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I did a clean install of arch 0.7 last night and then upgraded everything and installed windowmaker.
The latest version 0.92 (previosuly I had 0.91) was installed but gave me an immediate problem.
In WPrefs (now in /usr/bin/WPrefs) no icons were displayed for the various windows in WPrefs.
Running WPrefs from a terminal window reveals that WPrefs cant find any of the icon files, though they are all there in a new /usr/share.../tiffs directory.
With 0.92 it seems all the paths have changed and the connection between WPrefs and its icon files has been broken.
I had to uninstall 0.92 and force pacman to install 0.91 from the arch install cd. WPrefs works fine in 0.91.
Has anyone else experienced this problem with 0.92
Is it a bug with windowmaker or with the arch package itself?
Peter
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Yes, I had the same problem. Originally, I just ignored the missing icons - I didn't change the preferences that often anyway. Then I tried changing the --with-appspath compiletime option since I was recompiling anyway (with a patch that removes GNUstep menus from the alt-tab switch panel), but appspath doesn't seem to be used anymore.
Today, I worked out a solution. Placing the binary in same directory as the icons makes WPrefs display its icons again. If you don't want to rebuild the package, you can copy /usr/share/WPrefs/ to somewhere in your $HOME, and copy /usr/bin/WPrefs into your copy of the WPrefs directory. You then, of course, have to make sure you launch WPrefs from this copy of the binary, not from /usr/bin/WPrefs.
The somewhat cleaner solution is to rebuild the pkg with the following code added right after the "make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install" line in the PKGBUILD:
# help WPrefs find its resources
cd $startdir/pkg/usr
mv bin/WPrefs share/WPrefs/WPrefs
echo -e '#!/bin/shncd /usr/share/WPrefsnexec ./WPrefs' > bin/WPrefs
chmod 755 bin/WPrefsAll of your mips are belong to us!!
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Many thanks bogomipz!
I have not tried to use PKGBUILD ... maybe one day when I feel a bit more confident with linux.
So I just copied as you suggested /usr/bin/WPrefs to /usr/share/WPrefs/ and WPrefs works fine.
Much appreciated.
Peter
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In the ChangeLog for Windowmaker 0.92, it says that --with-appsdir has been removed and replaced by --with-gnustepdir. You need to make this replacement in the PKGBUILD file.
Sweet, now I can play with myself.
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In the ChangeLog for Windowmaker 0.92, it says that --with-appsdir has been removed and replaced by --with-gnustepdir. You need to make this replacement in the PKGBUILD file.
Ah, how could I not see that? This is of course a much better solution. There still is a bug in WPrefs that the wmaker people need to sort out though, because the default is to install in /usr/bin + /usr/share, which doesn't work.
All of your mips are belong to us!!
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