What Will Be Covered
This short walk through will cover
- Installing Window Maker
- Installing Window Maker Sound Server
- Installing Window Maker Sound Preferences Utility
- Any other required applications
We will be discussing the use of the application sources, not packages, on Linux.
For other Unix distributions, please consult the INSTALL file.
Getting and Installing Window Maker and Window Maker Utilities
What you need
If you already have Window Maker installed as a package from your distribution, it
is recommended that you uninstall this package and any related packages before continuing.
If you elect to do this, make sure you make a backup of ~/GNUstep if this directory exists
in your home directory (just incase the package manager deletes this information).
The latest Window Maker source can be obtained from ftp.windowmaker.org.
The first step is to untar the Window Maker source in your desired directory. After this,
change to that directory. You may want to read the INSTALL, NEWS, and README files.
Window Maker requires:
- LibPropList (ftp.windowmaker.rg/pub/libs or ftp.gnome.org/pub/libPropList)
- gcc (or other ANSI C compiler)
- X11R6
- X header files (x development packages)
- lex (or flex)
- yacc (or bison)
Although not required, if you have older version of the following programs you will
want to temporarily disable them (move them to another location)
- autoconf 2.13
- automake 1.4
- libtool 1.3
Optional software:
- LibXPM 4.7+ (support for xpm files)
- Libpng 0.96+ (support for png images)
- Libjpeg 6.0.1+ (support for jpeg images)
- Libtiff 3.4+ (support for tiff images)
- Libgif 2.2 or libungif (support for gif images)
- GNU xgettext (translated messages)