added a note how to achieve status info in the bar - dwm - dynamic window manager
HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/dwm
DIR Log
DIR Files
DIR Refs
DIR README
DIR LICENSE
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DIR commit 98c6a92eb56dbbbec32734f3d9206ae63c8f8c08
DIR parent ba59bc8b9fdc828db5472d4e95ab2b1c248ce3c6
HTML 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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M README | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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DIR diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
dwm - dynamic window manager
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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
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The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,