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-<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>. Introduction</A>
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-This document is an ``advanced user'' manual for the X11 window manager
-Ion, version 3. It is an attempt at documenting things that go into Ion's
-configuration files, how to configure Ion by simple modifications
-to these files and how to write more complex extensions in Lua, the
-lightweight configuration and scripting language used by Ion.
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-Readers unfamiliar with Lua might first want to first glance at some
-Lua documentation at
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-although this should not be strictly necessary for basic modifications
-of configuration files for anyone with at least some familiarity with
-programming languages.
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-Back in this document, first in chapter <A HREF="node3.html#chap:prelim">2</A> some key
-concepts and relations are explained. These include the module system,
-and Ion's object (or ``region'') and class hierarchies. While it may
-not be necessary to study the latter for basic copy-paste modifications
-of configuration files - for that you should not really need this
-manual either - it is, however, essential to for more extensive
-customisation, due to the semi-object-oriented nature of most of
-Ion's scripting interface. Knowing the different object types also
-helps dealing with the different binding ``contexts'' (see
-Section <A HREF="node4.html#sec:bindings">3.3</A>) that to some extent mirror these classes.
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-The new user, fed up with the default key bindings and eager to
-just quickly configure Ion to his liking, may therefore just want
-to skip to Chapter <A HREF="node4.html#chap:config">3</A>, and attempt to work from therefore.
-That chapter provides the very basic Ion configuration know-how
-is provided: all the different configuration files and their locations
-are explained, instructions are given to allow the reader to
-configure bindings and so-called ``winprops'', and the statusbar
-templates are also explained.
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-Next, Chapter <A HREF="node5.html#chap:gr">4</A> explains the notion of drawing engines
-and graphical styles and how to write new looks for Ion. More advanced
-aspects of Ion's scripting interface are documented in Chapter
-<A HREF="node6.html#chap:tricks">5</A>.
-Finally, most of the functions provided by Ion's scripting interface
-are listed and documented in the Function reference in Chapter
-<A HREF="node7.html#sec:exports">6</A>. At the end of the document an alphabetical
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