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Install wmii snapshot

Date: 2008-07-29 | Modified: 2008-08-01 | Tags: linux, softwaretools, ubuntu, wmii

These are my notes for installing wmii snapshot in my home directory on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.

Download the latest snapshot (wmii+ixp-20080520) from the wmii homepage and save it to ~/incoming.

Untar the snapshot.

$ cd ~/incoming
$ tar -zxvf wmii+ixp-20080520.tgz

Install prerequisites:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-dev

$ sudo apt-get install dwm-tools

Build: (I left the defaults for everything during make config except for the path. I changed this to a temporary directory, ~/tmp/wmii.)
```
$ cd ~/incoming/wmii+ixp-20080520
$ make config
$ make 
$ make install
```
Move bin, etc, lib, and share to a new wmii directory.
```
$ mkdir ~/lib/wmii
$ mv ~/tmp/wmii/* ~/lib/wmii
```

Create links in my ~/bin directory:

$ cd ~/bin
$ ln -s ../lib/wmii/bin/wihack wihack
$ ln -s ../lib/wmii/bin/wmii9rc wmii9rc
$ ln -s ../lib/wmii/bin/wmii9menu wmii9menu
$ ln -s ../lib/wmii/bin/wmii.rc wmii.rc
$ ln -s ../lib/wmii/bin/wmii.sh wmii.sh

Create a .xinitrc script:

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
gnome-screensaver&
urxvt&

until wmii; do
    true
done

And link ~/.xsession to it:
```
$ ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession
```
Log out of the current window manager and then select X client script as the session and log in.

Wmii Python script to monitor remote machines — posted 2009-12-22
Install wmii snapshot 20090703 on Ubuntu Jaunty — posted 2009-07-13
Scripting wmii column widths with Python — posted 2009-04-12
Using wmii with Gnome — posted 2009-03-19
Install coLinux (and Ubuntu Hardy) on Win XP using Slirp to internet and TAP to host behind a corporate firewall/proxy server — posted 2008-04-14

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