dwm

dynamic window manager
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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,