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Tristelune

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 86

[kdm] wmii doesn't appear in the menu list (solved)

Hello,

I want to install the package wmii-devel because wmii is too old. I can install it from AUR, it seems that there is no problem.

I use kdm as login manager and I would like to have an entry in the login manager to select wmii, but I have no entry "wmii". If I install the package wmii I have an entry and all works well. If I install wmii-devel I have nothing in the menu.

I saw that a file .desktop must be present in order to have an entry in kdm. I took the one created by the package wmii and I put it in /etc/X11/sessions/. In that directory I have the following:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3900 2007-09-29 17:51 kde.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  114 2007-10-04 22:25 wmii.desktop

The content of wmii.desktop is the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=wmii
TryExec=wmiiwm
Name=wmii
Comment=window manager improved 2

I think that wmii is correctly installed, because if I enter "wmii" in a shell I get:

$ wmii
wmii: fatal: another window manager is already running

I had a look at the kdm handbook, but found nothing. I did like it's said, but it doesn't work. Does anybody have an idea ? Is it a permission problems ? Do I have to refresh the menu of kdm ?

I think there are other wmii user here. Did you install wmii-devel ? Do you have any idea how it works with a login manager ?

Thanks!

Last edited by Tristelune (2007-10-30 19:18:47)

JoyFM

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From: potsdam

Registered: 2007-01-03

Posts: 27

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Re: [kdm] wmii doesn't appear in the menu list (solved)

Hi,
at first i got your email

But I dynno much about kdm (I'm using SLIM) an so i just use the .xinitrc in my home directory.

What does these "TryExec" mean? Did you try to remove that thing?

here is my .xinitrc for wmii thing:

    exec wmii

P.S. Did you try the normal wmii package? Did it work? (it seems to have your .desktop file)

Good Luck!

Tristelune

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 86

Re: [kdm] wmii doesn't appear in the menu list (solved)

at first i got your email

It was the first time I wrote to a package maintainer and I thought: "Perhaps it was a bad idea, because he doesn't respond!"

What does these "TryExec" mean? Did you try to remove that thing?

Yeah..... and it works now!!!!

I still don't understand exactly the a difference between the Exec and TryExec. I read that the TryExec gives the executable. So I think kdm tried wmiiwm and because it didn't work, wmii didn't appear in the menu.

P.S. Did you try the normal wmii package? Did it work? (it seems to have your .desktop file)

Yes, it works with the package wmii. But the wmii version is 3.5.1. I don't know wmii very well, I suppose that it's possible to start that version of wmii with wmiiwm. But with wmii-devel there isn't any wmiiwm, at least in PATH.

Thank you!!!