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docs/userguide: update the status line section, recommend i3bar 

dzen2 does not get mentioned anymore. They did not release a new version for
more than three years (-dock was added 2008-04-03). I am sick of telling people
they need to check out the latest SVN trunk of dzen2.
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@ -1041,24 +1041,16 @@ approach you have in the task bar of a traditional desktop environment.
If you don’t already have your favorite way of generating such a status line
(self-written scripts, conky, …), then i3status is the recommended tool for
this task. It was written in C with the goal of using as few syscalls as
possible to reduce the time your CPU is woken up from sleep states.
possible to reduce the time your CPU is woken up from sleep states. Because
i3status only spits out text, you need to combine it with some other tool, like
i3bar. Use a pipe to connect them: +i3status | i3bar -d+.
Regardless of which application you use to generate the status line, you
want to make sure that the application does one of the following things:
1. Register as a dock window using EWMH hints. This will make i3 position the
window above the workspace bar but below every other client. This is the
recommended way, but in case of dzen2, for example, you need to check out
the source of dzen2 from subversion, as the -dock option is not present
in the released versions.
2. Overlay the internal workspace bar. This method will not waste any space
on the workspace bar, however, it is rather hackish. Just configure
the output window to be over the workspace bar (say -x 200 and -y 780 if
your screen is 800 px height).
The planned solution for this problem is to make the workspace bar optional
and switch to a third party application completely (dzen2 for example)
which will then contain the workspace bar.
Regardless of which application you use to display the status line, you
want to make sure that it registers as a dock window using EWMH hints. i3 will
position the window either at the top or at the bottom of the screen, depending
on which hint the application sets. With i3bar, you can use +-d+ or +-dbottom+
for positioning it at the bottom and +-dtop+ to position it at the top of the
screen.
=== Giving presentations (multi-monitor)