Gnome 2.14

doubleoseven · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

is there already an howto outthere how to update to 2.14? because my portage just tells me that there are packages but that theyre masked and i cant see them in my /etc/portage/packages/package.mask when i do emerge -uDp world it lokes like this :

psyeye · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 409 Location: Germany

Better try

doubleoseven · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:

thanks i'm sorry i dont know where my brain was

now it worked, hmm does anyone know how to turn on the composite manager in metacity? i mean is there a way whitout xgl? and if not does anyone know when they plan to put xgl into the portage tree?
_________________
Move Your Body, Now STOP! Move Your Mind.

Rikz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 103

doubleoseven · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

this is the way to turn it on when you have xgl installed, when you dont you dont have this option in the menu.
_________________
Move Your Body, Now STOP! Move Your Mind.

kernja · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 65

Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

I've read on the metacity mailing list that a cvs version of xorg is required for composition to work ( so it probably won't work with currently released xorg servers ).

cpu · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject:

Anybody knows if there is some deadline for gnome-2.14 in ~x86 ? Because I had to wait for ages for 2.12 courple months ago... I don't need exact date but a possible time - 1 week 1 month ?

phaseburn · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject:

cpu · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Is the reason for the mask because not all of gnome 2.14 is in portage?

chunderbunny · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:38 am Post subject:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

Well it does work for the most part (gentoo developers should add the not included evdev patch to control-center). I have been running it since beta1 via the gnome-experimental overlay from the gentoo developers.

phaseburn · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

Yea, I'll be spending this weekend compiling it and testing it. package.mask should hopefully be removed by Sunday and it'll hit ~arch - if not, well, I'll unmask it myself and give it a spin.

Looking forward to it, that's for sure.
_________________
-PhaseBurn

VValdo · Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 395

thasheep · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

If you're dying to see composite support in metacity, you'll need to copy the metacity ebuild to your overlay and then modify it.
Here's a simple diff that should do the trick (you may as well apply it manually and work out what it does). My experience with composite in metacity has been crap - it doesn't really work but you could have more luck. If you don't know how to modify ebuilds then I don't advise doing this. You'll need to change a gconf key (gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true). Also you need composite support in x11. I warn you that this could be really unsatisfactory and I haven't tried this recently. Turning the gconf key off should restore normal metacity behaviour.
13c13,14
< IUSE="xinerama"
---
> IUSE="xinerama
> xcomposite"
18c19,23
< RDEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-2.6
---
> RDEPEND="xcomposite? ( || ( (
> x11-libs/libXcomposite
> x11-libs/libXdamage)
> <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 ))
> >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.6
36c41,42
< G2CONF="$(use_enable xinerama) --disable-compositor"
---
> G2CONF="$(use_enable xinerama)
> $(use_enable compositor)"

crudh · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

thasheep · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject:

ja
The ebuild in portage disables it by default. Have a look at /usr/portage/x11-wm/metacity/metacity-2.14.0.ebuild and see the line G2CONF="$(use_enable xinerama) --disable-compositor" - that means metacity is compiled without composite suppport. My patch enables it if you activate the xcomposite USE flag. You'll still need to toggle the gconf key or else you won't notice anything. Gentoo disables it by default (and has since it first appeared, which was 2.8 or so) because it doesn't work on all graphics cards and is likely to crash gnome. It's a fair bit more ambitious/advanced than xcompmgr, transset and the composite extensions in kde and xfce.

Sorry, I just realised you'll need a libcm ebuild from somewhere first....I think breakmygentoo has one.

vdemeester · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

Hi !

Emerging the hal-20101010 ebuild (cvs version), i got this error

CloudBolt · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

Hypnos · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject:

tweakt · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Watch here:
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/joem

(anyone besides 'joem' comitting?)

crudh · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject:

allanonjl:

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/allanonjl

vdemeester · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject:

librsvg-2.14.2 was compiled but failed to install.
I think the ebuild should be correct.

I solved this failing with :