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							|  | @ -1,6 +1,5 @@ | |||
| dwm - dynamic window manager | ||||
| ---------------------------- | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|  | @ -34,6 +33,23 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.: | |||
| 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: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|     $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 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Configuration | ||||
| ------------- | ||||
| The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, | ||||
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