First of all, I know what you mean. I have to put up with about 5 WinNT servers at
work when 2
Linux boxes could be doing the job of all 5.
Ok. WindowMaker 0.52 comes with the Mandrake distribution. You can either install
that if you
haven't already, or you can go ahead with installing the 0.60 version. To install the
0.60 version,
you have download the tar ball and you have to compile it (you said you did this).
Besides the
0.60 tar ball you also need a library called libPropList, I think that's what its
called, this also comes
with Mandrake as an RPM. I don't know if you need all the utilites, but I installed
all the C
Development and extra utilities, just in case and I didn't get any compile errors,
except for a few
warnings. I installed the 0.60 version and it isn't all that different, just some bug
fixes. If you just
want to check out WindowMaker, I would install the version that comes with Mandrake
and try that
out. There were a lot of configuration issues I had to go through to get the 0.60
version to work.
Some things you have to do to install 0.60:
1. Remove the windowmaker RPM from Linux, if installed. Also remove the wmaker-conf
RPM if it
is installed too.
2. untar the 0.60 tar ball, and run the configure script, can get the configure
options if you type:
~#: ./configure --help
The configure script will let you know if anything is missing or if something isn't
right. Generally if
the configure script gives no errors, you should be able to compile without errors and
install it ok.
If you install WindoMaker (wmaker) into /usr/local/bin, then you will have to add that
to your
path. You can edit /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc and add the line
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
If you want the program in a different directory, you can edit the Makefile to tell
WindowMaker
where to install, but by default, it is installed in: /usr/local/bin
3. Run make
4. Run make install
Building WindowMaker with Gnome and KDE support won't break anything, it just adds
support.
That should get you started. I agree with you KDE reminds me too much of Winblows and
I want
to get as far away from Windblows as possible. There are a lot of things that could
go wrong and
it might get frustrating, but it's all part of learning your way around linux. 8-)
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Original message from: scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>John,
>
>I would like to try WindowMaker. I have downloaded the 0.60 tar balls a while
>back but I don't know if Mandrake comes with all the required libs & tools.
>
>Do you really need automake, libtool, etc. or is gcc enough?
>
>Does the Makefile require modification to put WindowMaker & components into the
>correct directories on Mandrake? I've noticed that both RH & SuSE seem
>customize their rpm's of WindowMaker.
>
>When I built 0.60 the resulting config files were in text format. I
>followed the directions to convert to binary form so I could use the GUI config
>program but the conversion script gave an error. Is this normal?
>
>Does building WM with Gnome or KDE support harm WM's performance any? I assume
>those hooks are there to load the appropriate libs when a Gnome/KDE app is
>executed.
>
>I have to put up with NT and soon W2k for 8hrs at work. It would be nice to use
>something completely different.
>
>scottw
>
