Metisse

BillyBoy · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject:

Does anyone else get this compile error? I'm wracking my brain getting it to compile. All the preceding modules needed compiled clean.

I **NEED** metisse! I can't go a day without twirling a window!

Thesee · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

Does anyone still use metisse???
I was wondering it because I installed it and have a couple of questions:

1. Some of the key bindings on the official website aren't working for me (or I'm missing something):
e.g.: when I type <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+T in a window (Firefox for example) or on the border of it, it takes the window keybind and not the metisse one (it should increase the transparency). Am I missing something?
2. I'm using taviso's config for FVWM (adapted to my needs) and I'd like to keep it with metisse. Any chance to do that without filling in all the config files in .fvwm-metisse? :p I saw on his personnal page on Gentoo that he was also using metisse at some point. Any chance to find a trace of his configs? I searched here on the Gentoo forums and FVWM ones but no success

3. When I start metisse, I lose Direct Rendering (from glxinfo)

pacho2 · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject:

Metisse is still alive:
http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/

And mandriva will include it, Is there any overlay with ebuilds for installing it?

Thanks for information

bitpicker · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

Itr seems that the matisse and nucleo ebuilds were removed from portage in November or so (I googled for info and found a newsletter from back then which said so).

I've only heard about metisse now, and I have downloaded the Mandriva CD. It would be nice to have this as an alternative desktop in my Gentoo, too. I have downloaded the nucleo and metisse sources, but nucleo won't compile. It first threw out a qt error, saying that some moc was too new, but disabling qt is an option. However, now the make process ends with:

swimmer · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

I had to install net-misc/mDNSResponder to get nucleo compiled ...

HTH
swimmer

PS: Because I'm running AMD64 I had to apply those patches as well ...

PPS: Now I have to see whether Metisse compiles as well

pacho2 · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject:

I think that could be nice open a new forum thread dedicated to make ebuilds and find patches for install Metisse in Gentoo..., I don't know many about doing ebuilds, but I could be a tester ;-)

If anybody opens a forum thread with this topic, please, post the link in this thread (I am spanish and I usually am reading Spanish Forum)

Thanks :-)

bitpicker · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

@ swimmer: thanks for the hint, I wasn't aware of that package. I have installed it and nucleo is compiling at the moment.

Robin

pacho2 · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject:

http://www.hboeck.de/item/433 ;-)

Drakx · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 3

I just played with it on laptop with i810 card and it worked quite well

cannot wait for an offical ebuild.

bitpicker · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

That ebuild is too late, I compiled it by hand. It works beautifully inside XFce4 (taking up one virtual desktop) and as a standalone GUI. The FVWM is going to need some serious tweaking before I really like it, but the Metisse features seem to be a little more geared towards productive use than in Beryl or Looking Glass, as far as I am concerned. Especially the fact that angled windows remain usable is great. I'm thinking of terminals compiling something which I want to keep an eye on, sitting almost at right angles to me near the side of the desktop while I'm working with a larger application taking up the rest of the screen.

Screenshots are no problem with Gimp, at least if Gimp is running in the underlying GUI; I started it in XFce, set it to make a snapshot after ten seconds, went over to the virtual desktop where Metisse was running and the shot was made.

http://www.nyboria.de/images/metisse1.jpg

http://www.nyboria.de/images/metisse2.jpg

Robin

Aliander · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 45

hi guys!

I'm just running a quite nice configured e17. is there a possibly way to get metisse running with e17?

thanks for any suggestions

mlg Ali

ThomasAdam · Guru Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 448 Location: England

kfiaciarka · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject:

I can't compile nucleo:/

kfiaciarka · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject:

emerging

Dominique_71 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

I get a blocked package when trying to emerge metisse.

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Dominique_71 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject:

Basically, gentoo doesn't manage where the applications reside, with a few exceptions as binary only softwares in /opt. /usr is used as prefix for almost anything else. In this case, it implies at when installing both fvwm and metisse, the files in /usr/bin will be the files from the last installed. I think at it is why they are blocking each other.

I try to install metisse by hand in /usr/local, but it doesn't seam to work. I changed /etc/X11/Sessions/fvwm-crystal into

Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject:

I tried it, but on a 2.5 MHz Athlon-xp laptop without direct rendering it's dog slow. Do I have to compile nucleo or metisse with some particular option or does it actually need 3D and a recent computer, contrary to what the Metisse guys say?

edit: ok I confused the meaning. They don't mean you can run it normally on sofware, it does need OpenGL; just very little of it, so it runs on any card, but it must be a 3D accelerated card.
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reup · Guru Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 419 Location: Nederland

easy post :

from the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Metisse last modified : This page was last modified 19:36, 9 February 2007.

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

reup: Metisse has been removed from portage several months ago. If you want to emerge it you need to get custom ebuilds. There is a link to an overlay in the wiki page you mentioned, though I don't know if it's still active.

reup · Guru Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 419 Location: Nederland

thanks KarnEvil,

right in the intro, I really must learn to read the manual !
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

Is there anyone left using metisse on Gentoo?
I wanted to give it a try but it's been removed from portage as I read in the thread (any reason why?).
Is the project still alive - is it worth rying to buid it myself?
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i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:10 am Post subject:

I'd say that metisse is a one person project for one person, even if you go upstream the activity of the project is the closest you get get to absolute zero. Even in the times when actually four of five persons around the world used it, it improved very slowly if at all.

It doesn't keep up with fvwm either, and there's nothing about it in the recent fvwm mailing (only a few from around 2004), which would be the way to go if this project wanted to survive/there was any interest in it at all. Still, you can compile it by hand or rescue one of the old ebuilds, they should probably work with few or no modifications because metisse hasn't changed much.

ThomasAdam · Guru Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 448 Location: England