Re: [wmii] Cygwin problem

> 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
>
>

I edited my wmii file to use sed to replace any created colons with an
underscore. That worked for me. I also quoted my home dir, because at the
time I was stupidly using my windows home dir for cygwin.

#!/bin/sh
# start wmiiwm and wait for its termination

wmiiwm -c || exit 1

OLD_PATH=$PATH export OLD_PATH
PATH=$HOME/.wmii-3:CONFPREFIX/wmii-3:$PATH export PATH
BLE=`echo /tmp/ns.$USER.${DISPLAY%.0} | sed 's|:|_|'`
WMII_ADDRESS=unix!$BLE/wmii export WMII_ADDRESS

mkdir -m 700 $BLE 2>/dev/null
wmiiwm -a $WMII_ADDRESS &
wmiiwmpid=$!
mkdir "$HOME/.wmii-3" 2>/dev/null && welcome &
wmiirc &
wait $wmiiwmpid
Received on Tue Jan 30 2007 - 12:38:59 UTC