Re: [wmii] [ANN] wmii 3.6 released

From: Ruben Gonzalez Arnau <ruben_AT_cirdanetireth.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:44:41 +0100 (CET)

>> Greetin's,
>> After much procrastination and sitting around on our asses, suckless
>> has released wmii 3.6!
>> You'll find it at http://suckless.org/download/wmii-3.6.tar.gz
>> Changes:
>> * New colour scheme!
>>
>> Yep, that's all. Hey, it worked for pokémon!
>> ...Just kidding. We also broke fullscreen support.
>>
>> Okay seriously, new features since 3.5.1:
>> * Move and resize windows with the mouse[1]
>> * Make clients visible in multiple tags[2]
>> * Move floating windows partially off screen
>> * Application independent fullscreen functionality[3]
>> * Support for the aspect ratio window hint
>> * Support for urgent window hints[4]
>> * Drag and drop in GTK apps and xprop support[5]
>>
>> [1] Resize columns by dragging the triangle dividers at the top of the
>> screen or the [tiny] border between columns. Move/resize clients by
>> dragging their grabbox (the box at the top left of the window).
>> [2] Tag a client as 1+2+www and it will appear in tags 1, 2 and www.
>> Tag it with +www and it will appear in the "www" tag in addition to
>> what it was already tagged, or -www to remove it from the www tag.
>> [3] MOD-f to toggle, or right click a client's title and select
>> Fullscreen (you need MOD-f to get back).
>> [4] Urgent hints change the colour of the client's grabbox and
>> generate an UrgentTag event, which the default wmiirc uses to mark the
>> tag with a *.
>> [5] Thanks wabu!
>>
>> Finally, there are a couple of filesystem/wmiirc interface changes.
>> Now, everything is similar enough that the CONFVERSION hasn't changed,
>> so wmii-3.6 still looks in ~/.wmii-3.5, but if you've got custom
>> scripts there's a couple of things to watch out for:
>> * X11 window ids are now used to identify clients instead of an internal
>> wmii id
>> * /tag/*/ctl contains information about the focused column/client and
>> column modes instead of just the tag name
>> * /colrules doesn't cause new columns to be created on client creation
>> anymore, it just specifies the % size of each column when they get
>> created
>> * WMII_MENU, WMII_TERM and WMII_9MENU are now quoted and need to be
>> eval'd, so that everything still works when WMII_FONT contains spaces
>>
>> Alright. It's been a long time coming, and could certainly be better
>> (see NOTES for a list of known bugs), but here we are. Let us know of
>> any problems.
>> -sqweek
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> On Debian Lenny I haven't label/fonts on tags etc. I was deleted all old
> config, testing with a new user and I still have the same problem. but if
> I launch wmii with user root all works fine. Any idea?
>
> 3.6 Release -> Same error.
> wmii-20071003 -> Same error.
> wmii+ixp-20070516 -> Works perfect.
>
> http://www.cirdanetireth.com/wmii3.6.jpg <-- see tags.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>

As user I see that, maybe the problem comes from here ...

% fn Event-CreateTag { echo $WMII_NORMCOLORS `{viewtitle $*} | wmiir
create /lbar/$"* }
% Event-CreateTag
wmiir: fatal: Can't create file '/lbar/': permission denied

Any idea?

Thanks again.
Received on Mon Nov 19 2007 - 18:45:13 UTC

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