Re: [Sawfish] can sawfish auto-resize windows, when I am dragging them with a mouse?

["Robert 'Bobby' Zenz" <Robert.Zenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here are the steps I use to compile it under Ubuntu 12.04:

librep
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export CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/bash"
autoreconf -f
../configure
make
sudo make install

# This might be totally optional, but stumbled upon it.
sudo ln /usr/lib/librep.so.9 /usr/lib/librep.so.16


rep-gtk
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autoreconf -f
../configure
make
sudo make install


sawfish
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autoreconf -f
../configure
make
sudo make install


Execute in this order and it should work. If there are missing dependencies, 
just install them via apt-get.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:17:33AM +0800, Mogei Wang wrote:
> Thank you, Chris, thank you for minding me. I am glad to see that, the
> great sawfish wm is under very active development. I have used 5
> independent wms: afterstep (long time ago), xmonad, openbox, i3-wm and
> sawfish (very recently). Undoubtedly, sawfish is the best one.
> 
> However, such a great window manager as sawfish occupies only a little
> market [see, e.g., 1]. I feel that, it 's kind of waste of resources.
> I hope you can agree that, it would be a good thing to do some
> marketing to attract more users.
> 
> I took some time to install the last version this afternoon, but
> failed. I have tried some different ways.
> (1) Google finds no ppa for my Lubuntu 12.04. The latest ppa I have
> found is [2], which is for ubuntu 10.10.
> (2) The 3rd party precompiled packages was not for my 32bit system [3].
> (3) Convert fedora rpm to deb, and then install it. However, the
> librep in my system seems too old, as a result, sawfish cannot launch.
> (4) Compiling from git, but the dependence is rather complex. I am not
> an experienced user there and cannot make librep installed, although I
> have managed to resolve the dependence.
> (5) Compiling from source also failed. It seems this was the best way,
> which may success if I have tried it before making the dependence
> improper.
> Last, I chose to give up, and roll back to the old version.
> 
> Previously, I have noticed the i3wm maintains its updates in an
> elegant way [4]. It was said that, rest assured that sur5r will update
> i3wm automatically. I am not familiar with the packaging techniques.
> Still, I hope sawfish can learn from it. In my opinion, such
> maintenance technique is one of the most important aspects of the
> marketing.
> 
> [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=xmonad%2C+i3-wm%2C+afterstep%2C+sawfish%2C+openbox&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
> 
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~mmaruska/+archive/sawfish
> 
> [3]deb http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main
> deb-src http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main
> 
> [4] http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html
> 
> With best regards,
> M.W.

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