Please make sure the manpage for i3 will be properly created and installed
in your package.
-Also please provide the path to a suitable terminal emulator which is installed
-as a dependency of your package (e.g. urxvt). On systems which have a special
-commend to launch the best available terminal emulator, please use this one
-(e.g. x-terminal-emulator on debian).
+Please check the i3-sensible-{editor,pager,terminal} scripts and modify them if
+necessary. The former two provide fallbacks in case $PAGER or $EDITOR is not
+set (which might be more common than you think, because they have to be set in
+~/.xsession, not in the shell configuration!) while the latter tries to launch
+a terminal emulator. The scripts are most prominently used in i3-nagbar, which
+alerts the user when the configuration is broken for some reason. Also,
+i3-sensible-terminal is used in the default configuration.
-On debian, this looks like this:
+If your distribution has a mechanism to get the preferred terminal, such as the
+x-terminal-emulator symlink in Debian, please use it in i3-sensible-terminal.
- # Compilation
- $(MAKE) TERM_EMU=x-terminal-emulator
- $(MAKE) -C man
+On debian, compilation and installing the manpages looks like this:
- # Installation
- $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/ install
- mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1
- cp man/*.1 $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1
+ autoreconf -fi
+ mkdir -p build && cd build
+ ../configure
+ make -j8 install
Please make sure that i3-migrate-config-to-v4 and i3-config-wizard are
installed with i3. The Perl script is necessary to (automatically) convert v3
If you have any questions, ideas, hints, problems or whatever, please do not
hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Just drop me an E-Mail (find the
-address at http://michael.stapelberg.de/Kontakt, scroll down to bottom),
+address at https://michael.stapelberg.de/Impressum/, scroll down to bottom),
contact me using the same address in jabber or ask on our IRC channel:
-(#i3 on irc.twice-irc.de).
+(#i3 on irc.freenode.net).
Thanks again for your efforts,
Michael