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diff --git a/README b/README
index 6260440..1f4be0a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 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
@@ -11,14 +10,19 @@ In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
 
 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
 
+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
 -----------
@@ -31,10 +35,18 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
 
     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:
+
+    while true
+    do
+        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
+        sleep 1
+    done | dwm
 
 
 Configuration
 -------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by customizing the wm.h source file. To
-customize the key bindings edit kb.c.
+The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.