Edit README for some extra tips.

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Requirements
============
In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files. Optionally you
will also need xinerama.
Installation
============
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the
/usr/local namespace by default).
@@ -28,39 +25,36 @@ Installation
| 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 environment variable is set correctly. For example, to start
dwm on the host foo.bar on display 1:
,----
| 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:
When editing and compiling this project, it may be cumbersome to
restart dwm. By adding the following to your .xinitrc, one may
restart dwm simply by killing the process, which will be immediately
spawned again by the XServer.
,----
| while xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
| while :
| do
| sleep 1
| done &
| exec dwm
| dwm
| done
`----
Any applications will still exist after dwm is restarted, but may not
laid out before the restart. Refer to the `rules` variable in
config.h for automatic layout control.
Configuration
=============
The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and
(re)compiling the source code. Refer to dwm(1) (stored in this
repository as well) to find more information.