[desktop-discuss] New Compiz 0.6.2 and Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 packages

Erwann Chenede Erwann.Chenede at Sun.COM
Thu Nov 1 09:26:06 PDT 2007


Hi Albert,

Albert Lee wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I've just finished porting Compiz 0.6.2 and Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 to
> Solaris and the updated package recipes are in spec-files-extra.
>   
Excellent !
> A tarball of SVR4 packages is available at:
> http://trisk.acm.jhu.edu/compiz/compiz-packages-0.6.2-s11-i386.tar.bz2
>
> You will have to uninstall any existing packages first
> To install, type:
> bzcat compiz-packages-0.6.2-s11-i386.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
> cd compiz-packages-0.6.2-s11-i386
> for file in *.pkg; do pkgadd -d $file all; done
>
> As a note, this will not automatically create an icon on your desktop
> like the previous version; instead, use fusion-icon
> (All Applications->System Tools->Compiz Fusion Icon) to launch Compiz. 
>
> If you use JDS and want Compiz to be the default window manager:
> echo 'WINDOW_MANAGER=start-compiz; export WINDOW_MANAGER' >> ~/.gnomerc
>
>
> Emerald is currently not included.
>   
The SFE  Emerald 0.5.2 packages should be compatible with this release
> The update involved a lot more work than I expected (all of the
> supplemental code supplied in patches has been replaced - for
> entertainment, look at the previous asprintf() implementation).
>
> Erwann, want to make a new installer for this?
>   
Will do.

          Erwann
> -Albert
>
>
>   



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