dwm

my fork of dwm
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commit 98c6a92eb56dbbbec32734f3d9206ae63c8f8c08
parent ba59bc8b9fdc828db5472d4e95ab2b1c248ce3c6
Author: arg@10ksloc.org <unknown>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:59:11 +0200

added a note how to achieve status info in the bar

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MREADME | 18+++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -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,