RE: Metacity upgrade method - am I an idgit?

[Jez Tucker <jezt rushes co uk>]

Hey havoc,

By manual placement I'm referrring to that method of X placing windows
whereby it works like this:

1) startx
2) X Starts, panel is given as a transparent 'grid'.  Click to place panel
where you want.
3) Panel is displayed.
4) Desktop is given as separate grid (in own window as such). Click to place
and display desktop.
5) etc. 

I guess it's something you'd have to try to see it.  Reminds me of the 486
era.  Perhaps it's bypassing gnome...?

I shall try your method. 

Any ideas reg. the alt modifier - could this be related to the way I'm doing
the upgrade?

Jez

-----Original Message-----
From: Havoc Pennington [mailto:hp redhat com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:22 PM
To: Jez Tucker
Cc: 'gnome-redhat-list gnome org'
Subject: Re: Metacity upgrade method - am I an idgit?



On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:57:19PM -0000, Jez Tucker wrote: 
> It's most likely me, but I'm having a few problems upgrading metacity on
RH
> 8.0.
> 
> I'm looking for a couple of pointers (or a more experienced voice) on the
> best method for doing this.

What I would do is:

 - get the metacity 2.4.34 SRPM from Rawhide
 - rpm -Uvh the srpm
 - rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/metacity.spec
 - rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/metacity/*

It may complain about dependencies (want a newer gtk or something),
but if metacity from tarball built on your system you should be able
to make the RPM build by just dropping the dependencies from the
metacity.spec file. (Remove any Requires or BuildRequires lines that
cause problems.)
 
> 1) Leave the RH 8.0 supplied metacity rpm installed
> 2) Compile metacity from source (2.4.34 at time of this writing).
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/metacity && make && make install
> 
>   I assume this places the new schemas in the /etc/gconf/ (etc)
>   folder..?

Placing the .schemas isn't really so important - they aren't used at
runtime, they are just used to init the data in
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
 
> Firstly - is this the right method?   I'm only assuming it is as when I
> remove the RPM before installing from source (to /usr/local/ as above) I
> have to manually place windows onto the X desktop.  Perhaps someone could
> explain why this happens when the RPM is removed?

Not sure what you mean by manually place - metacity doesn't have a
manual placement mode...

Havoc


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