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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
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@ necessary as root):
 
     make clean install
 
-If you want to use a customized config.h, you can use the following
-command for installing dwm:
-
-    make CONFIG=<your-config>.h clean install
-
 
 Running dwm
 -----------
@@ -35,21 +30,19 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
 
     DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
 
-This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
+(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 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.