added a note how to achieve status info in the bar

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dwm - dynamic window manager
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dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
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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,