X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4860bbe53e4101c125319ff65857917f01e1da33;hp=22d386ea80214dad01c8a85c523dcba912099779;hb=b43989207a949cbc17182b451aa527afe542c98f;hpb=98c6a92eb56dbbbec32734f3d9206ae63c8f8c08

diff --git a/README b/README
index 22d386e..4860bbe 100644
--- 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 window manager for X.
 
 
 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):
@@ -30,27 +30,19 @@ 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:
 
-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'`
-        sleep 5
-    done
+        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 creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.