X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=PACKAGE-MAINTAINER;h=269ce0fd12992be1670ca400ce6113c53df83731;hb=1ab3621656f7f3f717f3b99e4d3a78c71a63eb9c;hp=ff39c0c0766c804f83f2df546fb9056cd4939937;hpb=263d6b81d0efc91ea2ac34c0a77476426136d718;p=i3%2Fi3 diff --git a/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER b/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER index ff39c0c0..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 @@ -26,6 +32,12 @@ On debian, this looks like this: mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1 cp man/*.1 $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1 +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 +configs to v4. The wizard provides the possibility to create a keysym-based +config with the user’s preferred modifier and should be started on the first +start of i3 (it will automatically exit if it finds a config file). + 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),