Bug#505924: cwm
Hi Nicholas,
Finally found some time to implement these changes!
On 21 Sep 2012, at 01:56, Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> wrote:
> I followed your advice and it works. I can see the attraction of using
> cwm this way. However it might just be a step too far for me as copy and
> paste seems not to work.
That might depend on which software you're using. For example, xterm will only support select-to-copy, middleclick-to-paste whereas eg gnome-terminal supports copy and paste in the Gnome/KDE fashion as well. The window manager itself doesn't restrict this but I know I've had similar frustrations mixing apps from different toolkits.
> then indeed I do get cwm. However the key bindings (as documented in the
> man page) do not work. However I also notice that even under
> LXDE/openbox the xterm key bindings do not work. So I suspect it might
> be an LXDE issue. I'll try and follow up with the LXDE people.
That's interesting. I haven't had a chance to experiment with LXDE but that does sound like something else in its session is trapping key bindings.
> Actually I can fairly easily sponsor you to get access to collab-maint
> and I've done so for people before. On the other hand github is fine and
> I use it for some of my packages. If you really want to own the
> packaging then go for github or equivalent. If you're happy to let DD's
> step in and fix problems directly in the repository then go for
> collab-maint.
Getting access to collab-maint would be great. I have actually pushed my changes to github at https://github.com/jamesmcdonald/cwm/tree/v5.1-debian but I've still not set it up to use git-buildpackage. It's really just so I can track my own changes at this point. I intend to set cwm up for git-based builds in the future, even if just so I can learn how to do that.
> On 20/09/12 15:29, James McDonald wrote:
>>
>> Recommendation might make sense, but not dependency as it's possible to run a window manager on one host for an X server on a remote host. I will look at what some other simple window managers do.
>
> Could be Suggests as well.
I've investigated several other window managers and it looks like they don't make any recommendation/suggestion about having X itself installed. They only recommend associated projects, like metacity recommends gnome-session. On that basis, I should probably omit this.
> I was really hoping that this would be a drop in replacement for
> openbox. I am not clear if this is doable. I am sure that the
> README.Debian should document this (and similar) experiments.
In theory it should be possible to use it like that. Unfortunately it depends on the restrictions imposed by the environment (LXDE, Gnome etc). I shall set up a machine to experiment with this, but I guess it will be a while before I have any coherent documentation. I agree that it would be nice to be able to provide some tips for this sort of usage. Do you feel this is necessary before the package is uploaded?
> Anyway the package seems to do what it says on the tin. So I think there
> is a good chance I should be able to upload your next build.
I've uploaded the latest version to mentors; here's a log from git of the changes I've made:
Fixed double spaces in package description.
Changed debhelper dependency from >=9.0.0 to >=9
Removed references to 9wm from the package description.
Added Provides: x-window-manager
Added scripts to handle x-window-manager alternative
Please let me know what you think.
Cheers,
James
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