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
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
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