X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=PACKAGE-MAINTAINER;h=269ce0fd12992be1670ca400ce6113c53df83731;hb=fbe25297b7921c390bcdac846710667fc04569f8;hp=633b2d7e4af08eed3cc45127cb95c2bfdf0a14d1;hpb=0f276fdefa5428a9137996bd2d36ae24d86b80df;p=i3%2Fi3 diff --git a/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER b/PACKAGE-MAINTAINER index 633b2d7e..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 @@ -26,7 +32,7 @@ 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.pl and i3-config-wizard are +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