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 dwm - dynamic window manager
-----------------------------
-dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
+============================
+dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ Installation
 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
 the /usr/local namespace by default).
 
-Afterwards enter the following commands to build and install dwm (if
+Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
 necessary as root):
 
-    cp config.default.h config.h
     make clean install
 
 
@@ -36,13 +35,14 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
 like this in your .xinitrc:
 
-    while true
+    while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
     do
-        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
-        sleep 1
-    done | dwm
+       sleep 1
+    done &
+    exec dwm
 
 
 Configuration
 -------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by editing config.h.
+The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+and (re)compiling the source code.