Re: run lock-shield with jhbuild

[Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com>]

2012/10/25 Carlos Soriano Sánchez <carlos soriano89 gmail com>:
> Thank you for the quick responses.
> I'm using fedora 17. If it is not new enough, do I have to use fedora 18 to
> debug the new screen lock? How did you develop screen-lock in the beginning
> then(when fedora 18 beta still not available)?

The first iteration was in a VM, with fedora 18 + a custom rpm for
gdm. Then I switched to installing that rpm on my system, until I
moved to F18 at the beginning August (around Alpha TC2 IIRC).

> I need it to patch correctly this bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686472

You should update to F18. It's pretty stable these days.

Giovanni

>
> 2012/10/25 Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com>
>>
>> 2012/10/25 Carlos Soriano Sánchez <carlos soriano89 gmail com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > How can I run lock-shield in jhbuild?
>> >
>> > I used to do "jhbuild gnome-shell --replace" to run 3.6 environment.
>> > Then I
>> > expect that the lock button from user panel display the new lock dialog;
>> > instead of that, the old one is displayed. And far as I know,
>> > lock-shield is
>> > a part of gnome-shell (gnome-shell/js/ui/screenShield), so I can't run
>> > it
>> > separately. So, how can I run it?
>> >
>> > my jhbuild configuration is
>> > moduleset = 'gnome-apps-3.6'
>> > modules = ['meta-gnome-core-shell']
>>
>> Assuming you're not in a recent enough distro, you simply can't: the
>> new lock screen requires GDM 3.6 on the system bus, and does runtime
>> detection for it, falling back to gnome-screensaver if not available.
>> You could disable that detection, but it would simply crash trying to
>> show the unlock dialog.
>>
>> If you want to use GNOME 3.6 with all the new features, I'm afraid you
>> need to update your distribution.
>>
>> Giovanni
>
>
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