Gnome Development Ebuilds

bisho · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject: Interesting patch to battstat

The battstat gnome applet is monitoring the files each several seconds, causing on some bios a lot of CPU consuption and making the system crawl.

This applet is not usable at all in many Dell laptops, and several sony and other models.

There is a patch in:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dmoore/battstat/

that applies cleany to the latest battstat sources from gnome-current that solves this problem. The info about the battery is only cheked when a new batt is inserted, and the batt status could be checked then each 30 seconds without loosing a kick response to batt changes and AN on/off changes.

The related gnome bug is at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88553

I only needed to add to the gnome-applets-2.3.6.ebuild:
src_unpack() {
unpack ${A}
epatch ${FILESDIR}/battstat-acpi-events.diff
}

and change the paths of the files in the battstat-acpi-events.diff patch, from battstat/ to gnome-applets-2.3.6/battstat

I hope this will help people having problems with battstat and their laptops.
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maxmc · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:09 pm Post subject:

Im not sure this has anything to do with BMG ebuilds but since I use them I post here.

I get this whenever the scrollkeeper updates:

Freak_NL · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject:

mantis · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:18 am Post subject:

Gnome-terminal not working, loads GUI but no text appears. Menus still work.

Pic

Downgraded from 2.3.2 to 2.2.2 and still doesnt work.

Freak_NL · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:55 am Post subject:

Mantis: Did you update your kernel recently? This seems like a missing /dev/pts mount.

Freak_NL · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 1:37 pm Post subject:

To have Metacity change it's behaviour to clicking anywhere in a window to move it to the front, just unset the "Select windows when the mouse moves over them" checkbox in the "windows" configuration panel..

What happened here? Two options got fused into one? I happen to like "Select windows when the mouse moves over them" AND "Click anywhere to raise window", but this is not an option anymore? It is one or the other (click or sloppy)!

I'm annoyed!

On to the bugs..

Why.. Why does attempting every open or save dialog result in a segfault?

[edit] Without the fileselector patches everything is fine. Is anyone else experiencing this with gtk+-2.2.2_p1-r7?

Lin_Matt · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject:

Yup... That filesel patch still makes everything crashy as hell... I went ahead and removed it... Sorry folks... :oops:

rowi · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject:

ethzero · n00b Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 53 Location: Colorado

Hey, when is Zenity going to be added to these ebuilds?

Lovechild · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:03 am Post subject:

terafoil · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 14

apparently , my ogg files are borked for some odd reason. when i go into an ogg folder, i just get the green foot icon,not the nice ogg format icons. Also, nautilus audio preview is off. this is because my ogg files have a mimetype of "application/ogg" where it should be "application/x-ogg". i've tried changing gnome's mime-types, changing /usr/share/mime-info/ but i still don't know what to do. if i make a file with nano and make it test.ogg, booom the ogg icon and everything appears. could this be a cd-rippers fault.currently using sound-juicer-0.4.1 (waiting for new ebuilds to come out).

my oggs(the broken ones) play fine in rhythmbox, it's just nautilus, and therefore nautilus-cd-burner also doesn't work(it changes x-ogg files only)

akb · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:50 pm Post subject:

i cannot get gstreamer to compile any more... i already compiled almost my whole gnome-2.4-r30 now, but gstreamer doesnt want, whatever i do. i looked into the ebuild and unmerged/remerged every single dependency (successfully), but gstreamer breaks always at the same point:

Lin_Matt · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:23 pm Post subject:

Have you tried messing with your CFLAGS a bit? Maybe try -march=athlon instead of athlon-xp...

akb · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:12 pm Post subject:

yep, tried a few settings, but nothing changed... the error message was still the same.
i tried:
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe"

i think it must be related on some libs which changed with the new gnome version... but which? and since there isnt something like this noticed by other people (is it?) its bit weird... "why me?" *lol*

Lin_Matt · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:18 pm Post subject:

What gcc/glibc version are you using?

akb · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject:

here are my versions:

* sys-libs/glibc
Latest version available: 2.3.2_p2
Latest version installed: 2.3.2_p2

* sys-devel/gcc
Latest version available: 3.4
Latest version installed: 3.4

Lovechild · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject:

gcc 3.4 - that would do it... it's pre alpha man.. what were you thinking?

akb · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject:

uhm... hehe... didnt really notice that it was installed / upgraded. i think i shouldnt try to upgrade to a gnome devel version while partying *lol*
sry... which gcc version is the newest really usable one atm?

edit: ill try gcc-3.3.1.ebuild, is this okay?
edit2: it worked, thx man

Lin_Matt · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject:

hehehe... New glib, pango and gtk+ version came out today... All sorts of bugfixes... And the really choice file selector patch now works without crashing anything (even gedit). Here's a screenshot for the uninformed:
[img:b970199688]http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gtkenhancements/filesel-new.png[/img:b970199688]

And yes Virginia... It's in gnome-current...

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:19 pm Post subject:

Now you are just rubbing it in...

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3635&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

There I go testing a new fileselector and right when I found it stable you read my mind and include it...

How do you do it - it's scary... you are putting the whammy on me

Lin_Matt · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 4:19 am Post subject:

Sorry dude... I got all excited about a new gtk+ release and figured I'd check back on my favorite patch that never quite worked right. No thunder-stealing intended...

Lovechild · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 4:30 am Post subject:

akb · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:48 am Post subject:

how do you get this shadow patch working? i got gnome-current from a release a few days ago - as far as i know with shadow patch - but dont have any shadows. the only thing i had was kind of a small shadow (which overall was just a small shadow type border right and bottom of a menu), but not really what i can call a shadow :-(

user138 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Portland, OR

ok, now i dont think this has anything to do with the gnome ebuilds, but these are the only things that i upgrade (usually every day). So...

yesterday when trying to -u gnome, i error out with:

Freak_NL · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:36 am Post subject: