[Tfug] wdm on Debian woe - workaround and rant

[Judd Pickell]

Is it an embedded wireless device? or something that you could go down to
the store and replace for 40 bucks? Just curious.. Seems like a lot of
frustration if it isn't embedded.. :)


On 9/22/06, Neil Short <neshort at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- Neil Short <neshort at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > .....
> >
> > > Also wdm's Xsession script uses:
> > >
> > > startup=$HOME/.xsession
> > > ...
> > > if [ -x $startup ]; then
> > >         exec $startup
> > > fi
> > >
> >
> > Strange. My wdm Xsession script is really pared down
> > from what I'm used to seeing on other systems:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > # This is an Xsession wrapper for use with wdm to
> > take
> > care of the
> > # handling of the 'NoChange' window manager
> > selection
> > option.
> >
> > if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
> >   echo $1 >$HOME/.wm_style
> >   shift
> > fi
> >
> >
> >
> > exec /etc/X11/Xsession `cat $HOME/.wm_style` $@
> > $
> >
> > >
> > > Your ~/.xsession must be executable. Even the
> > README
> > > and INSTALL docs
> >
> >
> > it is
> >
> > ======
> > Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor
> > the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and
> > his ways are justice; and he is able to bring low
> > those who walk in pride.
> > Daniel 4:37
> >
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>
> ok. workaround and rant:
>
> modification to /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # This is an Xsession wrapper for use with wdm to take
> care of the
> # handling of the 'NoChange' window manager selection
> option.
>
> if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
>   echo $1 >$HOME/.wm_style
>   shift
> fi
>
> ### the following added by me #########
> startup=$HOME/.xsession
> if [ -x $startup ]; then
>         exec $startup
> fi
> ### the previous added by me ########
>
> exec /etc/X11/Xsession `cat $HOME/.wm_style` $@
>
> ========
> and I just start up my favorite window manager from
> ~/.session
>
>
> <rant>
> I tried to compile and install wdm from source but the
> configure step wouldn't complete because -- what?
> The Debian install of WindowMaker is [also] so
> modified by the port maintainer that the configure
> script can't find some important wmaker tools -- which
> in fact do not exist on the system.
>
> I guess I would be happy as a peach if I were content
> to accept the default behavior and the fact that I am
> restricted from customizing it; but I know that wdm
> was made to be customized - but the port of wdm is
> not.
>
> The reason I am using Linux at all (instead of BSD) in
> this case is because the BSD driver for the wireless
> Atheros device is a piece of junk. Linux, as far as I
> can tell, has no Atheros driver - but the one that is
> circulated is a proprietary closed-source precompiled
> blob; but it at least works.
> </rant>
>
> The nice thing about linux is the fast zero-to-sixty
> administration.
>
> And it still has the far less-klunky behavior and more
> friendly culture than the winD'OH!s.
>
> ======
> Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for
> all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; and he is able to bring
> low those who walk in pride.
> Daniel 4:37
>
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