1 Dear package maintainer,
3 thanks for packaging i3. By doing so, you are improving your distribution
6 Please read the file DEPENDS now, so you know which libraries are necessary
7 and where to get them from if your distribution does not already have
10 Please make sure the manpage for i3 will be properly created and installed
13 Please check the i3-sensible-{editor,pager,terminal} scripts and modify them if
14 necessary. The former two provide fallbacks in case $PAGER or $EDITOR is not
15 set (which might be more common than you think, because they have to be set in
16 ~/.xsession, not in the shell configuration!) while the latter tries to launch
17 a terminal emulator. The scripts are most prominently used in i3-nagbar, which
18 alerts the user when the configuration is broken for some reason. Also,
19 i3-sensible-terminal is used in the default configuration.
21 If your distribution has a mechanism to get the preferred terminal, such as the
22 x-terminal-emulator symlink in Debian, please use it in i3-sensible-terminal.
24 On debian, compilation and installing the manpages looks like this:
31 $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/ install
32 mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1
33 cp man/*.1 $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1
35 Please make sure that i3-migrate-config-to-v4 and i3-config-wizard are
36 installed with i3. The Perl script is necessary to (automatically) convert v3
37 configs to v4. The wizard provides the possibility to create a keysym-based
38 config with the user’s preferred modifier and should be started on the first
39 start of i3 (it will automatically exit if it finds a config file).
41 If you have any questions, ideas, hints, problems or whatever, please do not
42 hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Just drop me an E-Mail (find the
43 address at http://michael.stapelberg.de/Kontakt, scroll down to bottom),
44 contact me using the same address in jabber or ask on our IRC channel:
45 (#i3 on irc.twice-irc.de).
47 Thanks again for your efforts,