Re: applet iid alias

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:55:11AM +0100, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:34, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > That's because not enough people are dogfooding 2.2 yet. We desperately
> > need to start stomping bugs now and the only way this is going to happen
> > is if all our happy hackers move to 2.2 as their desktop
> > </release_team_plea>
> 
> I built HEAD a couple of days ago with jhbuild on rh8. Is there a
> guide/HOWTO somewhere that describes how i can make that build my
> primary desktop? I don't want to trash my rh8 gnome2 desktop. Ideally,
> i'd like to be able to switch easily between the two.

Something like "jhbuild run gnome-session" should run your desktop.
Put that in ~/.Xclients, chmod +x ~/.Xclients, and run the "Default"
session from gdm. (Default = .Xclients)

> Some things i noticed when trying to run apps from that build were that
> it was unable to find my fonts anymore (verdana ttf) (located in both
> ~/.fonts & /usr/share/fonts).

Maybe Pango did not find and compile with fontconfig/Xft2; perhaps
fontconfig-devel was missing, or something like that.

> Can i use the same themes as my rh8 desktop (in /usr/share/themes)?

You probably have to copy them to prefix/share/themes where you
installed the jhbuild build.

Havoc