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authorarg@10ksloc.org <unknown>2006-08-04 17:15:07 +0200
committerarg@10ksloc.org <unknown>2006-08-04 17:15:07 +0200
commitf1495a11b6a020c94f98c563632960dc50594dcf (patch)
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fixed README of dmenu
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@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-dwm - dynamic window manager
-----------------------------
-dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
+dmenu - dynamic menu
+--------------------
+dwm is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window
+System.
Requirements
------------
-In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.
+In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
@@ -13,36 +14,18 @@ Installation
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).
-Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if
+Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (if
necessary as root):
make clean install
-Running dwm
------------
-Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:
-
- exec dwm
-
-In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that
-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.)
-
-In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
-like this in your .xinitrc:
-
- while true
- do
- echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
- sleep 1
- done | dwm
+Running dmenu
+-------------
+See the man page for details.
Configuration
-------------
-The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h
+The configuration of dmenu is done by creating a custom config.h
and (re)compiling the source code.