X-Git-Url: https://jasonwoof.com/gitweb/?p=dwm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=5915a272b0d99fd9f2621428038d68be2c2ca27b;hp=c6d3ae6c6628fee61a3d55c1d8c103853d49111c;hb=dc5c070c44d9af434405c8d6538abd06299d3298;hpb=2b66f7afb1040c1dd8869ce335dc960751f9469a diff --git a/README b/README index c6d3ae6..5915a27 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 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): @@ -30,21 +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.) - -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 5 + 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.