From 9596761e8197f9802bc53c05b16253b9f737b6ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sunaku@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 00:04:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] restore support for wmii-3.6 with Kris Maglione's suggestion
 (UNTESTED!)

---
 README    |  2 +-
 config.rb | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7bdadc0..464fb79 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This is my wmii configuration, described in these articles:
 
 Dependencies:
 
-    wmii hg2444 or newer
+    wmii 3.6 or newer (preferably wmii-hg)
 
     Ruby 1.8.6 or newer
 
diff --git a/config.rb b/config.rb
index 67ff25e..9647acf 100644
--- a/config.rb
+++ b/config.rb
@@ -256,7 +256,17 @@ def load_config config_file
       'grabmod'     => CONFIG['control']['grab'],
     }
 
-    fs.ctl.write settings.map {|pair| pair.join(' ') }.join("\n")
+    begin
+      fs.ctl.write settings.map {|pair| pair.join(' ') }.join("\n")
+
+    rescue Rumai::IXP::Error => e
+      #
+      # settings that are not supported in a particular wmii version
+      # are ignored, and those that are supported are (silently)
+      # applied.  but a "bad command" error is raised nevertheless!
+      #
+      warn e.inspect, e.backtrace
+    end
 
     launch 'xsetroot', '-solid', CONFIG['display']['background']