Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome2 now in portage!

[JR Boyens]

Good work! I installed Gnome2 through portage and then uninstalled it all... Bad idea, hosed a lot of things. Mostly icons and the like, but still, everything was funny for awhile.

Fixed now,
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JR Boyens
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:55:08AM +0200 or thereabouts, Spider wrote:
> I'm happy to announce:
> Gnome2 beta5 + is now avaiable in portage!
> its mostly masked for testing, and you will have to edit your
> /usr/portage/package.mask to  get it install-able
>
> Just search for "gnome2" and you will find it fairly simply.
> there's a lot of packages there for you, just add a # in front of them,
> then proceed.
>
> emerge gnome will then emerge Gnome2 desktop beta5, but it will not
> emerge every application that is ported to gnome2.
> (some programs avaiable are: ggv, mrproject, gimp, gnumeric )
>
> Yes, its possible to get AA text in Gnome2
> export GDK_USE_XFT=1
> then startx and you will have it.
>
> to launch Gnome 2 just set you XSESSION to "gnome" and there you are.
>
> This will replace your normal Gnome Desktop, but will leave all Gnome
> applications in working order.
>
> If you want your old panel run : "panel"
> for the old Gnome Control Center run : "gnomecc"
>
> In following of the Sun and Gnome predictate, the default installed
> WindowManager is "Metacity". Sawfish is also avaiable as a snapshot, or
> with your old version.
>
> please, report all crashes with bugzilla to the Gnome release team.
>
> report all package inconsistencies to me, Spider@g.o
>
> happy testing,
>
>    Spider
>
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