tomocafe/i3wm-el6

Build i3wm for el6 platform in user space (no root required)

i3wm-el6's Issues

Add dmenu

v4.1.1 is available on EPEL.

Fetch ruby, cmake (etc.) if missing to proceed with build

They're not needed at runtime, so they can be cleaned up in the build directory afterward.

Default config file needs correction

The default i3 config file uses pango font rendering, but this build disables pango, so there will be an error issued on startup and the font will fall back to fixed. The script should fix the default config file to use Xft rendering.

Use patch files instead of inline sed

Add export to $BLDDIR.env dump file (debug mode)

For debugging I dump the environment variables we set for build purpose to $BLDDIR.env so I can source them and run the failed command in the terminal. The variables should be exported so they are passed to child processes.

Pick a unique name for EPEL repo in repoquery args to avoid conflict

Original naming of "epel" conflicts on many systems, try something more unique for the temporary repoid, like "epel-i3wm-el6"

Some older versions of autoreconf don't honor ACLOCAL_PATH

Try to detect this and switch to using the ACLOCAL variable, e.g.

export ACLOCAL="aclocal${ACLOCAL_PATH:+ -I}${ACLOCAL_PATH//:/ -I}"

Man pages aren't built

Man pages aren't currently being built/installed for i3/i3status. They should be included in the final output so that the user can add them to their MANPATH, ensuring all the junk required to build the man pages are filtered out of the final output (e.g. asciidoc stuff). At last attempt, there were some issues with i3status man page generation due to a2x looking for manpage.xsl in the wrong directory.

Optionally compile dunst, i3lock

Fix i3 CFLAGS for system-installed headers

Current approach assumes the -devel headers will be under the locally extracted $bldpath but if these headers are actually installed in the system, it won't find it.

Suggest to change it to include both cases, system and local:

LIBSN_CFLAGS+=-I{$bldpath,}/usr/include/startup-notification-1.0 LIBEV_CFLAGS+=-I{$bldpath,}/usr/include/libev

Add ruby and cmake as required helper commands

The yajl build requires it,

Skip cloning i3status if disabled