switching window managers

[robc]

I managed to cpmpile pcmanfm and get it running on tcl

Were you able to get the icons to work? I was able to get it compiled along with all of the missing dependancies (I disabled HAL) but the icons do not show up when running.

[SublimePorte]

I did make it into a tce package, along with it's dependancies. However, I really don't know if it'll work for you, as it was quite a laborious process, and was my first attempt to make a tce. But if you like I can send you the tce's, also I built it without hal support, so it won't have auto-mounting of drives.

I built it for 1.x

[SublimePorte]

I didn't get the icons working, but I don't think it's too difficult, you just need to install a gnome set of icons and set them up in your gtkrc file.

[curaga]

Would gnome-icon-theme.tce in the 2.x repo help?

[robc]

Would gnome-icon-theme.tce in the 2.x repo help?

I believe that could solve the problem of the missing icons, the .gtkrc-2.0 file would need to have the right theme declared to use them. Would that extension be exclusively for 2.x? It is mostly png files.

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I just loaded the gnome-icon-theme.tce from 2.x into 1.x and put the following line in the file .gtkrc-2.0 in $HOME:

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gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"This allowed the icons to be used.

@SublimePorte
Are you going to submit your pcmanfm.tce to tcesubmit? If not I can send mine in with the dependencies as separate tces (gamin and libstartup-notification).

[SublimePorte]

robc,

Send yours in, as it was my first attempt at building an extension, and is probably pretty poor quality. Perhaps after I play around with building extensions more, I can release some other component of LXDE as an extension.

[robc]

Send yours in

Ok, I submitted it and the dependencies 

[SublimePorte]

Whilst trying to build openbox on 2.0rc I've realised the pango libraries are a bit outdated. (openbox requires 1.8 >= and we only have an extension for 1.22.4, which is from 2003). Is pango kept at such an old version for a reason? ie. compatability with some other component of TCL? Or would it be fine to just compile the most recent package?

edit:
Actually I've just realised they have a strange versioning system, 1.22 is higher than 1.8 (should be 1.08 I think), so we have newer libraries, but because the way the versioning system is, it detects it as being insufficient version.

[mikshaw]

Actually I've just realised they have a strange versioning system, 1.22 is higher than 1.8 (should be 1.08 I think)

That's not actually strange.  In the Linux world, versioning is not based on the decimal system, but on a system using a format of major.minor.patch

For example, 1.8 precedes 1.22, where 1.22 means one-point-twenty-two (the 22nd minor release) rather than one-point-two-two (the 2nd minor release with a 2nd patch)

[SublimePorte]

If that's the case, then the comparison test in the configure script for openbox isn't following the standard.

[curaga]

Heh, I remember the first time I saw that too
Ah, the nostalgy.

Anyway, the error message is not clear. Even though it says dependencies not met and lists versions, the issue is usually that it can't find the pkgconfig files (did you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH?)

[SublimePorte]

All env variables set as per wiki instructions, yes.

ran sed 's/1.8.0/1.22.4/g' on the configure script and it ran fine after that.

However, I now have the problem of not having xft available. Is this different to libXft?

[curaga]

No, libXft is the right one. It needs fontconfig and expat though, so not having those loaded might prevent compiling against it.