Hello, being a user of WMaker since possibly ten years or even more (just can't remember), i never really got used to all these advancements in the Linux GUI development. i tried them all, but always came back. And now Canonical, while creating a wonderful distribution, appears to be ruining the GUI part of the really nice Ubuntu infrastructure. So i tried to figure out a way to remaster the Ubuntu 11.04 installation CD in such a way that it uses WMaker as the default GUI right from the start. I think that i managed this by now. :)
The basic idea of this package is to provide a script environemnt to reconfigure and remaster an existing Ubuntu installation ISO image in such a way that the WindowMaker window manager becomes the default graphical user interface. It also removes all the pointless visual eye candy and games stuff, in order to make plce for more useful and practical sysadmin oriented applications. It is of interest primarily for WMaker enthusiasts who are not really happy with the recent Ubuntu GUI experiments. The conversion is supposed to happen as automatically as possible. It requires to be executed within a chroot session created during the remastering stages of the wonderful UCK, the "Ubuntu Customization Kit", which is part of Ubuntu. As verfied, it is also possible to successfully convert an already existing standard Ubuntu installation applying the routines provided by the wmlive-create package. Please note that this has only been tested with Ubuntu 11.04/Natty Narwhal, so far. To apply this procedure, run uck-gui or uck-remaster to first configure the remastering basis. Once the chroot console is running, just copy the contents of wmlive-create to anywhere in the root file system of the chroot environment. Change to this directory within the chroot session and execute the mkwmlive command. Please check www.rumbero.org/wmlive for the wmlive-create_0.20.tar.xz package and download it. Please try to apply it and tell us about it. You can either remaster the Ubuntu 11.04 Live CD via UCK, or even apply the wmlive-create routine to an already installed Ubuntu 11.04 system. Just don't blame me for any issues if you were so foolish as to run it on one of your production machines. I developed and tested this procedure exclusively in KVM virtual machines, so hopefully i haven't overlooked anything important which might eat your hard disk contents. Please tell me what you think about it. Best regards Paul -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
