Cairo-xcb for awesome window manager
Posted: 5. Aug 2012, 22:41
I followed the steps put forth on this site. and was able to get the awesome window manager running alongside my Salix 13.37 MATE installation.
I used SlackBuild to make the cairo package, so it is not useful for package submission as a Salix package ticket.
There was a comment made in the Hacker Public Radio interview with gapan and shador that some people (Peter64) might enjoy running awesome on Salix. I enjoy running awesome as well and found that it required cairo with xcb enabled.
From cairo.SlackBuild
I don't know if --enable-xcb is now stable as the tutorial is over a year old or if anyone would be interested in allowing an alternative cairo package with xcb enabled to be included in the repositories, but I do know that it won't be that easy for new users to get awesome running on their Salix installation without it.
I am volunteering myself for the purpose of building such a package with slkbuild this time, and if accepted, for building the awesome window manager package later.
Feel free to discourage me from wasting my time if there is no interest in adding these packages or if anyone thinks they can do a better job of it, I won't be offended. Life is short and I'm not getting any younger.
I used SlackBuild to make the cairo package, so it is not useful for package submission as a Salix package ticket.
There was a comment made in the Hacker Public Radio interview with gapan and shador that some people (Peter64) might enjoy running awesome on Salix. I enjoy running awesome as well and found that it required cairo with xcb enabled.
From cairo.SlackBuild
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# None of these are 'stable' yet...
# --enable-qt \
# --enable-gl \
# --enable-drm \
# --enable-xcb \
# --enable-xlib-xcb \
# --enable-xcb-drm \
# --enable-drm-xr \
# Skipping this, because it causes a dependency on the specific
# version of binutils installed at compile time:
# --enable-trace
I am volunteering myself for the purpose of building such a package with slkbuild this time, and if accepted, for building the awesome window manager package later.
Feel free to discourage me from wasting my time if there is no interest in adding these packages or if anyone thinks they can do a better job of it, I won't be offended. Life is short and I'm not getting any younger.