Window Maker: does it run for you these days?

Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 22:22:24 UTC 2009 

I've grown frustrated with compiz crashes, so I'm back in the market
for a window manager. Metacity is so borint.

On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on a amd64 system, I installed the wmaker
package.  I have used WM before on i386 systems without trouble, but
64 bits seems to be a big trouble.  I'd ask the WM community, but it
seems to have gone the way of unsliced bread and horse drawn carriages
(http://www.windowmaker.info exists, but mail lists not current).

When I try to run wmaker (after killing other window managers), I get
a big old horrible crash, the sort of which I've not seen before.
$ wmaker
*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f7ba559f2c7]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7f7ba559d170]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7f7ba559c7ab]
/lib/libc.so.6(__snprintf_chk+0x7b)[0x7f7ba559c67b]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x432865]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x413869]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x4158fa]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x44172a]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x4461d4]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x42c9b8]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7f7ba54be5a6]
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker[0x408199]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-004a0000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 215731
  /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker
0069f000-006a0000 r--p 0009f000 08:11 215731
  /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker
006a0000-006a5000 rw-p 000a0000 08:11 215731
  /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker
006a5000-006a7000 rw-p 006a5000 00:00 0
00afa000-00b95000 rw-p 00afa000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
7f7ba249f000-7f7ba24b5000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1081461
  /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7f7ba24b5000-7f7ba26b5000 ---p 00016000 08:11 1081461
  /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7f7ba26b5000-7f7ba26b6000 r--p 00016000 08:11 1081461
  /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7f7ba26b6000-7f7ba26b7000 rw-p 00017000 08:11 1081461
  /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7f7ba26dd000-7f7ba26fc000 r--p 00000000 08:11 1556594
  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf
7f7ba26fc000-7f7ba271b000 r--p 00000000 08:11 1556565
  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS.ttf
7f7ba271b000-7f7ba271f000 r--s 00000000 08:11 418886
  /var/cache/fontconfig/5e10083637a12ecd1bff191eb66bfa2f-x86-64.cache-2
7f7ba271f000-7f7ba2728000 r--s 00000000 08:11 418246
  /var/cache/fontconfig/945677eb7aeaf62f1d50efc3fb3ec7d8-x86-64.cache-2
7f7ba2728000-7f7ba2729000 r--s 00000000 08:11 418882
  /var/cache/fontconfig/0fafd173547752dce4dee1a69e0b3c95-x86-64.cache-2
7f7ba2729000-7f7ba272c000 r--s 00000000 08:11 418881
  /var/cache/fontconfig/e383d7ea5fbe662a33d9b44caf393297-x86-64.cache-2
7f7ba272c000-7f7ba2730000 r--s 00000000 08:11 418879
  /var/cache/fontconfig/a46337af8a0b4c9b317ad981ec3bdf87-x86-64.cache-2
7f7ba2730000-7f7ba2735000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 17779
  /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
7f7ba2735000-7f7ba2934000 ---p 00005000 08:11 17779
  /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
7f7ba2934000-7f7ba2935000 rw-p 00004000 08:11 17779
  /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
7f7ba2935000-7f7ba293e000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 17769
  /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
7f7ba293e000-7f7ba2b3e000 ---p 00009000 08:11 17769
  /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
7f7ba2b3e000-7f7ba2b3f000 rw-p 00009000 08:11 17769
  /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2
7f7ba2b3f000-7f7ba2b56000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1081768
  /lib/libpthread-2.9.so
7f7ba2b56000-7f7ba2d55000 ---p 00017000 08:11 1081768
  /lib/libpthread-2.9.so
7f7ba2d55000-7f7ba2d56000 r--p 00016000 08:11 1081768
  /lib/libpthread-2.9.so
7f7ba2d56000-7f7ba2d57000 rw-p 00017000 08:11 1081768
  /lib/libpthread-2.9.so
7f7ba2d57000-7f7ba2d5b000 rw-p 7f7ba2d57000 00:00 0
7f7ba2d5b000-7f7ba2d60000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1859738
  /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
7f7ba2d60000-7f7ba2f5f000 ---p 00005000 08:11 1859738
  /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
7f7ba2f5f000-7f7ba2f60000 rw-p 00004000 08:11 1859738
  /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
7f7ba2f60000-7f7ba2f87000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1859723
  /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
7f7ba2f87000-7f7ba3187000 ---p 00027000 08:11 1859723
  /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
7f7ba3187000-7f7ba3189000 r--p 00027000 08:11 1859723
  /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
7f7ba3189000-7f7ba318a000 rw-p 00029000 08:11 1859723
  /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
7f7ba318a000-7f7ba31a5000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 16578
  /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0
7f7ba31a5000-7f7ba33a4000 ---p 0001b000 08:11 16578
  /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0
7f7ba33a4000-7f7ba33a5000 r--p 0001a000 08:11 16578
  /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0
7f7ba33a5000-7f7ba33a6000 rw-p 0001b000 08:11 16578
  /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1.1.0
7f7ba33a6000-7f7ba33a8000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 16437
  /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
7f7ba33a8000-7f7ba35a7000 ---p 00002000 08:11 16437
  /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
7f7ba35a7000-7f7ba35a8000 r--p 00001000 08:11 16437
  /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
7f7ba35a8000-7f7ba35a9000 rw-p 00002000 08:11 16437
  /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
7f7ba35a9000-7f7ba35b2000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 17617
  /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
7f7ba35b2000-7f7ba37b1000 ---p 00009000 08:11 17617
  /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
7f7ba37b1000-7f7ba37b2000 r--p 00008000 08:11 17617
  /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
7f7ba37b2000-7f7ba37b3000 rw-p 00009000 08:11 17617
  /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
7f7ba37b3000-7f7ba3833000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 16605
  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.20
7f7ba3833000-7f7ba3a33000 ---p 00080000 08:11 16605
  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.20
7f7ba3a33000-7f7ba3a38000 r--p 00080000 08:11 16605
  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.20
7f7ba3a38000-7f7ba3a39000 rw-p 00085000 08:11 16605
  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.20
7f7ba3a39000-7f7ba3a69000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1859657
  /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
7f7ba3a69000-7f7ba3c69000 ---p 00030000 08:11 1859657
  /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
7f7ba3c69000-7f7ba3c6a000 r--p 00030000 08:11 1859657
  /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
7f7ba3c6a000-7f7ba3c6b000 rw-p 00031000 08:11 1859657
  /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
7f7ba3c6b000-7f7ba3c6d000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1081746
  /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7f7ba3c6d000-7f7ba3e6d000 ---p 00002000 08:11 1081746
  /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7f7ba3e6d000-7f7ba3e6e000 r--p 00002000 08:11 1081746
  /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7f7ba3e6e000-7f7ba3e6f000 rw-p 00003000 08:11 1081746
  /lib/libdl-2.9.so
7f7ba3e6f000-7f7ba3f71000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 16504
  /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
7f7ba3f71000-7f7ba4171000 ---p 00102000 08:11 16504
  /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
7f7ba4171000-7f7ba4172000 r--p 00102000 08:11 16504
  /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
7f7ba4172000-7f7ba4176000 rw-p 00103000 08:11 16504
  /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
7f7ba4176000-7f7ba4187000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 16516
  /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
7f7ba4187000-7f7ba4386000 ---p 00011000 08:11 16516
  /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
7f7ba4386000-7f7ba4387000 r--p 00010000 08:11 16516
  /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
7f7ba4387000-7f7ba4388000 rw-p 00011000 08:11 16516
  /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
7f7ba4388000-7f7ba438a000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 17573
  /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
7f7ba438a000-7f7ba4589000 ---p 00002000 08:11 17573
  /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
7f7ba4589000-7f7ba458a000 rw-p 00001000 08:11 17573
  /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
7f7ba458a000-7f7ba459e000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 17619
  /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.13
7f7ba459e000-7f7ba479d000 ---p 00014000 08:11 17619
  /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.13
7f7ba479d000-7f7ba479e000 r--p 00013000 08:11 17619
  /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.13
7f7ba479e000-7f7ba479f000 rw-p 00014000 08:11 17619
  /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.13
7f7ba479f000-7f7ba4823000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1081748
  /lib/libm-2.9.so
7f7ba4823000-7f7ba4a22000 ---p 00084000 08:11 1081748
  /lib/libm-2.9.so
7f7ba4a22000-7f7ba4a23000 r--p 00083000 08:11 1081748
  /lib/libm-2.9.so
7f7ba4a23000-7f7ba4a24000 rw-p 00084000 08:11 1081748
  /lib/libm-2.9.so
7f7ba4a24000-7f7ba4a2c000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 18414
  /usr/lib/libgif.so.4.1.6
7f7ba4a2c000-7f7ba4c2b000 ---p 00008000 08:11 18414
  /usr/lib/libgif.so.4.1.6
7f7ba4c2b000-7f7ba4c2c000 r--p 00007000 08:11 18414
  /usr/lib/libgif.so.4.1.6
7f7ba4c2c000-7f7ba4c2d000 rw-p 00008000 08:11 18414
  /usr//usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker: trying to start alternate
window manager...
/usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker error: could not exec blackbox: No
such file or directory


I got the source code from the WindowMaker site, but it wont build on
64 bit system without patching, at least.


-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas

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