new waimea 0.3.4 debian packages

[bigskinnee]

for all of you debian users with
deb http://jay.skabber.com/debian/ ./
in your sources.list an apt-get upgrade will install the latest version of waimea

Please send me any feedback if you have problems
jay@skabber.com

[littleman]

I did the apt-get and had a few problems,

1 it did not use the debian menu, but instead used the generic waimea menu

2 it did not recognize my .waemiarc file



I switched back to waimea_0.0.08212002-1_i386.deb -- it seems to integrate better. I am using sid, if that helps.



One thing, I never could get waimea to recognize ~/.menu/ modifications.



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[Pierre Lambion]

Hi,

I installed latest waimea from source yesterday evening.

Two things to note: make install copy the files to /usr/bin and /usr/share instead of using /usr/local by default.

I had some troubles to get him to use my ~/.waimearc as well. I finally symlinked ~/.waimea/ to /usr/share/waimea and let it look for the waimearc in /usr/share/...

Maybe I missed something, but even running from xinitrc "exec waimea --rcfile ~/.waimearc" did not work.

It seems quite unstable as well (not a blame, this is a developper version).

Cheers,
P.

[bigskinnee]

Things to note about waimea 0.3.4 :
The syntax has changed a bit. littleman this is why your menu and .waimerc file were not working. As of 0.3.4 the best thing to do is copy the default config file to your ~/.waimearc file and edit it to your likeing. I am working on a new version of waiconfig (http://www.socialistsoftware.com/waiconfig.php) that supports the new config options.

Note: in the debs the files are installed to /etc/X11/waimea instead of /usr/share/waimea this is per the Debian policy.

[Hayl]

all i can get is the default as well.

my xinitrc has one line at the moment.

waimea

my ~/.waimearc looks like this:

!
! Waimea system wide configuration. If no ~/.waimearc is found and no
! --rcfile switch is used, waimea reads configuration options from
! this file.
!
screenMask: 0 1 2 3
scriptDir: /etc/X11/waimea/scripts
doubleClickInterval: 300

! Screen 0 configuration
screen0.styleFile: /home/ddicks/.waimea/styles/vloer.style
screen0.menuFile: /etc/X11/waimea/menu
screen0.actionFile: /etc/X11/waimea/actions/action
screen0.colorsPerChannel: 4
screen0.cacheMax: 200
screen0.imageDither: True
screen0.virtualSize: 3x3
screen0.menuStacking: Normal
screen0.transientAbove: True
screen0.dock0.geometry: -0+0
screen0.dock0.order: n/.*/
screen0.dock0.direction: Vertical
screen0.dock0.centered: False
screen0.dock0.gridSpace: 2
screen0.dock0.stacking: AlwaysOnTop
screen0.dock0.inworkspace: False


i copied it from /etc/X11/waimea

[bigskinnee]

I have updated the waimea debs, as there were a few problems.

The debs now add waimea to the WindowManagers list in the default Debian menu. So you can now switch back and forth between waimea an lesser window managers ;)

I now have no problem with the Debian menu coming up by default.

As these debs are not official (yet) I think you will have to apt-get remove waimea and apt-get update apt-get install waimea to get the newest version.

Actually anyone can tell me if waimea is upgraded with an apt-get upgrade that would be great :)

Again any feedback is appreciated.
Jay@skabber.com

[smokybobo]

I just checked and apt-get upgrade worked perfectly for me (going from 0.0.08blahblahblah to 0.3.4).

[sarah31]

one should avoid releasing packages that have not been had a good run through locally.

[smokybobo]

Two bugs in /usr/lib/menu/waimea:

?package(waimea):needs=wm section="WindowMangers" title="waimea" command"waimea"

Should be:

?package(waimea):needs=wm section="WindowManagers" title="waimea" command="waimea"

[bigskinnee]

this is what I just fixed this morning.
The update should have taken care of that. If not try the apt-get update && apt-get remove waimea apt-get && install waimea