[solved] Window Maker

Question

I installed Window Maker. According to the Window Maker archwiki I created a GNUstep directory in my home directory and added 'export GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT="~/GNUstep"' to .baschrc. When I run the Window Maker settings installation program (wmaker.inst) I get the following message:
Installing WindowMaker 0.95.4 for current user...
Directory specified in GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT environment variable does not exist
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
Last edited by lnx (2013-04-28 14:36:34)

Answer 1

abarbarian wrote:
To possibly help other folks I found that placing this
export GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT="/home/bloodaxe/GNUstep"
in ~/.bashrc  worked for me. Whereas the line given in the guide
export GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT="~/GNUstep"
did not.
I think it was me that put that in the wiki. I do remember something about "~" not working for something, but I'm surprised the above didn't work. I mean, it should be exactly the same...
Although I don't use Window Maker at the moment, I just did a quick test: It should work without quotation marks:
export GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=~/GNUstep
I'll go ahead and make that small change to the wiki. Feel free to make any other changes.
I did give windowmaker-git a quick try last night. It appears that, in the future, you won't need to set any variables yourself. Which is kind of odd, because I didn't have to set any variable myself back when I used Window Maker in 2001.
EDIT: Even better, this should work:
export GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT="${HOME}/GNUstep"
Last edited by drcouzelis (2013-05-03 13:22:28)