Masked Gnome2 Stuff

Erukian · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:00 pm Post subject: Masked Gnome2 Stuff

Has anyone tried upgrading to the masked Gnome stuff at the top of /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask?

Just curious if people had a successful time upgrading and if you did, please explain how stable it is compared to gnome2.0

Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

I'm compiling right now. I definetly suggest to install Metacity 2.4 though as it rocks and is much improved above 2.3. The install went very smooth for me, it just breaks old themes and the metacity-setup theme handling because it stores themes in /usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1/ now instead of /usr/share/metacity/themes/[themename]/. With some moving around and copying (you can make them work though, especially the newer ones like Wonderland (very slick).
Many annoying bugs are removed, for example do new windows get activated now and the minimazing animation looks quite ok now. Another change is that panels are always on top now which makes it to _me_ a lot more usable while others will (and already do) bitch about it.

Erukian · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:05 pm Post subject:

how do i tweak the metacity-setup program to look for themes in the new location? Im a newb so a little walkthrough would be nice

Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

You can't. Just place a "fake" folder in /usr/share/metacity/themes so Metacity-Setup thinks it's there and offers to set it.

I just found this out by trial and error so there might already be better solutions. Of course you can also always set the gconf key to set your theme manually with gconf-editor.

tsuru · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 4:04 am Post subject:

Until metacity (fluxbox too) allows you to unmap the Alt+Mouse bindings it's useless to people who like doing 3D work... specifically Maya people.

Although looking at metacity section in GConf looks like it might be able to ... but not for certain yet.

endoalpha · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

Sequentious · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 7:12 am Post subject:

I unmasked it. after trying to update world, and getting no results (other than another new portage, of course, and a few other items that had nothing to do with my newly unmasked ebuilds.

I used this script, (found here https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6050#c2) because alot of my gnome packages were not listed in the world file.

Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

Yes, running it now since yesterday, I had a lot of compiling problems but those are most probably specific to my system and they were all "fixable".
All the bugs I were aware of were fixed so I'm happy with this. It won't change a lot, just minor adjustments.
As for other Metacity changes, see this thread:
http://help.gnomedesktop.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=283

mikulus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77

I did this and and it works:

bod · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 26 Location: UK

I've been running the new stuff for a few days - no problems compiling and no stability problems.
Icon changing on the panel now works correctly, and Metacity does indeed autofocus a new window.

The only annoyance is the *#$&ing taskbar which is now *always* on top - mplayer, xine and even Warcraft III can't cover it.

Sequentious · Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 4:26 pm Post subject:

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

where did you get the wonderland theme, i can't seem to find any metacity themes (themes.org ahs only 2 )

Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

To get the Bluecurve (the new name of Wonderland) themes, follow this instructions:
http://help.gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=348

You will find themes there for Gtk1, Gtk2, XMMS, Nautilus, Metacity, GDM (couldn't make this work, don't know if it's completeted) and even KDE(!) there (which I also couldn't make work but my KDE installation is quite primitive), so you can get a _very_ integrated desktop appearance.

I love it, I just prefer Metabox (it's a new standard Metacity theme which seems to be modelled after blackbox/fluxbox) to the Bluecurve Metacity theme right now, for some reason I can't get myself to like the rounded corners of Bluecurve. :/ And Metabox is pretty stylish.

Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

My desktop after some "redhat-love".

Showing Gtk1 (Galeon, Gaim) and Gtk2 (Nautilus, Preferences) apps, also XMMS and Metacity theme is Metabox.

Sequentious · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 1:47 am Post subject:

I'm using the wonderland themes from Redhat's rpm for gtk 1 & 2. Im using sawfish, as it still kicks the pants off of metacity thus far (although granted, i havent given the new metacity much of a shot, i will do that this weekend).

I think if i was to use metacity, THIS would be THE theme to use. http://tigert.gimp.org/files/metacity/TigertCrack.png
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gravis · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 12:38 pm Post subject: Metacity themes

I always had pb with metacity ... Even if the themes I installed were listed, I couldn't use them.

A tip :

ebuild /usr/portage/x11-wm/metacity/metacity-2.3.987-r2.ebuild merge

it works now !

sisob · Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 2:00 pm Post subject:

I'm running 2.0.2rc1 - great stuff

Works prefectly and compiled perfectly and there are loads of bugs
gone

Metacity-setup is a bit broken ATM - just use gconf-editor
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