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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 %guide to wmii-3
-%Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by Steffen Liebergeld, Salva Peiro
+%Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by Steffen Liebergeld, Salva Peir\'o
 
 %This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 %modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -39,18 +39,16 @@
       \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}
   {\end{itemize}}
 \date{\today}
-\author{ 
-Steffen \\ Liebergeld \\ \emph{author}
-\and
-Salvador \\ Peir\'o \\ \emph{inquisitor}
+\author{
+Steffen\\Liebergeld \\\\
+\small{with help from}\\
+Salvador\\Peir\'o
 }
 
 \title{A Guide to wmii-3%
-\thanks{This work was partly funded by the EEE \emph{(European Easter's Egg)}
-commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Credits section} \\
-\small{(\emph{when did wmii got lost?})}
+\thanks{Thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Credits section}
 }
-%\email{stepardo@gmail.com et saoret.one@gmail.com}
+%\email{stepardo@gmail.com \and saoret.one@gmail.com}
 
 \begin{document}
 
@@ -62,6 +60,11 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
 
 \section{Abstract}
 
+  \subsection{Who brought this to you}
+    
+    This guide was written by Steffen Liebergeld, who got lots of help
+    from Salvador Peir\'o and a patch from Jochen Schwartz.
+
   \subsection{The purpose of this document}
 
     This document tries to be a good starting point for people new to
@@ -93,12 +96,21 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
   \subsection{Target audience}
 
     I presume the reader already has experience with Unix, knows all
-    the basic terminology and concepts like files or editors. It is
-    helpful if you know what a socket and a network protocol is.
+    the basic terminology and concepts like files or editors.
 
     I hope you are open minded against new ideas, and willing to spend
-    some time learning it~\footnote{remember the refrain:
-    \emph{``nobody can teach you what you don't want to know''.}}.
+    some time learning it~\footnote{remember the refrain: ``nobody can
+    teach you what you don't want to know''.}.
+
+    If you only want to know how to operate wmii-3 and are not
+    interested in the inner workings or in scripting, you may read the
+    chapters ``Configuration and install'', ``Terminology'' and
+    ``First steps'' and skip the rest.
+
+    However, to get the most out of wmii-3 you should possibly read
+    the whole document. Another possibility is to read the
+    introductory chapters first, use some time to get settled in the
+    wmii-world and read the scripting chapters later on.
   
 \section{Configuration and install}
 
@@ -325,7 +337,7 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     It should be clear, that you really need at least two clients to
     have two columns.
 
-    If you press \emph{MOD-k} to change focus, you will see that wmii
+    If you press \emph{MOD-j} to change focus, you will see that wmii
     actually cycles the focus in the current column only. That is why
     you need commands to change the current column.
 
@@ -350,12 +362,12 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     \emph{MOD-s}. As you see now, there in only one client using as
     much space as possible, whereas you only see the title-bars of the
     other clients in the column. You may still switch between the
-    clients in the column using \emph{MOD-Tab}.
+    clients in the column using \emph{MOD-j}.
 
     The third layout is the max-layout, which maximises all the
     clients to use all the space in the column each. Only the focused
     client is visible and the other are hidden behind. You may still
-    switch between those clients with \emph{MOD-Tab}.
+    switch between those clients with \emph{MOD-j}.
 
   \subsection{Float pages}
 
@@ -371,7 +383,7 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     fashioned programs rely on the old window managing concept, where
     all the clients fly around on the desktop and the user has to tell
     them where to stay. We have the term floating windows for this
-    pragma.
+    rule.
 
     To come to the point: wmii also allows you to use floating
     clients. You may enable floating mode for a window by focusing it
@@ -379,8 +391,8 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     (the column it came from) by pressing \emph{MOD-Shift-Space}.
 
     As a side note, this floating mode is actually the zeroth column
-    internally. You will see later on why this was implemented this
-    way.
+    internally. That is why there is not much special internal
+    handling needed.
 
   \subsection{Tags}
 
@@ -579,11 +591,11 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     your local copy will be executed instead.
     
     This works because in the \emph{wmii} launcher script alters and
-    exports the variable \verb+\${}PATH+ as\\
-    \verb+\${}PATH=\~{}/.wmii-3:\${}CONFPREFIX/wmii:\${}PATH+ before
+    exports the variable \verb+$PATH+ as\\
+    \verb+$PATH=~/.wmii-3:$CONFPREFIX/wmii:$PATH+ before
     launching the wmiiwm, this way local user actions under
     \verb+~/.wmii-3+ take precedence over the defaults from
-    \verb+\${}CONFPREFIX/wmii+ of the default actions.
+    \verb+$CONFPREFIX/wmii+ of the default actions.
     
     You may edit this file on the fly, which means you don't need to
     stop wmii before editing. After you've finished editing, you may
@@ -607,6 +619,34 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     the \emph{hjkl} vim home row) this is probably the place to look
     at.
 
+  \subsection{Changing the looks}
+
+    The look of wmii-3 is determined by colours only. And because we
+    wanted small and unimportant things to be as unobstrusive as
+    possible, we used another virtue of unix: \emph{Environment
+    variables}.
+
+    \begin{verbatim}
+      WMII_SELCOLORS='#000000 #eaffff #8888cc'
+      WMII_NORMCOLORS='#000000 #ffffea #bdb76b'
+      WMII_FONT=static
+    \end{verbatim}
+
+    \verb+WMII_SELCOLORS+ define the colours of the selected clients
+    window title and border, whereas \verb+WMII_NORMCOLORS+ defines
+    the colours of all the other clients. The numbers are hexadecimal
+    rgb, which you might know from html. You might get them with the
+    Gimps colour-chooser.
+
+    The definitions are as follows: the first is the colour of the
+    strings in bars and menus. The second is the main colour of bars
+    borders, whereas the third defines the borders and is used for the
+    3d-effects of title-bars and menus.
+
+    \verb+WMII_FONT+ accepts font names or full font strings, which
+    you might get from xfontsel. It defines the font to be used in
+    titlebars, status-bar and in wmiimenu.
+
   \subsection{Filling the status-bar}
 
     \label{subsec:status}
@@ -696,17 +736,22 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
 
     \begin{verbatim}
       echo -n web code | wmiir write /view/sel/sel/tags
-  \end{verbatim}
+    \end{verbatim}
 
-  This command would give the current focused client the tags
-  ``web'' and ``code''.
+    This command would give the current focused client the tags
+    ``web'' and ``code''.
+    
+    You may now go to the new view web by executing the following:
 
-  You may now go to the new view web by executing the following:
-
-  \begin{verbatim}
-    echo -n view web | wmiir write /ctl
-  \end{verbatim}
+    \begin{verbatim}
+      echo -n view web | wmiir write /ctl
+    \end{verbatim}
 
+    As the development of wmii-3 prograssed, it became clear that this
+    action is so common, that it got its own keybinding. By default
+    \emph{MOD-t} brings up a menu to choose a view and
+    \emph{MOD-Shift-t} brings up a menu enabling you to assign new
+    tags to the focused client.
 
   \section{The End}
     
@@ -727,6 +772,25 @@ commission. thanks to the wmii community in particular all the people in the Cre
     up learning a lot and if in the end it's wrong you'll provide
     better feedback to solve the issue.
 
+\newpage
+
 \section{Copyright notice}
 
+guide to wmii-3\\
+Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by Steffen Liebergeld, Salva Peir\'o
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, version 2
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110-1301, USA.
+
 \end{document}