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Weirdly enough when trying to install wmaker on debian it seems that it does not depend on any GNUstep packages. Indeed, it seems to be using libwutil5 instead.
by snakeanus 9y ago
Weirdly enough when trying to install wmaker on debian it seems that it does not depend on any GNUstep packages. Indeed, it seems to be using libwutil5 instead.
- mondoshawan 9y agoWmaker is not actually affiliated with GNUstep, and in fact has its own Foundation-style widget set written in straight C called WINGs. WMakerPrefs uses this to do its work.
- jhbadger 9y agoWindowMaker predates GNUStep and is just a window manager that has a NextStep theme. I used it on Linux in the late 1990s.
- reubenmorais 9y agoGNUStep predates WindowMaker by a couple of years, and windowmaker.org states: Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.
- jhbadger 9y agoWindowMaker was released in 1997. GnuStep in 1998 (yes, it had been announced years earlier). While it may have been the author's intent all along to support GNUStep, the reason why it doesn't rely on any GNUStep libraries is that they didn't exist at the time.