Gnome2 Forks

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Messenger
<mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
<snip>
>> I think that's the idea.  I believe Mezz has been working on Cinnamon,
>> and has had some good success.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/freebsd-cinnamon.png  :-)
>
> Cinnamon has awful a lot of hardcore paths and I had to patch it a
> lot. It's not exactly stable. When I visit to some specific website
> and it will causing Cinnamon crash for some odd reason. Some of
> applets are missing that I haven't check on it yet. Probably yet
> another path patch or something else.
>
> This weekend, I will try to clean up quick and put two ports in MC for
> anyone can play with Cinnamon.

I couldn't put both in MC, because it will not fetch from github.com's
tag. I haven't figure out how to make the fetch works. The github's
tag stuff has some weird redirect. I bet the wget will working better
than fetch. For now, you will have to download the distfiles and put
those in /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome3 by manual.

Here's two ports, x11/cinnamon and x11-wm/muffin.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/cinnamon.shar
http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/muffin.shar

Download the distfiles:

https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/tags (click on TAR.GZ)
https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin/tags (click on TAR.GZ)

> BTW: You will need nvidia-driver for it both gnome-shell and Cinnamon.
> Without it, you will be in the fallback mode instead of
> gnome-shell/Cinnamon.

The new Xorg has been committed. Someone should try new Xorg with
gnome-shell or cinnamon to see if it will better or not. I have no
idea though.

Cheers,
Mezz


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