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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:35:07 -0800 |
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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> If you love gnome2 you'll be thrilled when you install the gentoo |
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> 'mate' overlay. It's like coming home for the holidays and putting |
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> on your old fuzzy slippers :) |
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> I had to work around two minor problems before the whole package would |
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> build: |
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> 1) I had to remove the pulseaudio useflag for mate-setting-daemon: |
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> #grep mate /etc/portage/package.use |
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> mate-base/mate-settings-daemon -pulseaudio |
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> 2) The mate package doesn't know about our multi-slot python thing, |
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> so the configure script couldn't find <Python.h> |
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> This is an embarrassing hack, but you can remove it after installing |
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> mate: |
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> #cd /usr/include |
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> #ln -s python2.7 python [or python3.3 if that's what you use]. |
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> I'd suggest removing that symlink after mate is installed because |
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> gentoo doesn't do python that way and might get confused in the |
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> future. |
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I have switched from Gnome2 to Fxce4 without all that troublehacking |
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in such a way that even my friend, who used to work as a system |
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administrator, could not tell a difference when I showed him my |
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previous Gnome2 and my current Xfce4 sessions. |
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> I use startx, so I just put 'exec mate-session' in my .xinitrc, |
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> and now I'm sooooo happy :) :) :) |
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And, yes, I also use startx and .xinitrc to start my xfce4 session. |
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