More FC4 installation
Continuing yesterday’s entry on FC4 installation.
- Sawfish is just not in Fedora, not even in Extras. I suspect this reflects the lack of anyone caring enough to maintain the package. I should probably volunteer for this. I went ahead and build new librep packages using the newest version from SourceForge (0.17). I’ll put a working set of Sawfish RPMS and their deps (rep) up at [sorry, these RPMs were removed as they don’t actually work; try reading forward a few posts]. (Oh, I ended up having to rebuild rep-gtk too, so that’s up there.)
- For some reason, autoconf wouldn’t install because of GPG key
problems. I had to manually
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY. This is only unusual because, up until now, this new version of yum has been nice enough to install all my keys for me. gnome-wmwill, apparently, let you change your window manager in gnome, kind of. Put something likeexport WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfishin~/.bashrc.- With
gconf-editorI switched off/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop. - It is suspected (by me) that the color I like for my background is about #3B748C. I should probably just look at my Sawfish theme and see what color(s) it uses (I suspect it’s a gradient).
Have to go take a Geology exam online now. My mouse wheel up isn’t working. I suspect I need to bring over the same fix I used in FC2… once I remember everything that was involved in it. Will update in next entry.
Cool, thanks for the sawfish RPMs. Missed that too on FC4
Rgds,
Jin
Comment by Jin — Thursday, 21 July 2005 @ 12:46:13
Ok, after we found out that rebuilding source RPMs did not do the trick I still kept to look for some way to get Sawfish running on FC4 (I was just too fed up with metacity… and I wanted the usual look and feel of my desktop back)
So the idea was kind of lame, but worked in the end - since recompiling all packages caused assertions in sawfish I tried taking the binaries from FC2. I had to rebuild librep-0.16.1-5.1.src.rpm because of a changed libreadline version, but I could take the binary rep-gtk-0.17-7.i386.rpm and sawfish-1.3-3.i386.rpm from the Fedora Core 2 distribution. At first I had a problem that gnome-window-properties did not run. A manual hack is required - you have to fix one directory. rep-gtk installs some stuff to /usr/libexec/rep/i386-redhat-linux-gnu but this is now expected to be in /usr/libexec/rep/i386-redhat-linux The trick was to add two links to the /usr/libexec/rep/i386-redhat-linux directory:
gui -> /usr/libexec/rep/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gui
sawfish -> /usr/libexec/rep/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/sawfish
After that everything worked perfectly… sawfish rocks!
Enjoy,
Jin
Comment by Jin — Friday, 29 July 2005 @ 11:36:01
sounds like you are pretty savvy with sawfish. I put fedora core 2 on laptop just to get sawfish…had used it in rh7.x…it is cool. I keep running into problems…did you outline what you did? or would you consider putting steps to install online for those of us ‘wanna-be-geeks’ to be able to run sawfish??? I installed the sawfish package but kept getting messages that it needed some other file…didn’t know where to get the other files from….web or what.
I was unable to type my name in the name field…therese lowery…email…tlowery8@nc.rr.com.
please let me know even if you just don’t have the time for that.
thanks,
therese
Comment by Anonymous — Friday, 26 August 2005 @ 18:13:10