Re: Window Maker on Solaris

[Andreas Höschler]

Hello all,

> > I am tryingto get window maker to work on Solaris 10. I followed the   
> > instructions on http://www.gunfleet.com/solaris/winman.htm and  
> > created  the following files (attached to thi smail):
>
> I have windowmaker and gnustep playing quite nicely with dtlogin on my  
> solaris 2.6 box. I always wanted to document the steps I took (and  
> also publish the special icon I crafted) but never got time to do  
> that. If you care to pop-up on IRC we coult try to synchronize and  
> exchange the necessary files and check the differences. I did that so  
> long ago that I don't remember what I did exactly.

I have managed to get Window Maker to work on Solaris 10 as described  
below. I now get a black screen, a working xterm and a working "Window  
Maker Preferences". I also found a file that tells me how to configure  
the menu. I suppose the next steps wold be to build apps like Dock.app  
or GWorkspace.app (will do so tonight). However, who's responsile for  
the background image in Window Maker. I saw a screen shot on the web  
showing the Window Maker with the blue background picture from MacOSX.  
Since I am used to that I would like to have that as well, versus the  
current black screen. The menus Appearance - Themes and Appearance -  
Styles do nothing for me. It sseems some resources are still missing.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

  Andreas

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Get and install the following software from the Sun Download Center:

        /usr/bin/bunzip2 Depend-sparc-pkgs.tar.bz2
        tar xvf Depend-sparc-pkgs.tar
        cd Depend-sparc-pkgs

        pkgadd -d SFWgcmn
        pkgadd -d SFWgcc34l
        pkgadd -d SFWgcc2l
        pkgadd -d SFWungif
        pkgadd -d SFWimlib

        /usr/bin/bunzip2 SFWwmkr.bz2
        pkgadd -d SFWwmkr

        pico /opt/sfw/READMEs/README.SFWwmkr
        
        mkdir /etc/dt/config/C
        mkdir /etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/

        pico /etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xresources.windowmaker
        pico /etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xsession.windowmaker

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/etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xresources.windowmaker
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Dtlogin*altDtsIncrement:        True
Dtlogin*altDtName:              WindowMaker
Dtlogin*altDtKey:               /opt/sfw/bin/wmaker
Dtlogin*altDtStart:              
/etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xsession.windowmaker
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/etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xsession.windowmaker
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BALDIR="/opt/sfw/share/WindowMaker"
GLOBALDEFDIR="/opt/sfw/etc/WindowMaker"
ERDIR=$HOME
VERSION="0.80.2"
BINDIR="/opt/sfw/bin"
/opt/sfw/bin/wmaker
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        chmod a+x  /etc/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xsession.windowmaker

Then run

        /opt/sfw/bin/wmaker.inst

for each user wanting to use Window Maker. When asked whether to modify  
.xinitrc press Control-C since we want to choose Window Makaer from the  
dtlogin menu. If .xinitrc exists, remove it.