DWM portage not compiling after emerge

[ShinobiX9X]

Hello,

I am new to Gentoo, been using Arch for some years and wanted to try Gentoo out.

I followed the Document, and installed DWM through Portage following the tutorial.

I changed 1 option in the config.he (actually here /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-wm/dwm-6.5)
changed the mod1 to 4, but after emerge, or even updating everything, it still doenst use the super key, but the alt key.

Any idea what I do wrong? Which config can I show for getting help?

Thank you in advance

[Hu]

Welcome to the forums. Per Guidelines item #4, please show us the commands you used with sufficient detail that we can reproduce your problem. Did Portage acknowledge that it picked up your change? What exactly did you put in the override?

[grknight]

Did you enable the savedconfig USE of x11-wm/dwm to look for such a change?

[ShinobiX9X]

Hi, thnx for the fast replies.

After looking and trying a lot, this is what helped me.

I had the savedconfig use flag in .../package.use/dwm.
I removed that dwm file and instead added the savedconfig use flag in portage/make.conf

Now it worked.

I am confused when to add use flags in make.conf or in a seperate file for a package in package.use/

For DWM I am not sure when to edit the savedconfig/x11-wm/dwm-*
or when to use that seperate gentoo patch folder. And should I use git in any of the two?

thank you

[grknight]

[ShinobiX9X]