[waimea] Status?

[Justin Spadea]

I tried out 0.5.0-cvs and it looks like it will be pretty sweet once 
stable - was a little too buggy for daily use.

I use 0.4.0 with a couple patches I wrote a long time ago (have been for 
the past couple years). The first allows for a rootCommand: option in 
the resource file (so you only need to update startup-scripts in one 
location, as opposed to every theme file). The second is my favorite 
feature hands-down: it adds a MoveBy action. With this you can move 
windows around with your keyboard :-).

There are also other patches that people requested, but I do not use 
them myself. You can find it all, including an action file that 
demonstrates the MoveBy action, at http://j-z-s.com/waimea/. Note that 
the cvs versions of the patches were for the older waimea cvs and will 
not work with the current one (much has been rewritten). I believe all 
these patches were applied to kahakai - I was originally a developer for 
the fork, but disagreed with what the other guys wanted to do (I wanted 
to improve/add features, they wanted to completely rewrite it and took 
on too much at once, thus it died young).

I don't recall the exact command to apply the patches, but `man patch' 
should solve the problem. Also, some patches might interfere with others 
(you can manually apply them if so).

Lastly, just wanted to mention that Aegis is a fork of AEWM++, not of 
waimea.

- Justin

On 12/20/04 16:14, Alexander Isacson wrote:

>So I take it no one really uses waimea CVS (0.5) as their default wm.
>
>I really like the concept of an vector based wm and hardware
>acceleration sounds great!
>
>I'll try and it and find out for my self =)
>
>/Alexander Isacson
>
>On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:36 -0500, Jacob wrote:
>  
>
>>I used to use kahakai.  It was great but the xinerama was no good.
>>Waimea has basically been able to do what I was doing in kahakai, just
>>not quite as customizable.  There is another fork out there now, aegis.
>>It doesnt look like its gotten very far but it is from a few of the
>>developers from kahakai I believe.
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 20:42 +0100, Marian Cerny wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>kahakai is not developed any more as far as I know. And kahakai changed
>>>waimea a lot. AFAIK they have broken xinerama support. And I would like
>>>to buy LCD one day and use xinerama on my laptop.
>>>
>>>I also don't like the changes in waimea 0.5.
>>>
>>>I don't want to add extra new features into my waimea-fork, only some
>>>bugfixes and so. IIRC, waimea 0.4 is 3 years old.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Majo
>>>
>>>On 2004-12-20 19:33 +0000, André Lemos wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>kahakai is already a fork, why start another one?
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:30:27 +0100, Marian Cerny <jojo at matfyz.cz> wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>I'm also using waimea 0.4 and it is great. I plan to start some work
>>>>>based on waimea 0.4 - apply some patches back from kahakai and some
>>>>>other I found on Internet. I suppose I will start my work on it sometime
>>>>>in february-march. I plan to start a project on SourceForge, probably
>>>>>called waimea-fork.
>>>>>          
>>>>>