Bug#505924: cwm

[Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>]

James,
	I am delighted to hear from you.

	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.

	I have managed to get cwm sort of working. If I edit
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf so that the first section is:

[Session]
window_manager=cwm-lxde

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.


>> 5.) "And if you don't use a VCS for your packaging, you should remove
>> those commented-out lines."
>> Have you considered using collab-maint as a repository?
>> http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject?highlight=%28CategoryAlioth%29
>
> I don't think I can use that without being a Debian
> developer/maintainer. I am considering moving the packaging into a git
> repository, possibly tracking from upstream, but I haven't had the
> time
> to experiment with this. The changes are very small at present, so
> they are quite easy to maintain without.
>

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.

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 will make some changes as soon as I can! It might take a few days though, as I'm rather busy at the moment.
> 
> Cheers,
> James

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.

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.

Nicholas