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[dwm.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 89f7dba..f7721cf 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +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
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ 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):
@@ -35,16 +35,17 @@ 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:
+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 2
+        sleep 1
     done | dwm
 
+
 Configuration
 -------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
-grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.
+The configuration of dwm is done by customizing its source code
+(grep for the CUSTOMIZE keyword).