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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Installing Window Maker as Your Window Manager</TITLE> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="A small guide on how to install the Window Maker window manager for Unix systems with X."> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Window Maker, how to, install, Linux, X, window manager"></HEAD><LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="default.css"><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#7F007F"><H2><A NAME="0">Installing Window Maker as Your Window Manager</A></H2><B><FONT SIZE="-1">Written by Joshua Go (<A HREF="mailto:jgo@local.net">jgo@local.net</A>)</FONT></B><BR><B><FONT SIZE="-1">Created July 18, 1997</FONT></B><BR><B><FONT SIZE="-1">Last updated December 20, 1998</FONT></B><BR><B><FONT SIZE="-1">Development stage: Beta</FONT></B><P>A window manager is software that runs along with the X window serverto provide titlebars, menus, and other decorations for software. As thename implies, it "manages" the windows of your softwareapplications. Window managers are often also responsible for the"feel" as well as the look of your desktop.</P><P>Window Maker is a good-looking, nice-feeling window manager (as youmight be able to guess, it's the one I prefer). Despite its simple name,it really looks and operates very well although it hasn't reached 1.0 yet.Other cool window managers are out there, like <AHREF="http://www.enlightenment.org/" TARGET="_top">Enlightenment</A>, butE is still under heavy development and may crash unexpectedly. Others like<A HREF="http://www.afterstep.org/" TARGET="_top">AfterStep</A> arestable, but might not suit the tastes of some people (like myself).</P><P>Installing Window Maker isn't very difficult and not much hassle, <I>ifyou know what to do</I>. My goal for this page is to answer the questionsone probably would have when installing and using Window Maker. TheWindow Maker homepage is at <A HREF="http://www.windowmaker.org/" TARGET="_top">http://www.windowmaker.org</A>.</P><P>If you want to know what Window Maker looks like, take a look at a pageof <A HREF="http://jgo.local.net/screenshots.shtml"TARGET="_top">screenshots</A> that I've taken of my X desktop.</P><H3><A NAME="1">Window Maker Installation</A></H3><P>The <A HREF="http://www.windowmaker.org/" TARGET="_top">official WindowMaker homepage</A> is probably where you want to look for general WindowMaker-related issues.</P><P>If you want desktop tiles you can go to <AHREF="http://jgo.local.net/tiles/" TARGET="_top">my tiles page</A>, <AHREF="http://themes.org/totd/" TARGET="_top">Themes.org's Tile of the Daypage</A>, or <A HREF="http://www.wilberworks.com/~scott/tiles/"TARGET="_top">Scott Goehring's tiles page</A>. If you don't know whattiles are, they're the square things on the side of AfterStep and WindowMaker <A HREF="http://jgo.local.net/screenshots.shtml"TARGET="_top">screens</A> where icons are.</P><H4><A NAME="2">Get the Files</A></H4><P>You should download the current file, which is 0.19.3 at the time of mylast thorough update. The main Window Maker pixmaps are now distributedwith the program, so you only need one file. Previous versions requiredyou to get a Window Maker-data package as well as Window Maker itself. However, I would still recommend downloading the Window Maker-data packagebecause I think there are some nice icons that aren't included with themain package. Here are some sites you can get the files:</P><UL><LI><A HREF="http://jgo.local.net/cool_downloads/wm/" TARGET="_top">http://jgo.local.net/cool_downloads/wm</A> - An HTTP mirror of Window Maker on my site.</LI><LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/" TARGET="_top">ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/wmaker</A> - Has everything you need. Just browse a little.</LI><LI><A HREF="http://windowmaker.muscat.co.uk/wm" TARGET="_top">http://windowmaker.muscat.co.uk/wm</A></LI><LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/mirror/linux/windowmaker" TARGET="_top">ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/mirror/linux/windowmaker</A></LI></UL><P>You can download those anywhere you want; I'll just use<TT>/usr/local/src</TT> as an example. That means<TT>WindowMaker-0.19.3.tar.gz</TT> should be in<TT>/usr/local/src</TT>.</P><H4><A NAME="3">Window Maker</A></H4><P>Uncompress <TT>WindowMaker-0.19.3.tar.gz</TT> by typing in <B><TT>tar-zxvf WindowMaker-0.19.3.tar.gz</TT></B> while in <TT>/usr/local/src</TT>.That should create a directory called <TT>WindowMaker-0.19.3/</TT>. Moveto that directory by keying in <B>cd WindowMaker-0.19.3</B>.</P><P>Don't immediately run <B>./configure</B>. Untar the file called<TT>libPropList.tar.gz</TT> using <B>tar -zxvf libPropList.tar.gz</B>. Doa <B>cd libPropList</B> and then run <B>./configure ; make ; makeinstall</B>. That should compile that and install it on your system forfuture Window Maker releases, so move back to the previous directory using<B>cd ..</B>. I think libProplist has to be downloaded separatelythese days.</P><P>Now is the time to start compiling Window Maker itself. Type in<B>./configure ; make</B>, which will probably take a little time. Let itfinish. If you're not the root user already, type in <B>su</B>, and typein the password. Then do <B>make install</B> and that should do the trick;you've got the base Window Maker system installed.</P><H4><A NAME="4">Pixmaps</A></H4><P>This window manager won't really look very good if you're missing a fewXPM icons, so install them. Move on back to <TT>/usr/local/src/</TT> (orwherever you put the <TT>WindowMaker-data.tar.gz</TT>. Untar it with<B>tar -zxvf WindowMaker-data.tar.gz</B>. That will create a directory foryou called <TT>WindowMaker-data</TT>, which you will move into. All you dois move the <TT>pixmaps</TT> directory to <TT>/usr/local/share</TT>. Ifyou don't have a <TT>pixmaps</TT> directory there, you should do <B>mvpixmaps /usr/local/share</B>, and if you already have one, then you can do<B>mv pixmaps/* /usr/local/share/pixmaps</B>.</P><H4><A NAME="5">User Installation</A></H4><P>Choose a user, any user. In my case, I'd choose <B>joshuago</B> becausethat's the username I mainly use for my X sessions. I'd log in as<B>joshuago</B> and then type <B>wmaker.inst</B>. That will install allthe files and create all the directories I need to run Window Maker. Inmost cases you should just accept the defaults. The same goes if you wantto install it for other users.</P><H3><A NAME="6">Other Places of Interest</A></H3><UL><LI><A HREF="http://nether.tky.hut.fi/iconstore/" TARGET="_top">Icon Store</A></LI><LI><A HREF="http://wm.themes.org/" TARGET="_top">Window Maker Themes</A></LI></UL><HR><P>Comments, questions, suggestions, corrections? They're all welcome, sosend them to <A HREF="mailto:jgo@local.net">jgo@local.net</A>. Youcan also use the <A HREF="guestbook.html">guestbook</A> or the <AHREF="help.html">help form</A>.</P><HR><P><B><FONT SIZE="-1">Copyright © 1997-1999 <AHREF="mailto:jgo@local.net">Joshua Go (jgo@local.net)</A>. Allrights reserved. Permission to use, distribute, and copy this document ishereby granted. You may modify this document as long as credit to me isgiven.</FONT></B></P></BODY></HTML>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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