Window Maker Live Files

This is to announce the immediate availability of Window Maker Live
release wmlive-debian 2012-03-11 for both amd64 and i386.

This release is dedicated to three persons, which are of very special
relevance for the Window Maker Live CD effort in general:

* To Carlos R. Mafra for having revived the Window Maker development
  by providing and managing the http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git
  repository for inclusion of any fixes and enhancement code patches
  by interested contributors.

* To Rodolfo 'kix' Garcia for doing an incredible job enhancing the
  upstream Window Maker code base, while at the same time maintaining
  the official Window Maker Debian packages, on which the Window Maker
  Live effort actually relies on.

* To Jean Philippe Guillemin, original author of the GTK2-Step theme,
  for making it possible to almost seamlessly integrate GTK2 based
  applications with Window Maker, by properly matching the WINGs
  widget set looks.

Thanks a lot to everybody involved making Window Maker become a much
more viable desktop and window management option than it ever was!

New ISO images can be downloaded from the usual download area at
Sourceforge:

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files

Here is a short list of the most notable changes for this release:

# Desktop related changes:

* The Window Maker root menu has been substantially enhanced, and now
  offers a preferences backup and restore facility, a much more
  versatile and customizable AutoStart management feature, a simple
  means for manipulating the Debian menu file entries and, last not
  least, a much better Applications menu layout.

* The Debian related applications menu layout and entries have been
  moved to be under full user control. More than a hundred of
  customized menu files were added to the user controlled ~/.menu
  directory while still maintaining compatibility with the system
  'update-menus' script.

* The GTK2-Step theme integration has been much enhanced, making it
  work independently of the gnome-settings-daemon.

* The debian-installer now uses a different GTK2 theme definition, in
  order to look at least a bit more STEPish.

* Among a few other minor packages, the 'backintime-gnome' backup
  program was added to the default system installation. Support
  utilities for xdg based menus were removed as they were not used by
  any of the installed applications.

# Under the hood:

* The system is now mainly based on wheezy/testing with the few Gnome
  related components being taken from squeeze/stable, and no further
  packages from the sid/unstable branch, in order to reduce the latent
  possibility of unexpected breakage.

* When performing an installation parallel to another operating system
  on disk, the grub boot menu will now be automagically updated with
  the suitable entries for dual booting once the freshly installed
  Debian Linux system has been booted for the first time.

* The wmlive-fix-grub-install script was enhanced with an automagic
  fix for the creation of the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot
  configuration file, which is required for the associated initrd
  based boot mechanism. Before, any installation to an encrypted LVM
  unexpectedly failed by leaving the fully installed machine in an
  unbootable state, because the missing configuration file is not
  automatically created during the installation stages of the
  debian-installer.

* Many more small fixes and enhancements, which are far too numerous
  and minuscule to be mentioned separately.

# Known issues:

* Even if during the installation process the grub install stage
  doesn't fail anymore, the 'wmlive-fix-grub-install' script should
  still be executed before actually confirming to finish the
  installation. The script also fixes a LUKS related issue and an
  incomplete file copying of the installer, which would otherwise
  break both cron/at and the mail spool of the resulting system
  installation.

* If the 'debian-installer' does not start while reporting 'Invalid
  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxhost: unable to open display ":0"', or
  similar, then there is no other known remedy, so far, than rebooting
  from the CD and try again. Thanks to Mark Van Kingsley for making me
  aware.

* If no network connection was configured already during the generic
  installation stages, no automatic update of the apt cache will be
  performed during the first reboot, and Synaptic will refuse to start
  up, displaying an error message regarding an invalid value for
  "APT::Default-Release". In this case, just update the apt cache
  manually by running either 'sudo apt-get update' or also 'sudo
  wmlive-apt-refresh', in order to properly sync the outdated local
  apt repository information of the system, and Synaptic will work as
  expected afterwards.

For more detailed changes information, please consult the accompanying
ChangeLog file, which is also available separately in the Sourceforge
download area for Window Maker Live.

Enjoy installing and using Window Maker Live!

Best regards,

Paul Seelig

-- 
Paul Seelig <wmlive@users.sf.net>
http://wmlive.sourceforge.net