Package: i3-wm Version: 4.1.2-2 Severity: wishlist It'd be good if i3 was in the debian window managers menu to switch to it from another window manager.
I get some joy from the debian/i3-wm.menu file below (which dh_installmenu automatically installs to /usr/share/menu/i3-wm).
?package(i3-wm): \ needs="wm" \ section="Window Managers" \ title="i3" \ command="/usr/bin/i3"
-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages i3-wm depends on: ii libc6 2.13-10 ii libev4 1:4.11-1 ii libpcre3 8.12-4 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 ii libxcb-icccm4 0.3.8-1 ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.3.8-1 ii libxcb-randr0 1.8.1-1 ii libxcb-util0 0.3.8-2 ii libxcb-xinerama0 1.8.1-1 ii libxcb1 1.8.1-1 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.12-1 ii libyajl2 2.0.4-2 ii perl 5.14.2-7 ii x11-utils 7.6+4 Versions of packages i3-wm recommends: ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.3 Versions of packages i3-wm suggests: ii eterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.9.5-3 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 276-2 -- no debconf information