Again to repeat: Until now no one can get annoyed about anything as pekwm is under construction. Nothing was removed.
pekwm would be than a replacement for others not even starting. Here to read: https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic … 4383#p4383

So it is starting and the terminal-emulator can be replaced. That sounds good!

I wasn't aware about that regarding pekwm...

Seems my memory has been short lately.

So it is starting and the terminal-emulator can be replaced. That sounds good!

The PKGBUILD is above: pekwm is not yet included within the repositories. This was another tryout bringing more reasonable tests into as we alone cannot do all of that in all variations and combinations.

It does work, with one huge exception, the terminal option via menu, doesnt work...

The good news though?

the run option will do any command for you, thus I was able to determine, that the problem was within the command that the menu was using, $TERM

instead of, sakura, or some other terminal emulator.

I didn't see any other notable issues beyond that though.

EDIT: I checked a second time, that is definitely the problem I think people were having...

So yeah, its very simple, once pekwm is loaded, the terminal emulator option in menu from right clicking screen aka, above the option to run any command, is what I would think people on Hyperbola are getting annoyed about.

Aka, it doesn't select any terminal emulator, it picks a nonexistant one, for some reason...

Weird right?

Dunno why though...

Okay, nevertheless this was a tryout for looking onto the interest of the community. I just want to remember again: The stable version is not the variant to test. For sure there maybe problems we need to fix, but we have therefore testing-repositories. We had also near 2 years working onto 0.4. It is not good to wait just for the next stable version and then go out for approval. You all have the chances to do this right now and help together.

I tried this morning, but I think pekwm was removed from the repository before I could try...

Also, I might just go to sleep soon.

Anywho, email me, if I forget to report my findings, but I will probably remember tomorrow to test if I forget tonight.

as announced we will begin now adding with some possible candidates for window-managers to be added. The generic rule: Please make yourself comfortable to use makepkg at minimum and test the now following PKGBUILD with all components possible. When all is running good this thread is going to be closed and the candidate is either going to be added or is marked as not functional.

# Maintainer (Arch): Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>
# Contributor (Arch): Kevin Piche <kevin@archlinux.org>
# Contributor (Arch): Eddie Lozon <almostlucky@attbi.com>
# Maintainer: Tobias Dausend <throgh@hyperbola.info>

pkgname=pekwm
pkgver=0.1.18
_debver=$pkgver
_debrel=1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Tabbed X11 window manager"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL-2')
url='https://github.com/pekdon/pekwm'
depends=('libjpeg-turbo' 'libxft' 'libxinerama' 'libxpm' 'libxrandr')
makedepends=('quilt')
optdepends=('lxappearance: feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher'
            'nitrogen: background browser and setter'
            'tint2: basic, good-looking task manager')
backup=('etc/pekwm/autoproperties'
        'etc/pekwm/autoproperties_typerules'
        'etc/pekwm/config'
        'etc/pekwm/config_system'
        'etc/pekwm/keys'
        'etc/pekwm/menu'
        'etc/pekwm/mouse'
        'etc/pekwm/mouse_click'
        'etc/pekwm/mouse_sloppy'
        'etc/pekwm/mouse_system'
        'etc/pekwm/start'
        'etc/pekwm/vars')
source=("https://github.com/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/releases/download/release-${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
        "https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pekwm/pekwm_${_debver}-${_debrel}.debian.tar.xz")
sha512sums=('7fe04c04089d3375d1f64d456a7a582e88fd1f442c1c710bdef71309c7fe5aab234026ba381eb9a49b3d459b759924b577ba9597156e46e60147a9d84>
            '7f8d285b2725ee24b5fcefc1bacbb9b9738f58c19b49bafe40645e72f71f9ca1498a55185184f22906cbdfa404c626b8e7abc33406549af0b85ba8d36>

prepare() {
  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
  if [[ ${pkgver%.*} = ${_debver%.*} ]]; then
    # Debian patches
    export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
    export QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS='-p ab --no-timestamps --no-index'
    export QUILT_DIFF_ARGS='--no-timestamps'

    mv "$srcdir"/debian .

    quilt push -av
  fi
  ./autogen.sh
}

build() {
  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc
  make
}

package() {
  make -C $pkgname-$pkgver DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver/debian/$pkgname.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/xsessions/$pkgname.desktop
  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver/LICENSE -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
}

And yes: This is absolute serious meant. No tests will result in no going further with adding packages in that category. We need all together help and supporting each other is going faster for sure in the concurrent situation.