Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-30 Thread XU, Jiangyan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Alex Kilgore  wrote:

>  I don't know what exact this command did but Alt+Enter worked after that.
>> The side effect, though, was that it squeezed the window a bit so that I
>> couldn't even see the bottom of the terminal.
>>
>>  gnome-settings-daemon is, like it sounds, a daemon used by gnome that
> manages gnome session settings, probably the reason that gnome-terminal
> wouldn't start is because it may require the settings daemon to be running,
> I am unsure as to what you mean by "squeezed the window" but it's probably a
> result of one of those settings(or so it would seem, intuitively), when I
> accidentally had this running at one point, I noticed a lot of different
> things. but if you're not using gnome, you might be better off using another
> terminal emulator anyways


I agree, so maybe I will just switch to xterm. I used gnome-terminal only
because it was given by default after I installed wmii and I was (am) a
newbie of wmii.

Thanks for your help I appreciate it.


> Alex K
>
>


Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-30 Thread Alex Kilgore
I don't know what exact this command did but Alt+Enter worked after 
that. The side effect, though, was that it squeezed the window a bit so 
that I couldn't even see the bottom of the terminal.


gnome-settings-daemon is, like it sounds, a daemon used by gnome that 
manages gnome session settings, probably the reason that gnome-terminal 
wouldn't start is because it may require the settings daemon to be 
running, I am unsure as to what you mean by "squeezed the window" but 
it's probably a result of one of those settings(or so it would seem, 
intuitively), when I accidentally had this running at one point, I 
noticed a lot of different things. but if you're not using gnome, you 
might be better off using another terminal emulator anyways

Alex K



Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-30 Thread XU, Jiangyan
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Kris Maglione wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:42:30PM -0400, XU, Jiangyan wrote:
>
>> I changed it to:
>> WMII_TERM="xterm"
>> and then wmii uses xterm and doesn't need me to run an application such as
>> gedit, firefox before Alt+Enter works.
>> ...
>> Not sure what caused the problem...
>>
>
> Try running gnome-settings-daemon at X11 startup.


I don't know what exact this command did but Alt+Enter worked after that.
The side effect, though, was that it squeezed the window a bit so that I
couldn't even see the bottom of the terminal.

Thanks for helping, though.

Best,

XU, Jiangyan


>
>
> --
> Kris Maglione
>
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
> stupidity.
>--Hanlon's razor
>
>
>


Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-29 Thread Kris Maglione

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:42:30PM -0400, XU, Jiangyan wrote:

I changed it to:
WMII_TERM="xterm"
and then wmii uses xterm and doesn't need me to run an application such as
gedit, firefox before Alt+Enter works.
...
Not sure what caused the problem...


Try running gnome-settings-daemon at X11 startup.

--
Kris Maglione

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity.
--Hanlon's razor




Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-29 Thread XU, Jiangyan
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Alex Kilgore  wrote:

> Check your terminal from which you run X for any output when you try
> alt+enter maybe, replace your
> configuration file with a fresh one, also, does it work if you use xterm
> instead of gnome-terminal?
>

The default config file /etc/X11/wmii-3.5/wmiirc uses:
WMII_TERM="x-terminal-emulator"
In Ubuntu it points to gnome-terminal.

I changed it to:
WMII_TERM="xterm"
and then wmii uses xterm and doesn't need me to run an application such as
gedit, firefox before Alt+Enter works.

so yes, the problem is only with gnome-terminal.

I also tried to use a terminal to start wmii and nothing much printed. I
also replaced these configs with the ones from [
http://code.suckless.org/dl/wmii/wmii-3.6.tar.gz] and got the same result.

Not sure what caused the problem...


>
>  So should I put new configs in another folder?
>>
> 3.6 still uses wmii-3.5 as it's config directory i believe
> I was only talking about if you used the mercurial repo


Yes you were and sorry I misunderstood.


>
> Alex K.
>
>
>


Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Kilgore

Check your terminal from which you run X for any output when you try
alt+enter maybe, replace your
configuration file with a fresh one, also, does it work if you use xterm
instead of gnome-terminal?


So should I put new configs in another folder?

3.6 still uses wmii-3.5 as it's config directory i believe
I was only talking about if you used the mercurial repo

Alex K.




Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-29 Thread XU, Jiangyan
Yes I was fooled by the config folder name ~/.wmii-3.5

wmii -v actually shows version 3.6.

So should I put new configs in another folder?

Best,

XU, Jiangyan


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Alex Kilgore  wrote:

> Strange..does wmii give you any interesting output on your terminal when
> you try to do alt+enter..
> If possible, though, you should definitely try either the snapshot, or even
> better, the wmii from the mercurial repository though, because it was my
> understanding that anything 3.6 and before was very old though you may
> actually have a different version (to check, dont look at that config
> directory, use wmii -v)
> Also, replace all of the config files with fresh ones, to make sure that
> isn't the problem, if you did choose to use the mercurial repo, bear in mind
> that the config directories changed at one point from wmii-3.5 to wmii-hg
>
> Alex K.
>
>
>
> XU, Jiangyan wrote:
>
>> Hello all:
>>
>> After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, wmii stops working. Every time I log in
>> and press Alt(Mod1)+Enter, nothing happens. Then I found out a workaround
>> which was to first invoke an application such as gedit using Alt+P and then
>> Alt+Enter started to work. The terminal I use is gnome-terminal but I didn't
>> configure it myself.
>>
>> I also noticed that kde applications such as kate didn't help so I guess
>> this has something to do with gnome. Any ideas what was wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jiangyan
>>
>
>
>


Re: [wmii] Alt+Enter doesn't work with wmii-3.5/Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Kilgore
Strange..does wmii give you any interesting output on your terminal when 
you try to do alt+enter..
If possible, though, you should definitely try either the snapshot, or 
even better, the wmii from the mercurial repository though, because it 
was my understanding that anything 3.6 and before was very old though 
you may actually have a different version (to check, dont look at that 
config directory, use wmii -v)
Also, replace all of the config files with fresh ones, to make sure that 
isn't the problem, if you did choose to use the mercurial repo, bear in 
mind that the config directories changed at one point from wmii-3.5 to 
wmii-hg


Alex K.


XU, Jiangyan wrote:

Hello all:

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, wmii stops working. Every time I log in 
and press Alt(Mod1)+Enter, nothing happens. Then I found out a 
workaround which was to first invoke an application such as gedit using 
Alt+P and then Alt+Enter started to work. The terminal I use is 
gnome-terminal but I didn't configure it myself.


I also noticed that kde applications such as kate didn't help so I guess 
this has something to do with gnome. Any ideas what was wrong?


Thanks

Best,

Jiangyan