On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Eitan Goldshtrom wrote:
I've been told that Ubuntu might not be the best choice for running wmii. I
really only did it because at the time, and still really, I was only familiar
with
Ubuntu and didn't/don't have the time to familiarize myself with how to get
around another linux distro -- I'm a thesising college student. But once I'm
done with
school I fully plan on moving to another distro, not just because of wmii
*caugh*ubuntu sucks*caugh*. Lucky for me right now, however, the new build works
perfectly. However Ubuntu does things seems to have made it so the upgrade
build took hold automatically. So I'm good to go. Thanks everyone for the help.
-Eitan
On 01/24/2011 02:34 AM, Jeremy Jackins wrote:
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Eitan Goldshtrom
<thesource...@gmail.com> wrote:
So I had already done that, which made me wonder why you were
suggesting it, because obviously I must have done something wrong when I
tried to hg that URL. I hadn't realized that I needed to build that
after getting it. I did and everything worked. I built wmii-3.9.2.
Which leaves me now wondering, what next? I'm using
Ubuntu.
When I installed from the Ubuntu Software Center it added an option at the
login for me to change desktop environments. Will this new build
override that or do I need to do something else? I am under the impression
that putting the expected line of code to start wmii with startx
will not work for Ubuntu? If this is reaching outside the realm of wmii I
can ask elsewhere.
-Eitan
Yes, you might want to take some of these questions to something like the
Ubuntu IRC channel. You can use startx with Ubuntu but it's not really the
Ubuntu
way of doing things. Really, if you want to be using software like wmii maybe
Ubuntu is not the right place for you...
I normally just lurk on the mailing list, although I may have a potential
solution for Eitan.
I have put together a wmii fronted remaster of PCLinuxOS admittedly it
uses wmii 3.6 at this time (with dwm for an alternate desktop) with a
selection of apps (both GUI and CLI) that I think work well together.
In putting it together I have developed an ever increasing love of apps
that are lighter, quicker and simply suckless.
Eitan, If you are interested it taking a look here is the link to the
thread (and download link) on the PCLinuxOS forums
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,84400.msg699944.html#msg699944
Finally I want to thank the dev's at suckless.org not just for the great
apps but also for opening my eyes.
Thanks for reading
Jase
