hi,
i installed wmii from openSuse Windowmanager repository. installation works fine, and i can start wmii. then however i only have a green background and a white empty “taskbar” at the bottom. alt + p, alt + enter, nothing works. i see the mouse, but cant do anything with it eiter.
what to do? couldn’t compile it either…
thx in advance!
make gives out following:
brian@linux:~/GFX/wmii-3.6> make
MAKE all libutf/
CC libutf/rune.o
CC libutf/runestrcat.o
CC libutf/runestrchr.o
CC libutf/runestrcmp.o
CC libutf/runestrcpy.o
CC libutf/runestrdup.o
CC libutf/runestrlen.o
CC libutf/runestrecpy.o
CC libutf/runestrncat.o
CC libutf/runestrncmp.o
CC libutf/runestrncpy.o
CC libutf/runestrrchr.o
CC libutf/runestrstr.o
CC libutf/runetype.o
CC libutf/utfecpy.o
libutf/utfecpy.c:26: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memccpy’
libutf/utfecpy.c:26: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
CC libutf/utflen.o
CC libutf/utfnlen.o
CC libutf/utfrrune.o
CC libutf/utfrune.o
CC libutf/utfutf.o
AR lib/libutf.a
MAKE all libfmt/
CC libfmt/dofmt.o
CC libfmt/dorfmt.o
CC libfmt/errfmt.o
CC libfmt/fltfmt.o
CC libfmt/fmt.o
CC libfmt/fmtfd.o
libfmt/fmtfd.c:43: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
CC libfmt/fmtfdflush.o
libfmt/fmtfdflush.c:30: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
CC libfmt/fmtlock.o
CC libfmt/fmtprint.o
CC libfmt/fmtquote.o
CC libfmt/fmtrune.o
CC libfmt/fmtstr.o
CC libfmt/fmtvprint.o
CC libfmt/fprint.o
CC libfmt/print.o
CC libfmt/runefmtstr.o
CC libfmt/runeseprint.o
CC libfmt/runesmprint.o
CC libfmt/runesnprint.o
CC libfmt/runesprint.o
CC libfmt/runevseprint.o
CC libfmt/runevsmprint.o
libfmt/runevsmprint.c:33: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
libfmt/runevsmprint.c:44: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
libfmt/runevsmprint.c:64: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
CC libfmt/runevsnprint.o
CC libfmt/seprint.o
CC libfmt/smprint.o
CC libfmt/snprint.o
CC libfmt/sprint.o
libfmt/sprint.c:31: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
CC libfmt/strtod.o
CC libfmt/vfprint.o
CC libfmt/vseprint.o
CC libfmt/vsmprint.o
libfmt/vsmprint.c:33: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
libfmt/vsmprint.c:44: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
libfmt/vsmprint.c:64: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
CC libfmt/vsnprint.o
CC libfmt/charstod.o
CC libfmt/pow10.o
CC libfmt/nan64.o
AR lib/libfmt.a
MAKE all libbio/
CC libbio/bbuffered.o
CC libbio/bfildes.o
CC libbio/bflush.o
CC libbio/bgetc.o
CC libbio/bgetd.o
CC libbio/bgetrune.o
CC libbio/binit.o
CC libbio/boffset.o
CC libbio/bprint.o
CC libbio/bvprint.o
CC libbio/bputc.o
CC libbio/bputrune.o
CC libbio/brdline.o
CC libbio/brdstr.o
CC libbio/bread.o
CC libbio/bseek.o
CC libbio/bwrite.o
AR lib/libbio.a
MAKE all libregexp/
CC libregexp/regcomp.o
CC libregexp/regerror.o
CC libregexp/regexec.o
CC libregexp/regsub.o
CC libregexp/regaux.o
CC libregexp/rregexec.o
CC libregexp/rregsub.o
AR lib/libregexp9.a
MAKE all cmd/
CC cmd/util.o
cmd/util.c:100: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strdup’
cmd/util.c:100: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
CC cmd/wmii9menu.o
LD cmd/wmii9menu.O
FILTER cmd/wmii9rc.sh
FILTER cmd/wmiiloop.sh
CC cmd/wmiir.o
cmd/wmiir.c:11:17: error: ixp.h: No such file or directory
cmd/wmiir.c:15: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘attribute’ before ‘’ token
cmd/wmiir.c:28: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_errbuf’
cmd/wmiir.c:28: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘fmtstrcpy’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
cmd/wmiir.c:33: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘’ token
cmd/wmiir.c:49: error: ‘Stat’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: error: ‘st1’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: error: ‘st2’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:49: warning: left-hand operand of comma expression has no effect
cmd/wmiir.c:51: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token
cmd/wmiir.c:52: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token
cmd/wmiir.c:71: error: ‘P9_DMDIR’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:85: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ctime_r’
cmd/wmiir.c:91: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
cmd/wmiir.c:107: error: ‘IxpCFid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:107: error: ‘fid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:116: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_open’
cmd/wmiir.c:116: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:116: error: ‘P9_OWRITE’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:120: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘write_data’
cmd/wmiir.c:121: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_close’
cmd/wmiir.c:127: error: ‘IxpCFid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:127: error: ‘fid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:137: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:137: error: ‘P9_OWRITE’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:157: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_write’
cmd/wmiir.c:166: error: ‘IxpCFid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:166: error: ‘fid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:175: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_create’
cmd/wmiir.c:175: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:175: error: ‘P9_OWRITE’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:179: error: ‘P9_DMDIR’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:195: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_remove’
cmd/wmiir.c:195: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:202: error: ‘IxpCFid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:202: error: ‘fid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:212: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:212: error: ‘P9_OREAD’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:217: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_read’
cmd/wmiir.c:229: error: ‘IxpMsg’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:229: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘m’
cmd/wmiir.c:230: error: ‘Stat’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:230: error: ‘stat’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:231: error: ‘IxpCFid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:231: error: ‘fid’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:251: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_stat’
cmd/wmiir.c:251: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:255: error: ‘P9_DMDIR’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:256: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘print_stat’
cmd/wmiir.c:257: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_freestat’
cmd/wmiir.c:262: error: ‘P9_OREAD’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:271: error: ‘m’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:271: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_message’
cmd/wmiir.c:271: error: ‘MsgUnpack’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:277: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_pstat’
cmd/wmiir.c:335: error: ‘client’ undeclared
cmd/wmiir.c:335: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_mount’
cmd/wmiir.c:346: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘ixp_unmount’
make[1]: *** [wmiir.o] Error 1
make: *** [dall] Error 2
“… installed wmii from openSuse Windowmanager repository. installation works fine, and i can start wmii. then however i only have a green background and a white empty “taskbar” at the bottom. alt + p, alt + enter, nothing works…”
Try manually copying /etc/X11/wmii/* to the automatically-created $HOME/.wmii-3.5 while in another window manager, and log into ‘wmii’.
I’ve had the same problems, including trying to compile (from suckless.org). Actually mine is wmii-3.6.0-6.1 from OSB/home:/mmj/??? (search for ‘wmii’ in opensuse.org, use 1-click Install). I don’t know whether the copying of the files did the trick or all the mucking around with install/compile somehow nudged something into place. Good luck; I’m using ‘wmii’ now – edited files to change ‘xterm’ to ‘mlterm’.
THANK YOU, that helped!!
could i have a link to the window managers repo, i can’t find it?
Just use Software search and search for the application you want to install.
For example:
(P.S. If you had read the posts in this thread, you would have found a link to the Repo.)
lol my bad, my eyes are going at me, i didn’t see it was a link