Re: Testing out a newer version of metacity

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:33, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Platform: SPARC Sun Solaris 2.8 and the Sun GNOME distribution.
> 
> We're investigating an issue which potentially is related to the version
> of metacity we are using - 2.4.1 .
> 
> I've built metacity 2.4.55 and would like to test out the new version,
> without having installed the binary and all the auxilary pieces over
> top the vendor's current version.
> 
> I'd prefer not to have to copy this new binary over top of /usr/bin/metacity.
> Is there some file setting or command line I could issue to run the new version
> of metacity without having to do this?

Install in a separate prefix ($HOME/local/metacity, as an example) and
run the binary from there.  You can kill your running metacity binary
and start the new one in a gnome-terminal window using:

killall metacity ; sleep 1; $HOME/local/metacity/bin/metacity
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.