| 20 | 20 |
If your distribution has a mechanism to get the preferred terminal, such as the
|
| 21 | 21 |
x-terminal-emulator symlink in Debian, please use it in i3-sensible-terminal.
|
| 22 | 22 |
|
| 23 | |
On debian, compilation and installing the manpages looks like this:
|
|
23 |
You can build i3 like you build any other software package which uses
|
|
24 |
https://mesonbuild.com/; see
|
|
25 |
https://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html#compiling-a-meson-project
|
|
26 |
In case you’re unfamiliar:
|
| 24 | 27 |
|
| 25 | |
autoreconf -fi
|
| 26 | |
mkdir -p build && cd build
|
| 27 | |
../configure
|
| 28 | |
make -j8 install
|
|
28 |
$ mkdir -p build && cd build
|
|
29 |
$ meson ..
|
|
30 |
$ ninja
|
| 29 | 31 |
|
| 30 | 32 |
Please make sure that i3-migrate-config-to-v4 and i3-config-wizard are
|
| 31 | 33 |
installed with i3. The Perl script is necessary to (automatically) convert v3
|
|
| 34 | 36 |
start of i3 (it will automatically exit if it finds a config file).
|
| 35 | 37 |
|
| 36 | 38 |
If you have any questions, ideas, hints, problems or whatever, please do not
|
| 37 | |
hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Just drop me an E-Mail (find the
|
| 38 | |
address at https://michael.stapelberg.de/Impressum/, scroll down to bottom),
|
| 39 | |
contact me using the same address in jabber or ask on our IRC channel:
|
| 40 | |
(#i3 on irc.freenode.net).
|
|
39 |
hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Please see
|
|
40 |
https://i3wm.org/contact/
|
| 41 | 41 |
|
| 42 | 42 |
Thanks again for your efforts,
|
| 43 | 43 |
Michael
|