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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:45:30 -0800
From:      Jim Adams <JimAdams@VibrantLogic.com>
To:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Metacity with Expocity
Message-ID:  <3FC4682A.9050100@VibrantLogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <opry755kaz8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
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Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:05:34 -0800, Jim Adams 
> <JimAdams@VibrantLogic.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Because, it never has been patch clean if you read the messages of 
>>> patch. Looks like the diff was created against the CVS or 
>>> development version of Metacity. Or maybe older version of Metacity, 
>>> I dunno.
>>>
>>> That got me curious, I don't understand what's advantage of it. So, 
>>> I cleaned the patch and make it easier for other users. You should 
>>> be able to use this attach and put it in the x11-wm/metacity/files/ 
>>> and do the 'make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install', then restart 
>>> Metacity. I just played with it and it works, but I don't really 
>>> like it thought. Maybe, I will like it if they make it more smaller 
>>> and can stay in the background when I am doing with vim, browser or 
>>> whatever. :-)
>>>
>>> BTW: Be sure to your Metacity version is 2.6.3 if you want to use an 
>>> attach of patch-expocity.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mezz
>>>
>> I was interested in trying your patch, but can't seem to get it to 
>> work.  I must be making a silly error somewhere.  As far as I can 
>> tell the patch file looks like it should work.   Any ideas?
>>
>>  jfa# cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/
>> jfa# mv /disk1/patch-expocity files/
>
>
> What is /disk1? Windows partition or what? Or, maybe it was your email 
> client? You need to make sure it stays in ASCII (UNIX format) when you 
> download this patch and move. Maybe, you can try do this:
>
> jfa# perl -i -pne 's/\r\n/\n/g' 
> /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/files/patch-expocity
>
> Then try it again to see if it will help. If not, then I can gzip the 
> patch and send it to you in private.
>
excellent!  This did the trick.  Some pretty cool eye candy, I must 
say.  Runs pretty snappy on my athlon xp 1600+/512MB ram.

-Jim

> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> jfa# make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install
>>  >> metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in 
>> /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2.
>>  >> Attempting to fetch from 
>> http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gnome/sources/metacity/2.6/.
>>
>> Receiving metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 (1749859 bytes): 0%
>> Receiving metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 (1749859 bytes): 13%
>> Receiving metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 (1749859 bytes): 39%
>> Receiving metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 (1749859 bytes): 66%
>> Receiving metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 (1749859 bytes): 90%
>> Receiving metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2 (1749859 bytes): 100%
>> 1749859 bytes transferred in 4.1 seconds (418.54 kBps)
>> ===>  Extracting for metacity-2.6.3
>>  >> Checksum OK for gnome2/metacity-2.6.3.tar.bz2.
>> ===>  Patching for metacity-2.6.3
>> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for metacity-2.6.3
>> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to src/Makefile.am.rej
>> 2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to src/Makefile.in.rej
>> 2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to src/display.c.rej
>> 2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to src/keybindings.c.rej
>> 2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to src/main.c.rej
>> 2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to src/window.c.rej
>>  >> Patch patch-expocity failed to apply cleanly.
>>  >> Patch(es) patch-configure applied cleanly.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity.
>>
>>
>> -Jim
>
>
>




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