Fwd: different bg-images on different workspaces

2015-10-16 Thread Martin Dietze
Gerhard, On 15 October 2015 at 16:50, Gerhard Wolfstieg wrote: > Since debian stretch you don't have wmakerconf anymore and wprefs > doesn't provide it, I have to edit a file (probably > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker) to get different background images per > Workspace. >

Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
On 27 May 2015 at 11:44, Carlos R. Mafra crma...@gmail.com wrote: This service can build packages for multiple distros and I always had the impression that it could potentially unify the work done by each distro, they would all just pick up the wmaker package from that build system. So the

Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
On 27 May 2015 at 10:03, Nerijus Baliunas neri...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I would take the latest Fedora WindowMaker src.rpm, replace the tarball in it and rebuild it OK, got it. The problem was that I have a GNUstep installation in ~/GNUstep and several environment variables pointing to

Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
On 27 May 2015 at 11:32, Alexey I. Froloff ra...@raorn.name wrote: Better use mock instead of just rpm-build. mock? Never heard of that. I am rather unfamiliar with the RH family of distributions and its tools... -- -- mdie...@gmail.com --/-- mar...@the-little-red-haired-girl.org

Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
On 27 May 2015 at 12:59, Alexey I. Froloff ra...@raorn.name wrote: There's no suck thing like unified package, sorry to disappoint you. It is possible to use one source package to build RPMs for different distros (like Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, whatever), but due to little differences in macros,

Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
On 27 May 2015 at 14:12, Alexey I. Froloff ra...@raorn.name wrote: P.S. You can simplify this by importing Ukrainian translations and converting manpages from iso8859-1 to utf-8. Я тільки за :) I was happy to see that somebody has actually made them by now (I had planned to do this myself for

Re: Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
On 27 May 2015 at 15:44, Carlos R. Mafra crma...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone send this to the main git repo for greater visibility? I've committed them, see appended. I haven't tried it out though. Cheers, Martin -- -- mdie...@gmail.com --/-- mar...@the-little-red-haired-girl.org

Is anybody building rpms from wmaker-crm/next?

2015-05-27 Thread Martin Dietze
Still being a diehard Debian user I have to use RHEL at work (gasp). I have long searched for more or less up-to-date ready-made packages, and I ended up with the repo on li.nux.ro. This is nice, but I've always liked to play around with the most recent features and benefit from bugfixes (e.g.

Re: Affiche.app crashes WM

2015-04-07 Thread Martin Dietze
On 6 April 2015 at 20:17, Christophe christophe.cu...@free.fr wrote: Do you think it would be possible to extract a backtrace and share it on the list? That would be very convenient to hunt down that bug... On my RHELish distro I get crash reports via email. See the attachment for what I get

Support for NETWM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS hint?

2015-03-20 Thread Martin Dietze
I am using WM on VMWare. Since VMWare changed their way of handling multiple monitors you no longer get to see all your monitors using xrandr and thus can no longer create your own dual head setup. VMWare now use the NETWM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS hint instead, i.e. work is being shifted to the WM. It

Re: Best way to compile git WM under Debian

2013-05-03 Thread Martin Dietze
On Fri, May 03, 2013, Rodolfo Garc??a Pe??as wrote: sorry for the delay. Probably, the best way is write a little script to do the work: Actually there already is one: debian/nightly_build.sh This should already do most of what anyone will need to just bake oneself the latest binaries.

Re: Perhaps Cox will run Windowmaker

2012-11-19 Thread Martin Dietze
On Mon, November 19, 2012, Rodolfo Garc??a Pe??as (kix) wrote: I read this article about Russ Cox. He talks about Unity which seems to be a poor remake of Windowmaker without the style.

Review tools [Re: Experimental patch]

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Dietze
You should try the demo: http://demo.reviewboard.org/ I don't really think we need something like this (yet). However if people feel the need for a review tool, I recommend gerrit [1]. It is free and integrates with git perfectly. We use it at work. Procedure as follows: You push your changes

Re: rewrite scripts to Perl

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Dietze
On Fri, February 24, 2012, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: Is possible to propose a patch rewritting wm scripts (like wmaker.inst) from BASH to Perl? Possible? Certainly. Why? BASH is harder to maintain, more erro prone. All the time there is a need for hacks. I disagree. For simple, file system

Re: rewrite scripts to Perl

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Dietze
On Fri, February 24, 2012, Brad Jorsch wrote: Every system will have a bourne-compatible shell installed as /bin/sh, or MANY things will break. Does wmaker.inst have bashisms, or is all this talk about bash not entirely accurate? There are no bashisms in that script. The code is fairly

Re: Launch WPrefs by default via the primary dock button

2012-02-21 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, February 21, 2012, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Not really, but Window Maker is the window manager of choice for GNUstep. There is a lot of symbiosis between the two. Would not call it symbiosis since one works perfectly well without the other, also WM is not based on *Step code.

Re: Re-Redeveloped Website

2012-02-07 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, February 07, 2012, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: I think a new icon in the dock where we put Themes from users would be nice too, no? Does anybody volunteer to do that? :-) I can surely contribute some themes and snapshots (need to be home for that, might not be today). Ideally we should also

Re: BTS

2012-02-07 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, February 07, 2012, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: The idea is good, but, SourceForge (and google code) has countries blocked. That's interesting, I did not know that. Which countries, and for what reason? If that is a blocker (I can't comment on that without more information), maybe there's

Re: Re-Redeveloped Website

2012-02-07 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, February 07, 2012, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: Yeah, do whatever you feel is better. The biggest problem for me would be to actually write a php file displaying screenshots and all that, so if you (or anyone else) feel like doing that too, that will be great. Should in principle not be

Re: BTS

2012-02-07 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, February 07, 2012, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: Me too. I don't have problems with the current git, and I only request a BTS because I think is better for us. But I don't have time to maintain a BTS, webpage or git. Well, having used SF for a couple of my projects for years now I'd say

Re: BTS

2012-02-05 Thread Martin Dietze
On Sun, February 05, 2012, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: Voting for something is a waste of time. Either someone _does_ something his own way or nobody does anything and keep voting hoping that someone else will do something. I suggest we move the project to sourceforge. Getting the project

Re: Where are the users ?

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Dietze
On Thu, February 02, 2012, Michael wrote: - Where is the product right now (positioned in which market, or fitting what needs, of which customers) - Into which market should it move (assuming the original market has changed or disappeared) - Which key features does that imply (which are

Re: BTS

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Dietze
On Thu, February 02, 2012, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Though, to be completely honest, I think I'd rather see something like Trac or Redmine where everything is coordinated. Still requires pretty +1 Also the RCS-integration could be helpful. Cheers, M'bert -- --- /

Debian Build error in the git

2012-02-01 Thread Martin Dietze
Hi, not posting this to the list, my auto build failed again today: dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some new symbols appeared in the symbols file: see diff output below dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the symbols file: see diff output below dpkg-gensymbols: warning:

New Debian auto builds

2012-01-30 Thread Martin Dietze
It seems like pulling from the git now works again for my Linux virtual machine, thus I was able to revive the Debian auto builds. The process is still semi-automatic as I need to manually upload the packages, thus the packages will not always be puncutal, however we have an apt-get'able repo for

Re: WMLive CD/DVD ISO updated

2012-01-30 Thread Martin Dietze
On Mon, January 30, 2012, Paul Seelig wrote: with the newly released wmaker-0.95.1 with it's now fully functional debianization, i have updated my WMLive web page with a new build of a live WindowMaker system based on Ubuntu 11.04. On Very good initiative! It seems like you've configured

Debian folder in git? [Re: PowerPC Icon Fix Patch [wmaker-crm]]

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Dietze
On Thu, January 19, 2012, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: The original motivation for the debian/ folder was to help people test wmaker-crm by making a debian package out of it. Now that wmaker-crm is on debian, it should be removed to avoid this kind of confusion. Whatever debian does to the

Can't pull from Carlos' git repo

2011-12-19 Thread Martin Dietze
Trying to build the latest incarnation I found myself unable to pull from Carlos' git repo. Is there anything I've missed, or is it just a temporary hickup? Cheers, M'bert -- --- / http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org / - =+= Arthur: It's at times like this I

Re: Can't pull from Carlos' git repo

2011-12-19 Thread Martin Dietze
On Mon, December 19, 2011, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: Is there anything I've missed, or is it just a temporary hickup? Probably just a temporary failure. I've had this for quite a while now. The error I get is this: % git clone git://repo.or.cz/wmaker-crm.git foo Cloning into 'foo'... error:

Re: [repo.or.cz] wmaker-crm.git branch master updated: wmaker-0.94.0-crm-331-g625e762

2011-10-10 Thread Martin Dietze
On Mon, October 10, 2011, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: I sent the package yesterday to mentors.debian.net, but my sponsor cannot upload the package now, probably he will upload the package the last week of this month. Cool. I will be able to provide builds more regularly as I've just started

Debian build: patch problem

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Dietze
Just tried to run an auto-build for new wmaker Debian packages based on the current code. The build failed with this message: | # quilt (I do not why is not automatically) | QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt pop -a -R || test $? = 2 | Removing patch 51_wmaker_man.diff | Restoring doc/wmaker.1x |

Re: wmaker debian package

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Dietze
On Sun, September 04, 2011, Rodolfo Garcia wrote: If the next 26-sep the debian package is Orphaned yet, I will adopt it. Unless lots of people tell me to I'll not apply for adopting the package. I see a real danger that I might become a bottleneck with my limited resources. So, @Rodolfo, if

Re: Bug#583734: Use forked git repository for wmaker source

2011-08-31 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, August 30, 2011, Axel Beckert wrote: Sounds to me like forming a packaging team to distribute the load of taking care of wmaker in Debian could be a possibility, as there seem to be quite some people interested but hesitating. I agree. I had already written that I would be willing if

Re: New Window Maker Website

2011-08-17 Thread Martin Dietze
On Tue, August 16, 2011, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: My unofficial Debian repo?? Probably is a better idea to have Our official Debian repo ;-) Both makes sense. I've been providing snapshot builds from Carlos' repo for a couple of months now. These will always be kindof experimental as they

Re: Feature Idea: Gnome Go like interface for our menus.

2011-08-17 Thread Martin Dietze
On Wed, August 17, 2011, Jason Brower wrote: It would be totally awesome to have a feature where I can press something like the meta key or the run dialog and it take the things I type and look That's not a window manager feature. I'm actually using gnome-do with WM, and it works just like

Re: Feature Idea: Gnome Go like interface for our menus.

2011-08-17 Thread Martin Dietze
On Wed, August 17, 2011, Jason Brower wrote: I specifically would like it to pull from the menu and it's items. Not index my entire harddrive. To me, this falls right inline with the menu system. Gnome-do is buggy and uses way to much indexing. I only want a specific set of items that

Re: New Window Maker Website

2011-08-16 Thread Martin Dietze
On Mon, August 15, 2011, Paul Seelig wrote: I think that stable should be replaced by the term legacy, and a stable release should take an empty placeholder instead. The legacy wmaker version should definitely be marked as obviously outdated, with a stable release still waiting to

Re: Step by step instructions...

2011-08-11 Thread Martin Dietze
On Thu, August 11, 2011, Jason Brower wrote: configure.ac:66: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 Looks like

Debian package needs build dep libxmu-dev

2010-08-03 Thread Martin Dietze
See above, could someone please add this to debian/control? Cheers, M'bert -- --- / http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org / - =+= Was ist ein Cluster? Wenn vier Bratscher unisono spielen. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: WINGs++

2010-04-02 Thread Martin Dietze
On Fri, April 02, 2010, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: I also liked the way the buttons look, they seem a bit more 3D. I'd quite appreciate still being able to have WINGs look exactly like the GNUstep apps I run. One way to achieve this would certainly be using GNUstep themes, but there don't seem to

Re: Well the site hasn't changed...

2010-03-15 Thread Martin Dietze
On Mon, March 15, 2010, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: 1) Set up the entire site underneath a CMS: Redmine. It has a nice mercurial integration, and is used by sites such as lighttpd and ruby. http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/WeAreUsingRedmine This is certainly very good news. But