[new] wmii-cvs - updated May 4th, 2005

phrakture · 2005-03-01 03:17:13

Known Bugs: http://wmi.modprobe.de/index.php?n=WMII.KnownBugs

make sure to remove ~/.wmii and copy /etc/wmii to ~/.wmii - if you have changes there, back them up, but configuration has changed alot since last snap

wmii-cvs:

pkgname=wmii-cvs
pkgver=20050409
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Next generation WMI (Window Manager Improved 2)"
url="http://wmi.modprobe.de"
license=""
depends=('x-server')
source=(http://wmi.modprobe.de/snaps/wmii-0-$pkgver.tar.bz2 config.mk)

build()
{
  cd $startdir/src/wmii-0-$pkgver

  #setup config.mk
  cp -f ../config.mk . #custom config.mk provided below

#  current wmii fails with -march flag
#  sed -i "s#@CFLAGS@#$CFLAGS#g" config.mk

  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

config.mk:

# Made for archlinux

# paths
PREFIX      = /usr
CONFPREFIX  = /etc
MANPREFIX   = ${PREFIX}/man

INCDIR      = ${PREFIX}/include
LIBDIR      = ${PREFIX}/lib
X11DIR      = /usr/X11R6

# includes and libs
INCLUDES    = -I. -I${INCDIR} -I/usr/include -I${X11DIR}/include
LIBS        = -L${LIBDIR} -L/usr/lib -lc -lm -L${X11DIR}/lib -lX11
DRAW        = xlib

# compiler
CFLAGS      = -O0 -g -Wall -pedantic ${INCLUDES}
LDFLAGS     = -g -Wl ${LIBS}

# userland
AR          = ar cr
CC          = cc
CP          = cp -f
COMPRESS    = bzip2
INSTBIN     = ${CP}
INSTDATA    = ${CP}
MODBIN      = chmod 755
MODDATA     = chmod 644
MKDIR       = mkdir
RANLIB      = ranlib
RM          = rm -f
TAR         = tar
PYTHON      = python

Dusty · 2005-03-01 03:24:23

Sorry, I'm too lazy to build, when's it going into phrakture.freelinuxhost.com?

What do you think of it, compare to wmi, etc?

Dusty

dadexter · 2005-03-01 03:38:44

Oh my... I mean... it's... ugly, no?

Nothing against your choice of WM, but I need a little bit of eye candy to make my life more enjoyable

so in other words... I am wondering what would be the advantages of using something like that over a lightweight WM like FluxBox, or even XFCE?

phrakture · 2005-03-01 03:45:01

Dusty wrote:

Sorry, I'm too lazy to build, when's it going into phrakture.freelinuxhost.com?
What do you think of it, compare to wmi, etc?
Dusty

well, right now I'm in "config mode" where I'm just trying to get my claws around everything.... I have mixed feelings about the pseudo-filesystem config thing they got going on....

I'm gonna push it in a moment... hell let me sync it now... give me maybe 15mins or so

Dusty · 2005-03-01 04:54:34

dadexter wrote:

so in other words... I am wondering what would be the advantages of using something like that over a lightweight WM like FluxBox, or even XFCE?

I have'nt used WMII yet, but if its like WMI, the window tiling (with floating over tiles), keyboard shortcuts, and modal command system provide you with the most efficient management yet. A lot of people prefer eye-candy or easy learnability (ie: point and click) over efficiency, but I find that WMI allows me to get work done faster than anything.

Don't ask me why I'm using XFCE-4 right now. Curiosity mostly.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-03-01 05:03:50

Dusty wrote:

What do you think of it, compare to wmi, etc?

Hmmm, wmii has an RC coming out onthe 4th.. so this is a prelim, but it doesn't work all that well...

input mode doesn't always work... sometimes I get escape characters popping up in windows...

now this may be a feature, I'm not sure...

Still messing with it, but for right now I'm in wmi

dadexter · 2005-03-01 07:33:37

Dusty wrote:

Don't ask me why I'm using XFCE-4 right now. Curiosity mostly.
Dusty

I'm using it because I'm used to DE's though I have no problem surviving with just a WM... and XFCE is the best DE IMHO, being lightweight and doesn't come with loads of useless apps like KDE or GNOME

corky · 2005-03-01 15:18:49

Thanks for this, I'm really liking wmii whereas I couldnt get on with wmi. The only problem is your having cairo as a dep, but not actually enabling it (config.mk), so your missing out on some nice eyecandy.

phrakture · 2005-03-01 16:21:26

corky wrote:

Thanks for this, I'm really liking wmii whereas I couldnt get on with wmi. The only problem is your having cairo as a dep, but not actually enabling it (config.mk), so your missing out on some nice eyecandy.

hmm, I figured it was autodetected... good catch, I'll fix that later

I had glitz on there too (which is a 2D acceleration library which uses 3D hardware [OpenGL] - cool idea) but with glitz, cairo won't compile...

did you have any issues with input mode losing "focus" for you... there were some times when I couldn't get it working and had to click on the wmibar at the bottom

phrakture · 2005-03-01 16:26:20

now you can number commands like in vim...

like "4 resize +10 left" to do it 4 times... nice feature, but I rerely use that in vim, as I can't count word/lines that fast... easier to match braces or just slam on ddddddddd to remove some lines...

phrakture · 2005-03-08 20:35:35

updated (bump)

Dusty · 2005-03-08 21:35:34

update it in your repo and I'll give it a go.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-03-08 22:19:55

Dusty wrote:

update it in your repo and I'll give it a go.
Dusty

yeah, when i get home (I do this crap from work when I'm bored )

Dusty · 2005-03-09 00:22:16

Hey, if I got paid to write PKGBUILD's I'd do it too. 8)

Dusty

dp · 2005-03-09 00:29:20

phrakture wrote:

Dusty wrote:
update it in your repo and I'll give it a go.
Dusty
yeah, when i get home (I do this crap from work when I'm bored )

you need coLinux

phrakture · 2005-03-09 01:08:24

hey dp, libpixman is up to 0.1.4... fyi

NOTE: removing cairo and libpixman PKGBUILDs as they're now in extra

Dusty · 2005-03-09 03:08:35

Phrakture, FYI:

The man pages in your package aren't world readable, and man 5 wmii.rc seems to be corrupt.

Also, what exactly do I need to put in .xinitrc to get a running system, because I'm not getting shortcuts or anything useful besides a pager no matter what I try... no input bar, nada.

Dusty

Dusty · 2005-03-09 03:18:06

mktemp seems to be a dependency of wmii, I was getting errors running it without it installed. I'm still getting errors, but I can't figure out these ones. When I startx, it gives me a long line of ixp cannot connect to server errors... somethnig like that. Any ideas?

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-03-09 04:40:28

Dusty wrote:

mktemp seems to be a dependency of wmii, I was getting errors running it without it installed. I'm still getting errors, but I can't figure out these ones. When I startx, it gives me a long line of ixp cannot connect to server errors... somethnig like that. Any ideas?
Dusty

I was getting that as well... I'm not sure what's up with it...

as for running it, you just need to copy /etc/wmii/rc to ~/.wmii/rc and add "exec wmii" to .xinitrc

but I seem to be getting nothing but the ixp errors as well... sigh

phrakture · 2005-03-09 04:45:22

hmmm it appears wmii doesn't like anything above -O0 when compiling... removed the CFLAGS from PKGBUILD and it works, I think

Dusty · 2005-03-09 16:45:17

Yep, its working now. Still a bit unuseable as yet though, but it shows great promise, eh?

And I can write .wmii/rc in groovy if I want, coooooooooool!

phrakture · 2005-03-09 21:08:47

oh and one of those man pages is empty... so it says ts corrupt...

phrakture · 2005-03-10 16:27:40

Ok, couple things - I'll make man pages work next time I do the PKGBUILD. I' going to make 2 packages, wmii-cvs-xlib and wmii-cvs-cairo, so it's easy to compare.

The ixp errors are from -march=i686... talking to anselm about it now...

Dusty: In case you didn't get this at first... to add clients to a frame, hit alt+u to unlock it. All clients started from there on out are added to that frame. alt+l will lock it again. then alt+h and alt+v (horiz/vert split) will work.
I'm not sure if you can add existing clients to frames just yet.

Dusty · 2005-03-10 16:41:03

That might help... I looked at the rc page for keybindings but missed those ones. I'll give it a go later. I want to be able to customize the keybindings though anyway... Mod4 instead of Alt for most of them, I like to keep alt for applications... I'll tyr it later, thanks.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-03-10 16:48:26

Dusty wrote:

That might help... I looked at the rc page for keybindings but missed those ones. I'll give it a go later. I want to be able to customize the keybindings though anyway... Mod4 instead of Alt for most of them, I like to keep alt for applications... I'll tyr it later, thanks.
Dusty

ya know, that would probably make sense... I know whenever I need alt it gets goofy... I should probably remap my default bindings...

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