Add sample .conkyrc + note about bar_action = conky for +A bar readout #436
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Update to match master
For piping a conky reading through the spectrwm bar. Helpful for making a truly portable (cross-platform) set of spectrwm dotfiles.
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The one trouble with using a shell script for the spectrwm bar is that any shell scripts is not going to be portable/cross-platform. What made this apparent to me was trying to find a script to clone (as a non-programmer and non-scripter) for my FreeBSD installation; the default baraction.sh in the FreeBSD package is actually written for OpenBSD, and most iterations across the Web are for GNU/Linux (and written in Bash rather than Bourne or another more common *BSD shell).
A conky configuration, however, is almost entirely cross-platform (save odds and ends like mixer vs. pulseaudio) -- and easy. I think that it would be good for the project to include a sample conky configuration and a note about the option of installing and using conky directly in the same .spectrwm.conf file. What I have done here is a (very) simple iteration of just that idea.
Many thanks for all of your great work on my favorite window manager, folks.