On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:11:38PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > 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. >
I have tried this already. I probably wasn't clear in my initial email. I edited the wmii script to point to /tmp/ns.AjeetpalGrewal/. So there is no longer a ":" character in the folder name. Now when I run wmii, I can see that this folder is created. I also see the status bar at the bottom of the screen with the date and everything. However, nothing else works. I mentioned the change in the folder name because I thought it might be important in debugging this problem. > Regards, > -- > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
