Yeah -- pretty much what I expected: no surprises under Gentoo. Sunaku's github wmiirc setup works with out-of-the-box WMII 3.9.2.
... now if I could only figure out why Ruby 1.9.2 is constantly at around 50% CPU utilization ... blech! ;-) Thanks for the help, __armando On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Armando Di Cianno <arma...@goodship.net> wrote: > ATM I have a shiny new comp, so i'm in a "I have a hammer, and > everything looks like a nail"-situation. I'm going to reinstall > Gentoo, as I'd like to get a Linux distro and WMII installed, to be > productive (suddenly realized I wasn't in the mood to learn > Ubuntu/Debian). When I get to the WMII install, if the issue with > 3.9.2 disappears, or is resolved by using hg tip, I'll post my results > here. > > Thanks, and cheers, > __armando > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Armando Di Cianno wrote: >>> >>> I have a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 install, and compiled and installed the >>> tarball of wmii 3.9.2 via 'make deb' and dpkg. >>> >>> When using the default sh wmiirc, I have to manually set WMII_CONFPATH >>> to ~/.wmii, or it tries writing to "/.wmii/foo". I set this in my >>> ~/.bashrc, which does make it into my environment >>> >>> I followed sunaku's directions on the github wmiirc ruby page. I've >>> used wmii on gentoo before, but wanted to get a setup going on Ubuntu >>> before I started before modding stuff. However, while the window >>> manager is running and managing windows, I don't get the menu. I've >>> installed 'suckless-tools' package as well, in case it was trying to >>> use dmenu. >>> >>> I thought that (for the same reason as WMII_CONFPATH) I might have to >>> define WMII_NAMESPACE explicitly, but that doesn't seem to help. >>> >>> So ... help! Ideas? >> >> I can't say for certain, but I believe that the version of Suraj's wmiirc on >> github is currently compatible with wmii-hg rather than the 3.9 release. >> >> -- >> Kris Maglione >> >> Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad >> judgement. >> --Fred Brooks >> >> >> >
