After that you may change config.h to your needs and recompile it after any change! 
+Before you continue, please be sure that a C compiler (preferrably gcc), GNU make and `alsa-lib` (for volume percentage) are installed. Then copy config.def.h to config.h and customize it to fit your needs. Recompile and install it after modifications:
+
+	$ make clean all
+	# make install
 
 ### Starting
 
-Put the following code in your ~/.xinitrc (or similar):
+Write the following code to your ~/.xinitrc (or any other initialization script):
 
-```
-while true; do
-    slstatus
-done &
-```
+	while true; do
+		slstatus
+	done &
 
 The loop is needed that the program runs after suspend to ram.