On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:48:13AM +0530, Ajeetpal Grewal wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a working copy of wmii on my linux box. > > On Cygwin however, there are some issues. First I could not create a > directory on cygwin with the character ":" in the name. This is the default > implementation in the wmii script. I got an error like this > > wmiiwm: can't stat namespace directory "/tmp/ns.AjeetpalGrewal.:0/": No such > file or directory
Yes, that's because Windows does not support the ':' character > I changed this to just use /tmp/ns.AjeetpalGrewal/ as the directory. However, > when I try to do "wmiir ls /" I get "ixpc: connot connect to server". > Although I see the status bar at the bottom of my screen, the rest of the > functionality is missing, for example none of the menus pops up ( i have > dmenu installed), neither can I use the modifier keys. > > What could be the problem? The implementation does not seem to depend on the > ":" occurring in the directory name. Does anyone have a workaround??? Simply edit PREFIX/bin/wmii and change WMII_NS_DIR to something which does not includes the ':' character. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
