Notices

FIRST OFF - Lets start out with the normal (I am not responsible for myself let alone your device) If you do not follow this exactly it may not work. If it does not work, it could cause you to reflash. Even if you follow this exactly it might not work for you. BLAH BLAH BLAH

OK Next issue 770 USERS
I no longer have a 770, to play with, so I can not test. N800 is binary compatible so it should work. You might have more library's needed? or some of the scripts I used may be different. I suggest someone looking through my tarball in /etc and verifying the scripts are the same, if so it might just work. Again not responsible for anything.

If you have a dual boot setup on 770, and a spare card, that would be the safest way to test. That goes for N800 users also



I think you will be very pleased, even with no mouse buttons this is very useable. You can switch window managers well running, very nice!!

PRE-REQUISITE - I just did this from a fresh flash , this is what was installed.
to install this you need the following setup
becomeroot
xterm
ssh


becomeroot needs to be installed
http://eko.one.pl/maemo/dists/mistra....1-2_armel.deb

NEXT
Go to application repository
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationRepositories

Add all the 2007 repositories, refresh
install osso-xterm, start xterm
run
apt-get install ssh

NOW
You need to make sure this line is in /etc/sudoers , or this will not work

user ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

If you do not, after installing becomeroot,

Start xterm

run
sudo gainroot

cp and paste this command in next to add it
echo "user ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers


next download the tarball

From browser open;
http://penguinbait.com/WM6.tar.gz

NOTE about 7.5MB, uncompressed about 20MB (17.5)

if you save in user Documents folder run the following
cd /
gunzip /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/WM6.tar.gz
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/WM6.tar

ADDED EDIT
NEXT, from xterm or ssh run
ldconfig

now you can use your new WM

Thats IT, your done, please provide feedback. I have used this on fresh flash, bootmenu not needed, but its nice.....





WHATS WORKING AND INFO

I added these so you could switch window managers while running, or boot to either one

Hildon menu options added
Added menu option to switch Window Maker while running
Added menu option to switch to Window Maker on reboot

Window Maker menu options added
Added options in session menu to switch to hildon while running (Hildon Desktop)
Added options in session menu to switch to hildon on reboot (Reboot to Hildon)

Additional working itemes on WMaker
4 Desktops, You can setup as many as you like
Drag windows right to switch desktops
menu button switches desktops
zoom out button, is menu button (sometime sticks try switching desktops if it wont come up)
zoom in button is minimize window

WPrefs is working with images
On-screen keyboard (oskey-x)
Google (links -g google.com)
Xterm
wmagnify is working
lots of empty menus, but I did not want to remove them

Contact me via gmail if you can. I have thoughts.

Gotta run off to work, Im tired, could use a nap. When I get some free time later today, I will shoot you an email.

I see this has been downloaded 3 times, anyone get it working? Feedback?

I'd be really curious to see what this looks like on the small screen... Anyone who gets it working, could you post a screenshot??

video has been posted

It shows a rough build, its much better with my tar release


http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4552

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPZcNCHBvQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sh9VoEb93I

NOTE, you may need to run ldconfig as root after you untar to root, I will put edit above

A question. Why is ssh required? There's nothing in the instructions that needs it, apart from optionally using it on running ldconfig?

SSh is used because thats what I did, not sure if it is required? But its what was on mine, so I am telling you how I setup and made it work. If you install and do not install ssh, and it works let me know and I will update my instructions.

The obvious advantage of ssh is having a way back in, should something go wrong....



Anyone else got this going yet? Hellooooooooo

(Tunneling in from the thread next door)

Here's the thing: I really really want to try this; I want to try it so hard it hurts.

But, despite appearances (my abundant posting here e.g.) I also really really don't have the time to play much with anything these days. Give me a month...

OK.
Makes sense.
Plucking up coourage now.