From 98c6a92eb56dbbbec32734f3d9206ae63c8f8c08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "arg@10ksloc.org" <unknown>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:59:11 +0200
Subject: added a note how to achieve status info in the bar

---
 README | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index a17b82a..22d386e 100644
--- 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,
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