Window Maker: does it run for you these days?

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM, James Michael Fultz <croooow at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> [2009-10-14 17:22 -0500]:
>> 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]
>> [...]
>

Well, this is downright pathetic.  I discovered the same problem in
2005 and my inability to solve it was the reason I quit running Window
Maker!

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.devel/881

Humphf!

PJ
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