Re: Suggestions and Questions

["Sandeep Khanna" <sandeep khanna villanova edu>]

Hi,


Aschwin van der Woude wrote:

> Thanks for the attachment. Is the attached file for Gnome 1.4 or Garnome
> 0.12.2 . Since, I have Garnome installed in my home directory under
> /home/sandeepk/garnome and the original install tree in
> /home/sandeepk/tmp/garnome-0.12.2. So, I just dropped and expanded the
> attached tar ball in /home/sandeepk/tmp/garnome-0.12.2 which made it as
> /home/sandeepk/tmp/garnome-0.12.2/gnome/gnome-audio. 
> And, when I run 'make install' it looks like it is tring to do something
> in /usr/share/sounds !!! 
> If it is for Gnome 1.4 then, I already had the sound files installed in
> /usr/share/sounds but, it still never worked. And, The sound events sure
> did not work in my Garnome install too. 
>
> The package is for Gnome2. But seeing your problem I remembered it
> didn't honor the installation location as Garnome tells to it.
>
> Since I compiled as root I didn't have the permission problems. I fixed
> it by copying those files. 
> Anyway I am sorry about the mess. 
> I suppose you can unpack the tar-ball and copy the sound-files to
> <gnome2-dir>/share/sounds

Just did that. I copied
sandeepk sandeepk garnome-0.12.2/gnome/gnome-audio $ cp -Rvf 
work/gnome-audio-1.4.0/sounds/* ~/garnome/share/sounds

> I am sorry that I forgot to mention it. My laptop is Compaq 12XL125: AMD
> K6-III, 533 Mhz, 30 Gb HDD, 192 Mb RAM with 8 Mb shared Video memory. 
> Can You suggest an optimization string for it and a procedure to place
> it as I don't know much about makefiles. 
>
> you can set compiler-options in <garnome-src>/gnome/category.mk
>
> First you should send me a dump of /proc/cpuinfo. And check your gcc
> version. I upgraded to 3.1 from the Mandrake Cooker.
> Then I can try to give you a CFLAGS line, but I don't garantee it will
> work or produce stable code.
sandeepk sandeepk ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD
cpu family    : 5
model        : 13
model name    : AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor
stepping    : 4
cpu MHz        : 531.571
cache size    : 128 KB
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 1
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnowext 
3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips    : 1058.40


> Yes, I have been playing with it for some time now. Unfortunately,
> chaning the Window Manager option in it doesn't have any effect, and I
> could never find that "move windows using Opaque/Box Model...." option
> that Sawfish already had. 
>
> Off course the window-manager needs to support Gconf and those entries.
> Metacity does but don't know of any other. Perhaps sawfish does too.
>
> latest releases?? I think I did download the latest from
> http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ which was 0.12.2 . 
>
> I keep track of announcements and check the ftp-server once in a while
> for updates. I then update the garnome-makefile for the package and
> recompile it. :-)
>
> -a.
Thanks,
Sandeep

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