commit fc8cccac73b7c3498591af1d7c339b20251cb312
parent bede8500a9794a4c24195d2e3f9a7c2f3f917943
Author: gn <gn@wmii.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:09:35 +0200
welcome stuff from 2.5
Diffstat:
| rc/welcome | | | 40 | ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- |
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/rc/welcome b/rc/welcome
@@ -5,49 +5,43 @@ xmessage -file - <<END
Welcome to wmii, the non-wimp environment of the WMI Project.
This is a small step by step tutorial, intended to make you a little bit
-familiar with the wmii window manager.
+familiar with wmii.
-NOTE: Some characters in the shortcuts that are mentioned in the following
-text have a special meaning. S is the Shift key, C is the Ctrl key, M is
-the Meta key (usually Alt), and the hyphen means that you have to press the
-surrounding keys at the same time.
+NOTE: Some characters in shortcuts have a special meaning. S is the Shift
+key, C is the Ctrl key, M is the Meta key (usually Alt), and the hyphen means
+that you have to press the surrounding keys at the same time.
Let's go!
-- Start a terminal by pressing M-t. This assumes that you have xterm(1)
- installed.
-- Open the actions menu: C-M-a
- Type 'term' and press Enter. You've now used wmiimenu(1) to accomplish what
- wmiikeys(1) did before when you pressed M-t: executing the term action.
- Notice how the tiled layout arranges the windows.
+- Start two xterms by pressing M-t twice.
- Switch between the three windows: M-j, M-k
You can also use M-Tab instead of M-j. If you prefer the mouse, then
just move the pointer above the desired window; no click is required.
-- Create a new page: C-M-y
+- Create a new page: M-C-y
IMPORTANT: this text will then no longer be visible. In order to continue
reading you'll now often have to go back to the first page. Use M-h
or M-l for cycling through the existing pages. The digit in the left
corner at the bottom indicates which page you're on. You can directly
- select a specific page as well: M-1, etc. Make sure that you are on the
+ select a specific page as well: M-S-1, etc. Make sure that you are on the
second page before performing the next steps.
-- Apply the float layout to the current page: S-M-f
+- Apply the float layout to the current page: M-S-f
Watch the leftmost bar label: the 't', which stood for 'tiled', has now
turned into an 'f', for 'float'.
-- Open the programs menu: C-M-p
+- Open the programs menu: M-C-p
Type 'xclock' and press Enter.
- Resize the xclock window: left-click on the border and, while holding the
button down, move the cursor around.
- Move the xclock window: left-click on the title bar and, while holding
the button down, move the cursor around.
-- Remove the current page by opening the actions menu and selecting the premove
- action. The xclock window will be automatically detached and we'll land on
- the first page.
+- Open the actions menu: M-C-a
+ Remove the current page by selecting the rmpage action. The xclock window
+ will be automatically detached and we'll land on the first page.
- Attach the xclock window again: M-a
-- Select one of the terminals and close it: C-M-c
+- Select one of the terminals and close it: M-C-c
Close xclock as well.
- Swap the remaining terminal with the left master tile by moving the terminal
window somewhere to the left. Afterwards, swap them once again, but this
- time by pressing M-return.
+ time by pressing M-Enter.
- We'll now have a look at the internal filesystem used by wmii. Executing
wmiir read /
in the shell of the terminal will list all the files in the root directory.
@@ -59,7 +53,9 @@ Let's go!
will show you which command gets executed when you left-click on the page
label in the bar.
-We hope that these steps gave you an idea of how wmii works. Of course, there
-is much more to say. You should now read the wmii(1) man page and the FAQ at
+We hope that these steps gave you an idea of how wmii works. You can reread
+them at any time by pressing M-C-a and selecting 'welcome'.
+
+You should now take a look at the wmii(1) man page. An FAQ is available on
<http://wmii.de>.
END
