Brandin Creech wrote:
--- Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My overall situation is that I'm installing Window Maker. There's a gui
for configuring it once it's installed. My problem is that the tabs for
selecting the different functions aren't labeled--they're blank.
I had this problem too. Try running WPrefs from the console and you'll notice
some "file not found" errors being spit out by the program. That's why the
icons are not being displayed. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly where it
is looking for the icons, or how to fix it; I've been able to configure
Window Maker without actually seeing the icons (: so unfortunately I haven't
been very motivated to find a fix. If you manage to fix it, please let me
know how you did it.
The simple answer is compile with --with-gnustepdir=<path to Wprefs>
CAUTION: make-install installs [path]/Applications. So if you want
WPrefs in [path]/Applications, just use --with-gnustepdir=[path] or you
will get [path]/Applications/Applications.
WARNING: The following contains a long, drawn out explanation of how I
found this, including a rant. If you just want Wprefs to work, use what
I suggested and don't read any further.
The files for which WPrefs was looking were the icons for the tabs. If
you compiled with --prefix=/usr, the icons were in /usr/share/WPrefs.
But WPrefs couldn't find them. No matter how I tried to configure
Window Maker or WPrefs, the GUI couldn't find them. [begin rant]There
is zip, zero, nada documentation for WPrefs AND the single item I found,
the README in the WPrefs.app directory of the source tree, is out of
date. This adventure exemplified all my pet peeves about documentation
in Linux. [end rant]
Excerpt from that README:
By default, WPrefs.app will be installed in the GNUstep applications directory,
which is /usr/local/GNUstep/Applications. If you want to install it somewhere
else, like in /some_weird_path/Applications, set the GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT
environment variable to some_weird_path before running configure for
WindowMaker. You can also configure Window Maker supplying the --with-appspath
option to configure, like ./configure --with-appspath=/usr/GNUstep/Applications
If you change your mind after installing, you can move the .app directory
to one of the following GNUstep/Applications directories:
/usr/GNUstep/Applications
OR
/usr/local/GNUstep/Applications
OR
~/GNUstep/Applications
Notice "--with-appspath=[blah-blah]" I just happened to look at the
NEWS file in the top level of the source tree and discovered that in
going from Window Maker 0.91.0 to 0.92.0 this switch got changed to the
with-gnustepdir switch. This discovery occurred after I had rebuilt
twice with failed WPrefs. Additionally, if you copy /usr/share/WPrefs
to one of the directories indicated above, you must copy as
<directory you want>/Wprefs.app.
This was intense, but it's fixed.
Back to configuring.
Dan
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