On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:43:49PM +0000, Michal wrote:
Hello.

I need some help with getting latest snapshot to run on FreeBSD
(9base-b20060209, dmenu-4.0, libixp-0.5).

Latest wmii release (3.6) works like a charm on the same machine but
when I install wmii+ixp-20090703 something is not right, i.e. there is
nothing on a status bar (just "1" indicating current view) and key
bindings doesn't seem to work, I cannot open xterm and so on.
~/.xsession-errors says:
  9: No such file or directory
  namespace: No such file or directory
  rc (/usr/local/9/bin/rc): null list in concatenation
  Action: not found

There is no wmii-devel port at the moment so I used a Makefile that I
found in archives of this list, maybe that's the problem? Please see
Makefile attached.

Any suggestions are very welcome, thank you in advance.

That makefile is definately somewhat dated. The PLIST is more than a bit sparse. Anyway, you don't need dmenu anymore. As for the errors, noone really uses 9base anymore, so wmii isn't well tested with it. As it turns out, wmii lately makes use of the '9' script and the 'namespace' utility, which 9base doesn't provide. That's easily remedied, though. In the mean time, you can either install plan9port (sudo pkg_add -r plan9port), or use another rc script (wmiirc, or alternative_wmiircs/python).


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