Re: [dev] Problem starting wmii with fresh ruby github wmiirc

ATM I have a shiny new comp, so i'm in a "I have a hammer, and
everything looks like a nail"-situation. I'm going to reinstall
Gentoo, as I'd like to get a Linux distro and WMII installed, to be
productive (suddenly realized I wasn't in the mood to learn
Ubuntu/Debian). When I get to the WMII install, if the issue with
3.9.2 disappears, or is resolved by using hg tip, I'll post my results
here.

Thanks, and cheers,
__armando

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Armando Di Cianno wrote:
>>
>> I have a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 install, and compiled and installed the
>> tarball of wmii 3.9.2 via 'make deb' and dpkg.
>>
>> When using the default sh wmiirc, I have to manually set WMII_CONFPATH
>> to ~/.wmii, or it tries writing to "/.wmii/foo". I set this in my
>> ~/.bashrc, which does make it into my environment
>>
>> I followed sunaku's directions on the github wmiirc ruby page. I've
>> used wmii on gentoo before, but wanted to get a setup going on Ubuntu
>> before I started before modding stuff. However, while the window
>> manager is running and managing windows, I don't get the menu. I've
>> installed 'suckless-tools' package as well, in case it was trying to
>> use dmenu.
>>
>> I thought that (for the same reason as WMII_CONFPATH) I might have to
>> define WMII_NAMESPACE explicitly, but that doesn't seem to help.
>>
>> So ... help! Ideas?
>
> I can't say for certain, but I believe that the version of Suraj's wmiirc on
> github is currently compatible with wmii-hg rather than the 3.9 release.
>
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> Kris Maglione
>
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Received on Fri Nov 12 2010 - 20:18:55 CET