Date: 26 Jul 2002 17:50:54 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x = Broken Sawfish Message-ID: <1027720255.879.124.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1027717292.3d41b8ac642ad@netmail.pipex.net> References: <1027633744.3d407250466bc@netmail.pipex.net> <1027641650.21180.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1027663058.3d40e4d2c23a1@netmail.pipex.net> <1027700137.879.23.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <1027717292.3d41b8ac642ad@netmail.pipex.net>
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On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 17:01, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > Hi Joe, > I had a check for librep on the box, it *is* librep-0.16.1_1 that I have. > > With this in mind: > > 1] Should I still think about recompiling Sawfish? Yes. > > 2] You mentioned in your earlier reply that your use sysutils/portupgrade for > this purpose, how would I use portupgrade in this scenario? That is, presumably > as cvsup of my ports tree didn't flag Sawfish as requiring an upgrade, how do I > use portupgrade to re-compile Sawfish? portupgrade -f sawfish > > 3] And a bit off-topic here, I did see that XFree86-4 Server had an available > upgrade, so I ran portupgrade -R for this. Do I need to re-run XFree86 - > configure for XFree86-4 again? No. Joe > > Thank you very much for the time, Joe. Hope to hear from you again soon. > > Stacey > > > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>: > > > On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 01:57, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > > > > > Hi Joe, > > > I don't actually recall doing an update for librep after installing > > the > > > system. I'll first try to locate it but, what version (if any) should > > I have > > > for librep? > > > > You should have librep-0.16.1_1. > > > > > > > > Also, in terms of recompiling librep, it the following procedure safe > > to > > > perform:- > > > <after updating if requried> > > > cd /us/ports/<whichever_dir>/librep > > > make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean > > > > I use sysutils/portupgrade to do such things, but your method should > > work as well. > > > > > > > > I take it if I find that I don't have librep (by chance), then I'll > > have to > > > install it and reinstall Sawfish as well? > > > > Yes, you will have to update both. > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > Thanks for taking the time. > > > > > > Stacey > > > > > > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 17:49, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > First of all I'd like to thank the list members that have > > taken > > > > the time > > > > > to assist me in getting to the stage where I have a stable system > > now. > > > > > > > > > > I'm having problems getting gnome / Sawfish to play together > > though. I > > > > > > > > > gnomecontrolcenter, I have selected Sawfish as the current window > > > > manager, but > > > > > when I click the Sawfish configuration tool, I get a beep, and the > > > > > > > error: "Sawfish isn't running." > > > > > > > > > > Could someone let me know if I've missed something out, or what I > > > > might check > > > > > in order to get Sawfish set up as the default window manager for > > my > > > > gnome- > > > > > 1.4_latest, please? > > > > > > > > Did you update librep _after_ compiling sawfish? If so, recompile > > > > sawfish, and your problem should be fixed. If not, please send me > > > > either your ~/.gnomerc-errors (if running gdm) or the output from > > the > > > > console when trying to start sawfish (if you don't see any errors, > > bring > > > > up an xterm, and run sawfish manually). Thanks. > > > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks again.., > > > > > > > > > > Stacey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > > > > > > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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