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Re: [Oroborus-user] Oroborus/deskmenu under BSD
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Stefan Pfetzing |
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Re: [Oroborus-user] Oroborus/deskmenu under BSD |
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Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:56:38 +0200 |
Hi Maxime,
Am 20.08.2004 um 00:36 schrieb Maxime Guillaud:
I recently installed Oroborus (+deskmenu) on an OpenBSD machine. I
would like to give you some feedback in order to make it easier...
Ah, nice ;)
I downloaded version 2.0.13-1 and tried to install it. Unfortunately,
it seems that the "configure" file is not included, and I'm not
proficient enough in autoconf to generate it myself.
With recent autoconf and automake you can simply execute "autoreconf"
which will generate everything needed.
Fortunately, version 2.0.12 works good enough for me so I installed
this one. This is my second remark : could you make older versions of
the source available on the Oroborus website ? Many people rely on
older version for various reasons (because something changed and they
don't like it, because they don't want to deal with the new
dependencies, because they install from ports under xBSD and the port
has not been updated yet... actually that's where I found version
2.0.12 : the FreeBSD port !)
Well I'll change that, the next release will include a configure again,
and xmalloc will not be longer used.
For older versions, well I guess you're right with that, so I'll fix
that soon too and put up a directory with all sources I have access to,
maybe there are still some tar's lost... I dunno.
Ok, so now everything is fine with Oroborus. I went on and installed
deskmenu, which also had some compilation problems : it seems that the
error() function is not available under BSD (maybe it's a Linux thing
?). So I slightly patched the file xmalloc.c in order to reimplement
error().
I attach the patch.
Yup, this one will go away (xmalloc.c) in the next release, since it
gave more problems, than it helped.
Now I'm perfectly happy with Oroborus+Deskmenu+fspanel. For those who
don't know fspanel, I think that it's the perfect complement to
Oroborus, so check it out : http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/
Hehe, well about 2 years ago or such I used fspanel too. There is also
a "bigger" version of it, written in gtk and named fbpanel.
bye
Stefan
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