RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
Harold Hunt wrote: Hmm... the problem I'm running into with fvwm95 is that I can't do a build from a directory other than the source root Probably true. I didn't look into it more than being able to compile and run from the source directory. IIRC, I still got a number of warnings about DLL auto-imports and the like. I didn't even try changing the prefix from /usr/local. (I'm no autotools expert, either.) I was building from a complete Cygwin installation--with all of the tools kept current but without extension libraries/etc. from other sources. BTW, WindowMaker exits with a SEGV on our systems. I haven't looked into it, but verified the problem on multiple systems so it's not isolated to my machine (all IBM laptops running Win2K/Cygwin, though). In all cases, wmaker begins to run and starts creating icons, etc., then throws up a screen reporting that it received a signal 11. I haven't had time to look into it yet. (I got similar behavior from X11 GVIM until I rebuilt it specifically excluding GTK, although that's probably just a coincidence.) The other window managers in the Cygwin dist (openbox, twm) run fine. Fvwm95 seems to work, but I haven't really been using it (before I put much effort into tweaking it, I'd like to check out some other window managers). -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18106-9353: mobile:908-672-7592 O-
RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
Ton van Overbeek, I suspect that the real solution here would be for me to link Cygwin's automode.o into WindowMaker, thus allowing WindowMaker to run regardless of the mount type of $HOME/GNUstep/. I'll see what I can do about that... Harold Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Gerald Williams wrote: BTW, WindowMaker exits with a SEGV on our systems. I haven't looked into it, but verified the problem on multiple systems so it's not isolated to my machine (all IBM laptops running Win2K/Cygwin, though). In all cases, wmaker begins to run and starts creating icons, etc., then throws up a screen reporting that it received a signal 11. I haven't had time to look into it yet. Had the smae behaviour on W98SE. WindowMaker copies its config files to the user home directory ($HOME/GNUstep/...). If this directory is not binary mounted you get the signal 11. Probably the reading code in WindowMaker opens the config files in binary mode and then gets confused by the \r\n combinations it gets from a text mounted filesystem. If you mount the home directory as binary, no signal 11 and WindowMaker works fine. Ton van Overbeek
RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
Gerald, Hmm... the problem I'm running into with fvwm95 is that I can't do a build from a directory other than the source root, e.g.: cd fvwm95-2.0.43c/ mkdir build cd build ../configure make [tons 'o errors] I'm not an expert on autoconf etc. yet, but I just bought the GNU Autoconf, Automake and LibTool book this week for a project I'm doing at work, so I may be able to fix the config files for fvwm95 within a couple of weeks. For now I'm just going to set this package aside. Harold -Original Message- From: Gerald S. Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:42 PM To: Harold Hunt Subject: RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.? I can do better than that. This -src.tar.bz2 file is nearly complete. It includes a patch file to restore the original distribution and a README for your use, both in the CYGWIN directory. You'd at least want to update the README for the general distribution. The original source is here: ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/fvwm95/fvwm95-2.0.43c.tar.gz I didn't include a script to build it, although if you look in the CYGWIN directory of the sources for the SWIG package, there's a build.sh that you might find helpful. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18106-9353: mobile:908-672-7592 O- -Original Message- From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:30 AM To: Gerald S. Williams Subject: RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.? Jerry, Send me the patches and I'll go ahead and make packages for it. Harold -Original Message- From: Gerald S. Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:26 AM To: Harold Hunt Subject: RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.? I ported FVWM95 to Cygwin (it requires a few tweaks to three makefiles). I am not interested in becoming a maintainer for it, but you're welcome to the patches if you're interested. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18106-9353: mobile:908-672-7592 O- -Original Message- From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:08 PM To: cygx; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.? I've created Cygwin setup.exe packages for the X11 window managers WindowMaker and Openbox. I have tentatively put them in release/XFree86/WindowMaker and release/XFree86/openbox... is that a good idea? Or, should I give each X package a toplevel directory in release/? Harold
Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
Christopher Faylor wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:12:15 -0400: Other things that can use X such as rxvt and WindowMaker aren't part of XFree86 itself. In my opinion they should have their own directories and perhaps a new category such as Xapps. I think a category of Xmanagers for WindowMaker and Openbox etc. would be better. We are not talking about categories. The question was where to physically put the actual tar balls. The categories could be discussed as well. ;-) I'm not sure we need a distinction between window managers and other applications in terms of categories. They all just need an X server - pretty much any X server - although some do rely on certain parts of the XFree86 distribution on the machine where they're executing. (Where this is the case they should have dependencies in setup.hint/setup.ini of course.) -- Sam Edge
Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:39:40PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:12:15 -0400: Other things that can use X such as rxvt and WindowMaker aren't part of XFree86 itself. In my opinion they should have their own directories and perhaps a new category such as Xapps. I think a category of Xmanagers for WindowMaker and Openbox etc. would be better. We are not talking about categories. The question was where to physically put the actual tar balls. The categories could be discussed as well. ;-) So start another thread rather than confuse the issue by responding as if you are actually answering a question that was never asked. cgf
Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
At 05:08 PM 4/29/2002, Harold Hunt wrote: I've created Cygwin setup.exe packages for the X11 window managers WindowMaker and Openbox. I have tentatively put them in release/XFree86/WindowMaker and release/XFree86/openbox... is that a good idea? Or, should I give each X package a toplevel directory in release/? The latter please. Thanks, Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
