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Dear package maintainer,
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thanks for packaging i3. By doing so, you are improving your distribution
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and i3 in general.
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Please read the file DEPENDS now, so you know which libraries are necessary
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and where to get them from if your distribution does not already have
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packages for them.
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Please make sure the manpage for i3 will be properly created and installed
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in your package.
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Please check the i3-sensible-{editor,pager,terminal} scripts and modify them if
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necessary. The former two provide fallbacks in case $PAGER or $EDITOR is not
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set (which might be more common than you think, because they have to be set in
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~/.xsession, not in the shell configuration!) while the latter tries to launch
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a terminal emulator. The scripts are most prominently used in i3-nagbar, which
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alerts the user when the configuration is broken for some reason. Also,
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i3-sensible-terminal is used in the default configuration.
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If your distribution has a mechanism to get the preferred terminal, such as the
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x-terminal-emulator symlink in Debian, please use it in i3-sensible-terminal.
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You can build i3 like you build any other software package which uses
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https://mesonbuild.com/; see
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https://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html#compiling-a-meson-project
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In case you’re unfamiliar:
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$ mkdir -p build && cd build
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$ meson ..
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$ ninja
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Please make sure that i3-migrate-config-to-v4 and i3-config-wizard are
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installed with i3. The Perl script is necessary to (automatically) convert v3
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configs to v4. The wizard provides the possibility to create a keysym-based
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config with the user’s preferred modifier and should be started on the first
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start of i3 (it will automatically exit if it finds a config file).
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If you have any questions, ideas, hints, problems or whatever, please do not
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hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Please see
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https://i3wm.org/contact/
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Thanks again for your efforts,
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Michael
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