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authorarg@10ksloc.org2006-08-01 12:32:33 +0200
committerarg@10ksloc.org2006-08-01 12:32:33 +0200
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@@ -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).