[xmonad] more improvements to README.fedora

Jens Petersen petersen at fedoraproject.org
Thu May 26 01:46:17 UTC 2011


commit 29075777c68ae47c29d5eb67bf92cb52cef4e85d
Author: Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu May 26 10:46:02 2011 +0900

    more improvements to README.fedora

 README.fedora |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/README.fedora b/README.fedora
index 2cd7ce2..44a13ef 100644
--- a/README.fedora
+++ b/README.fedora
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 xmonad in Fedora is provided by 3 packages:
 
 - xmonad-core: just the base window manager and X session files
-- xmonad: additionally installs devel library files needed for configuration
-- xmonad: additionally included a gnome session file and requires gnome-session and gnome-terminal
+- xmonad: additionally installs the devel library files needed to configure and customize xmonad
+- xmonad-gnome: additionally includes a gnome session file and requires gnome-session and gnome-terminal
 
 = Starting from GDM =
 xmonad can be started from GDM by selecting "xmonad" in the session menu.
@@ -13,12 +13,29 @@ and select "xmonad GNOME" in GDM's session menu, which will run
 "gnome-session --session=xmonad".
 
 = xmonad-start =
-By default at startup Fedora's xmonad-start displays
-"man xmonad" in an xterm to help newcomers.
+For new users without "~/.xmonad/", Fedora's xmonad-start script
+displays "man xmonad" and "less README.fedora" in xterms to provide help initially.
 
 To stop this behaviour, just create "~/.xmonad/".
 
-== Basic configuration for Desktop Environments ==
+For an xmonad-gnome session for new users, xmonad-start will create
+a basic "~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs" file configured for Gnome.
+
+= Customizing and configuring xmonad =
+For documentation and examples see:
+- xmonad man-page
+- /usr/share/doc/xmonad-$version/xmonad.hs (full default basic configuration)
+- /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-contrib-$version/index.html
+and online:
+- Xmonad wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad
+- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/latest/doc/html/XMonad-Doc.html
+  (detailed configuration information and examples)
+- http://xmonad.org/ website
+
+To make use of extensions and Desktop Environment support,
+you need to install ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel.
+
+== Configuration for Desktop Environments ==
 The default xmonad configuration does not work well with desktop environments.
 
 The following basic generic configuration requires ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel
@@ -43,20 +60,6 @@ See:
 - http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Basic_Desktop_Environment_Integration
 for more info on how to setup desktop support.
 
-= Detailed configuration =
-For documentation and examples see:
-- xmonad man-page
-- /usr/share/doc/xmonad-$version/xmonad.hs (full default basic configuration)
-- /usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/xmonad-contrib-$version/index.html
-and online:
-- Xmonad wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad
-- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/latest/doc/html/XMonad-Doc.html
-  (detailed configuration information and examples)
-- http://xmonad.org/ website
-
-To make use of extensions and Desktop Environment support,
-you need to install ghc-xmonad-contrib-devel.
-
 = Bluetile =
 New users may find the Bluetile window manager built on top of
 xmonad-contrib a gentler introduction to xmonad and tiling.


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