Install wmii snapshot

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.