On 2015-03-11 18:48:58, Toby Slight <tobysli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [...] > > Hi there, > > I wasn't sure whether to start a new thread or just reply to this relevant > one. Apologies if it's bad form to bump such an old thread. Are mailing > lists the same as forums in that regard? > > Anyway, I was just looking into updating the WindowMaker port, and thought > I better search the archive beforehand, in case anyone else was doing > anything with it, and I'm glad I did! > > However, nothing seems to have come from the work Timo did over a year ago, > and WindowMaker has actually been updated to 0.95.6 since. Does anyone know > why this update never made it into the tree? > > Anyway, I tried using the 0.95.5 update as a template for a 0.95.6 port > but couldn't get it to build - it failed at the configure stage with the > script not being able to find libXmu for some reason (despite the > /usr/X11R6/lib and include paths being correct, and Timo's updated 0.95.5 > compiling and running just fine - I'm actually using it right now!). > > It's probably a really minor thing, but I'm too much of a noob to be able > to quickly get the bottom of it, and before I invested any more time, I > thought I had better check whether or not Timo or anyone else has since > done any work on this port? Don't want to step on any toes.... >
I was a user of WindowMaker back when this was submitted (I haven't used it in years, though I stopped because I moved and didn't have space for my desktop. I'm not sure if I'll start using it again or not, since I've become very accustomed to CWM on my laptop now). The problem it had was that 0.95.2 introduced a lot of regressions and bugs that made it unusable. See this thread for details: http://marc.info/?t=133027239100001&r=1&w=3 Particularly these: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=133569328101710&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=133194866716250&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=133151145814675&w=2 Note in particular the last one, where I detail a reliable way to get keyboard shortcuts to spawn multiple windows of the application they're linked to. Do it once and two windows spawn per keypress. Do it again and three spawn. I stopped after I could get five windows to spawn with a single keypress. Since I don't use WindowMaker anymore (and may not again, since I like CWM so much more) I can't test this, but please at least verify that the new bugs in 0.95.2 that I detailed in the above post have been fixed in 0.95.6. If these bugs have been fixed, and no new ones have been introduced, then I will leave it up to other WindowMaker users to decide if this update is stable enough to go in. -- Bryan
