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starhawk · Last edited by starhawk on Fri 13 Jan 2012, 17:31; edited 1 time in total

Hey, trying to compile WMX in Wary 511-Uniproc. I have attached what I have after running "compile" and "make" (in that order) and screenshots of the output from the console after running "make".

Seems to find a goof somewhere, but I don't know cr*p about C, so I don't know what to do to fix it... if someone could tell me what to do, that would be very helpful here.

starhawk · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 00:46 Post subject:

Update... did some goooooooooooogling around... looks like it's really a gcc error (you can tell how much I know about this stuff, right?)...

The specific errors relate to two lines, each in a different file. The files are Menu.C and Menu.h, and it's line 624 in Menu.C and line 92 in Menu.h...

Here's the specific bits of code; the numbers at the front of each line are (duh) line numbers...

Menu.C:

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Go to line 624 of Menu.C and make this change.

starhawk · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 12:02 Post subject:

Thank you, Jemimah! That worked quite well...

Always an honor to receive help from someone as accomplished as you!

starhawk · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 13:57 Post subject:

Everything works... except for the keybindings. I think I know where I messed up, though.

xmodmap reveals the key code for the left alt key (for a menu popup) to be:

starhawk · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 18:22 Post subject:

Betcha ya'll are all chucklin' at me fer that one. I didn't know, but "Alt_L" and "Meta_L" are two different keys that are mapped, on my keyboard, to the same key!

In related news, I still can't figure this one out. I've sent off an email to the developer (a Chris Cannam); I'll post here when I hear back.

If anyone else has some other suggestions, though, that would be right nifty.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 19:41 Post subject:

Hello, starhawk.

Nope, not chuckling at all. I'm actually glad someone else is interested in this nice window manager.

I did 3-4 compiles of the previous version (7), with various colours, and came upon the same problems as you did with the wmx bindkeys. Spent hours and hours trying to figure them out...

See this thread: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=645938557&t=39411&start=15

I succeeded partially because jemimah -- angel that she is -- gave me a few hints, as she did to you. And also because I didn't fixate on that "keys" problem.

Compile with a regular Alt+key combination. The Puppy keyboard doesn't come with the default wmx bindkeys configured anyway. So you'd have to rebuild Puppy just to have access to those keys. Not worth the trouble since there are work-arounds.

For example, use the xbindkeys program and bind say, < Shift-right-click > to aragon's spm (aka aemenu) to have a more standard and manageable menu? Just my 2 cents.

Another thing if I may, which I discovered recently. To solve the problem of thin menus in wmx, put a dummy file/directory with a long(er) line in it. This will spread the menu and make it easier to navigate it when it pops up.

Bye for now.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 19:46 Post subject:

BTW, starhawk, I rock !!! Wink

starhawk · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 20:09 Post subject:

I see you speak French... Bonjour! (I speak it, horribly... my tongue refuses to contort itself sufficiently for proper pronunciation...)

I like your reply to my signature Laughing

What I'm really after is a menu of any sort, so that one does not have to rely on icons alone (or worse, console!) to access programs. If bindkeys is too much trouble, then I'm forced to choose one of two paths:

(1) Use a different WM, or
(2) Ask someone here to write me a menu/tray/applauncher type widget.

I'm a little hesitant with either approach... I really like the look of WMX, but my only coding experience (at least, the only successful coding experience I've had) was with a little interpreted sequential language called QBASIC. Time has long since left that junky stuff behind... and I'm stuck with it!

All I would really need would be an "applauncher" type tray... I think they call it a "dock" on Mac-type systems... nothing flashy, just sits centered in the bottom of the screen with a few useful app icons and a Menu button... maybe even a clock if someone's feeling really extravagant (I don't know about the rest of ya'll, but I use a watch for that). Doesn't even need to be skinnable/themeable.

The only thing is that I can't code a line of C... I could barely figure out what I needed to do in the config.h file! So I would need someone else to do all the work for me, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

starhawk · Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 16:47 Post subject:

Been thinking about this. Guess how I feel is: if someone is willing to do up that menu for me, that would be great, but if no-one will, I can (try to) use fluxbox instead of WMX... guess it doesn't matter that much.

Would also be good if the box on the side of a WMX window closed the window rather than just hiding it...

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

That's the problem with WMX - it doesn't actually have any features. Smile

I think you'll find openbox better than fluxbox.

musher0 · Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 19:20 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 19:30 Post subject:

Starhawk said:
> All I would really need would be an "applauncher" type tray...

Well, there are lots of those here:

spm (simple puppy menu), for example , can be integrated a number of ways, in gkrellm, stalonetray or icedock, even tint, just to name a few.
Packages for those have been either uploaded to the forum or at ibiblio/puppy.

BTW, I downloaded and perused your package, and a question popped up: why were you trying to compile wmx 6pl rather than the latest wmx 7.4 ?

BFN.