diff --git a/dwm.1 b/dwm.1
index f5d01c0..6eead84 100644
--- a/dwm.1
+++ b/dwm.1
@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ because those close standard output before executing dwm.
 .P
 Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
 only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
-JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As workaround
-wether you use JDK 1.4 (which don't contains the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
-define the following environment variable accordingly (to use the older Motif
+JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. As a workaround
+you can use JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or you
+can set the following environment variable (to use the older Motif
 backend instead):
 .BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit .
 .SH SEE ALSO