X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=PACKAGE-MAINTAINER;h=269ce0fd12992be1670ca400ce6113c53df83731;hb=0fdbc1ab971294c6baa6919ca3c7257dabe1b493;hp=3d9a8e1812f995df02520f0c5588dbc6096f9ccd;hpb=3204caa98dc491978f9cd8c6b1c392609c7218c5;p=i3%2Fi3 diff --git a/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER b/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER index 3d9a8e18..269ce0fd 100644 --- a/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER +++ b/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER @@ -10,15 +10,21 @@ packages for them. 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. + +On debian, compilation and installing the manpages looks like this: # Compilation - $(MAKE) TERM_EMU=x-terminal-emulator + $(MAKE) $(MAKE) -C man # Installation