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authorarg@10ksloc.org <unknown>2006-07-21 09:59:11 +0200
committerarg@10ksloc.org <unknown>2006-07-21 09:59:11 +0200
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added a note how to achieve status info in the bar
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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,
remember that computers suck.