The Gentoo XD2 port project

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Yeah, sorry. I pasted it wrong. Told you to do a digest on a tar.gz rather than the ebuild. Do as the above post says. :oops:

rincewind · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject:

Hello !

Firast of all nice work you all have done !
XD2 is up and running after some minor issues discussed here before.
One thing I run into wich was not mentioned here is gnome complaining about missing xscreensaver.
Perhaps someone can put it in dependancy.

Thanks again
Rincewind

s3ntient · Guru Joined: 13 Apr 2003 Posts: 304 Location: Lyon, France

dessaliness · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:02 pm Post subject:

Lurid:
Hey Man. Whats Up? Ok, quickly to the business at hand. In relation to the above where you said:

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Hey neat. That worked.

Lovechild · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 3:40 pm Post subject:

Could we deserve an updated tarball, it's been a while with the beta one now - I'm curious as to the progress of XD2-Gentoo.

keep up the good work.

derlauer · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 15

sorry, but i didnt get how to install this port :oops:

i only have to extract the tarball to my /usr/portage dir and run emerge gnome?

does it matter, if i update my portage with the gnome-current tarball form breakmygentoo.net too, so that i emerge the xd2 port with the newest gnome files?

cu derlauer

Lovechild · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject:

Ian · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:41 am Post subject:

Lovechild, for your signature, it's "too"

(sorry, i'm usually apathetic to mispelling mistakes, but this one bugged me :p)

Does anyone know if there is a newer version of xd2gen2 that I can get? If there isn't one, do you know when there will be one?

If I can't get an answer, I guess I'll go and install the one I found in this thread, but I'd like to have the latest one, as it has been some time since the ebuild(s) were posted here.

erik_swanson · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:58 am Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:00 am Post subject:

Ian · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:47 am Post subject:

Oh, well, in that case, I'm safe, as I don't know any Danish

.

Unless, I bet there's some Danish word that somehow made it into "American" (it's not really English, let's face it, how many American's say they're going on "Holiday"?) and got mispelled horribly, but that wouldn't really count...

Erik, it's ok if you don't have the absolute latest and greatest, you are only one person, but I must admit, it would be nice if you would be able to at least update us a bit more on when the next version is coming out. If that in itself is too much, don't worry about it, cause we'll live, most of us that is, I hope...

Ian · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:57 am Post subject:

Hmm, seems I'm having trouble in my compiling...

Snake007uk · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject:

how far has this project got ?? i just installed xd2 on my redhat 9 system and i love it , biut i would prefer to have it on my gentoo system, will there be any differce in the gentoo version??

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max_colby · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject:

On that note, has the Ximian artwork been rebranded with Gnome artwork, or Gentoo artwork? Just curious!

Sounds like great work though!

Ian · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 4:22 am Post subject:

ok, i got everything compiled, but when i try to launch it, i get an error about gnome something segfaulting. i'll try to recreate it (probably very easily) as it happens as soon as i log in. where are the error logs stored, so i can get some better info on this?

lucida · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 191

hi! I've ported the industrial theme into IceWM(so you can use it in KDE).

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7128

enjoy

Ian · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

A bit of an update on my problem...

When I try to launch gnome (well, ximian-gnome) the Gnome Session Manager segfaults, every time, for no reason (that i can see) at all. I don't know where the error messages are, so I can't post them, but I would like this problem to be resolved ASAP, because I'd like to use Ximian.

On a second note, I didn't install several packages, the ones that everyone else had errors with on the forums, so as they did, I injected them and it installed. None of them included gnome session manager though.

Any ideas?

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

erik_swanson · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 12:21 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure why the gnome-sesion crash is happening, but you guys aren't alone; I've been stuck using fluxbox for the past week.
I have a hunch that it may be related to gtk2 and/or glibc, so if you guys who are crashing could post what versions of that you have installed it could help.

For some packages, you guys are going to have to start masking newer versions (I'll post a list of /etc/portage/package.mask lines along with beta2 later) because the old patches won't apply and Ximian hasn't updated them. If anyone wants to help forward-port the patches (some might not even be possible) you're welcome to PM me.

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

Ok, I think I can help...
I checked the forums for "gnome session manager" and came up with some hints, that maybe gnome-session needs to be rebuild. So I checked what emerge said to that and came up with this:

Ian · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I rebuilt the session-manager, worked once, then it crashed and doesn't work anymore. My luck, go figure :\.

Also, if I'm using GDM, I can't let my computer sit, or else it will log out for no reason at all. Haven't tried using the startx command yet though.

Lastly, the xd2gen2 XMMS patch (1.2.7-r30, i believe) does not compile. It gets about 10 minutes in, and dies. I don't have the error on me right now, but I'll try to post it tonight (I'm not home now).

The only other problem I had was that it ran a bit slow on my computer, but I think that's more of a hardware problem. Damn Athlon-Tbird, I'll need something better soon...

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

I definatly think most of these problems are due to Portage being updated and this being an older beta. I just did a reinstall of Gentoo and noticed some quirks with installing XD2 this time around that didn't happen before. The best way to install it now is to specify the ebuild itself. A lot of things that should have gotten built didn't, and some that did were the wrong version. Doing this

Ian · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 4:34 am Post subject:

I haven't tried Gnome lately on this computer, but I seem to remember it ran decently. Even KDE, while not snappy, was ok (but no where near as good as fluxbox/gnome/xd2gen2). If I can figure out the other problems, maybe I can try it again with some more optimizations? I'll see when it all works first...