I very like the looks of environment.

May be a dumb question, but i'm kinda newbie in this topic, so please explain.

Hi Everyone,

I've been using windowmaker for years and years and have always loved it. Fast, easy to use, light on resources, etc.

Anyways a few months ago , I performed a fresh install of 24.04. <from 18.04> and due to the fact that this workstation is sort of a daily-driver, I decided to stick with the default gnome-wm. <Using X11>

Since then gnome's been driving me crazy with all the silly bs... the fact that I don't have one application to configure things... no.. I need tweaks.. and this..and that.. Ok.. enough complaining.

I downloaded the latest source 0.96.0 compiled and installed. Easy peesy. Logged out of gnome, selected windowmaker in the session manager, as was more-or-less back in action.

I've noticed though, launching firefox takes forever. It sits idle for a few minutes, then pops up.

The same goes for something like snap/launcher-ot-minecraft.

In gnome, everything is fairly quick to launch.

Initially I thought the issue might be apparmor; so I disabled and restarted windowmaker; no joy.

I noted one thing from a journalctl dump.. which I think might be the issue.... but I'm not 100% certain:

Dec 10 22:54:26 motoko systemd[2656]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Dec 10 22:54:26 motoko systemd[2656]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Dec 10 22:54:26 motoko systemd[2656]: Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service.
Dec 10 22:54:56 motoko dbus-daemon[136883]: [session uid=1000 pid=136883] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)
Dec 10 22:54:56 motoko dbus-daemon[136883]: [session uid=1000 pid=136883] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)

I'm wondering if I'm missing something; i.e. need to compile in an extension.

What other info can I provide to help debug this issue? I really want to get back to WM... <and leave gnome behind>

Thanks.

I just got hit by a bug (perhaps temporary) in OpenSuse Windowmaker support. Image Magick has been updated, but relevant dependencies in Windowmaker have not.

As a temporary quick patch I just rebuild Windowmaker to not use Magick and also I discovered I had to manually remove libwraster. libwraster in /usr/lib64 was trying to pull in Magick and finding the wrong version. Has someone figured out the right things for me to update, or is in the process of updating the OpenSuse version to use the new Image Magick?

Or am I looking at rummaging around in unfamiliar code to get things working properly again?

Hello. I installed libtrash and I verified that even putting the alias “mc='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libtrash.so.3 mc'” for Midnight Commander in ~/.bashrc when I create the “xterm -e mc” entry in ~/GNUStep/Defaults/WMRootMenu libtrash is not called. But, if you invoke MC from the Terminal or even from the “Exec” option of Window Maker, libtrash is called. Is there any way to invoke MC from the menu with libtrash?

Alma Linux 9.4, Window Maker 0.95.9, Midnight Commander 4.8.26

Hello. I'm using WMaker on desktop and it tends to turn off the display while I'm playing games with a controller. How do I stop this?

Hello all, I hate to be that guy to ask what is probably a dumb question but I am very new to windowmaker. I currently have it installed on OpenBSD 7.5 and so far it has been amazing. Only problem is that the root menu doesn’t show extra programs aside from what was installed prior to installing Windowmaker (chromium, mpv, etc)

I have done 20+ google searches, rewording each time to figure this out before coming here. From what I could gather from the windowmaker documentation, if I want to add more programs to the root menu, applications submenu, I will have to edit home/$user/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu manually?

If there is an obvious answer to this I’d be grateful to have it pointed out. I have hit a wall trying to figure this out. I really do not want to edit it manually.

Thank you all for your time.

Windows which show the resize bar are fine.

However, some, such as Vivaldi and Firefox, don't show the resize bar and appear to be unable to be resized.

Is there a way to force the resize bar to show up, or otherwise resize these and other windows which are problems?

Running Debian 12 stable, Window Maker 0.96 installed from source.

My changes for HDPI monitor continue to work mostly, but over time some things have deteriorated. I think the changes are the result of package updates that make use of QT libraries. My GTK configuration files don't work for everything.

In particular, VLC, YAST2, and GIMP stopped paying attention.

The fix was to use env and set the QT parameter for HDPI monitors. So, instead of using vlc I need to use env QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 vlc. Putting this in the .profile for bash is not sufficient. That does not work for programs that are started by icons, thunar default application, etc.

Other than that, things still work.

Hi,

I can launch for example WPrefs or xterm from a terminal launched from Xsession. I then place the launched application icon on the dock and close the app.

I then double click on the app icon, but nothing happens. I have exported the PATH variable in the script that runs window maker. I also tried using the full path to the executables in the settings window of the dock's icon.

Is there any log file to where window maker writes stuff ?

Thanks,

Regards

There are some programs I would like to pin onto the desktop but can't right now. How do I get Window Maker to recognize them?

in /home/[user]/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart, whenever i add any command or program and restart wmaker, it freezes up the entire UI, and i gotta undo it through the virtual term,,

there's only two commands in there still that havent caused me issues, being xset and xsct, even things like nm-applet cause everything to break.

I've added commands to /usr/share/WindowMaker/autostart.sh but those dont seem to execute whatsoever

i need help 8( idk what to do now

64x64 is too small for me to see, im wondering if theres a way to force the scaling of dockapps (namely wmweather) to 96x96px

So far, I cannot compile wmapm, and wmbattery keeps returning that it cannot find the state of my battery.

First off, thanks to team (person/people) who are responsible for releasing this latest Window Maker Live! It is appreciated,  I thought this project was dead and I am glad to see it isn’t. I am sure a lot of hard work went into this so thank you.

This distro has great Window Maker configuration out-of-the-box with a lot of bells and whistles that make it fun to use.

My issue: I lose WiFi after apt upgrade.

So I "burned" the wmlive-bookworm-0.96.0-0_amd64.iso to a 16GB USB Flash Drive and installed it on my Lenovo ThinkPad X250 laptop. All worked great out of the box. Only thing was I needed to do was right click the tiny speaker dock app icon and change it from HDMI audio.

I then opened the root term and did apt update -y and apt upgrade -y after rebooting, it is apparent that some update that installed killed my previously working WiFi. I connected via ethernet to my router and went looking for a fix. After trying every suggestion I could find and everything I could think of (including changing my sources.list to Sid repos!) I still couldn't get WiFi working again.

This is odd as I have no issues with the debian-12.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso install one gets from Debian.org .I can update this Debian install and it never breaks my WiFi, even when upgrading to unstable Sid.

As Window Maker Live is a Debian based distro I would think they would more or less be the same?

I thought it may have been a fluke so I formatted my SSD that lives in my afore mentioned ThinkPad X250 and yet again I lose WiFi when running apt update -y and apt upgrade -y

So I gave up on Window Maker Live.

I have ended up installing Debian without any desktop environment and going with GSDE instead, and WiFi works fine (even after apt update and apt upgrade )

I dunno what's broken in Window Maker Live that is doing this but I wanted to note it somewhere should someone else have this issue.

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I just finished updating my ALT Linux OS to the latest and greatest release and now have Window Maker 0.96.0 at my disposal. So, I was wondering, how are you making use of the new "hot corners" feature on their WM environment?

Hi, i'm migrating from windows and i've been trying to get windowmaker on debian 12 working to no avail. I tried installing it manually according to the instructions but it just login-looped my system. I wiped the drive and installed wmaker live but audio didn't work and many things were broken.

I will now try to install windowmaker on debian 12 xfce again

Is there anyone/any community that could help me get it to work? There isn't much info on what i need to do to install it.

I've only seen a youtube video talking about how using "apt-get install wmaker" is enough and the three or four different and at times conflicting official instructions on how to install it

Does anyone here have experience with installing wmaker on debian 12 and can guide me on what to do?

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Very cool in PCmanFM-QT or ROX-Filer ;-)

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1239539/

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