Comments on: Fixing the vertical panel window list on Ubuntu Hardy

By: Alexander Kojevnikov

Alexander Kojevnikov — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:54:15 +0000

Both do the job, but Carey’s patch is much simpler and smaller; and changes only libwnck

By: Andy Balaam

Andy Balaam — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:58:17 +0000

Thanks Alexander – how does this patch improve on the older ones?

By: Alexander Kojevnikov

Alexander Kojevnikov — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:23:04 +0000

Carey Underwood posted a patch in bgo#86382 which works quite well. Instructions for Arch Linux are here: http://versia.com/2009/09/05/arch-linux-yaourt-customizepkg-beauty/

By: amnuxoll

amnuxoll — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:12:36 +0000

Ok, it *does* work. I just needed to ignore the scary errors and have faith. Upon reboot the panel bug is gone on my system. Thank you, Andy!

The Synaptic Package Manager complains that I’ve got a broken dependency now but I’m pretty sure I’ll just have to live with that.

By: amnuxoll

amnuxoll — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:49:49 +0000

No go for me. I got this error installing the patched gnome-panel:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-panel:
gnome-session (2.26.0svn20090408-0ubuntu2) breaks gnome-panel (<< 1:2.23) and is installed.

Apparently I need to update gnome-session too? I can tell I’m in up to my neck already and don’t want to tinker too much for fear of trashing the whole thing.

By: amnuxoll

amnuxoll — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:10:37 +0000

cb474:

I also got the AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT error. I just fixed it by installing the libglib2.0-dev package.

Now let’s see if the rest of this works…

By: Andy Balaam

Andy Balaam — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:54:01 +0000

@John, thanks for the encouragement, and thanks for the advice for Walter!

By: John Bartholomew

John Bartholomew — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:19:55 +0000

nb: Just for completeness (not that it really matters), all these ‘–relative’ things are *two* dashes, then ‘relative’ — wordpress is just turning double-dash into an em-dash (which is quite right, just not good for code :P)

By: John Bartholomew

John Bartholomew — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:17:54 +0000

First, thank you so much for writing this, doing it this way was much easier than a manual build from the gnome git repositories (which I tried first).

@Walter: I had exactly the same problem. The reason (well, immediate reason at least) is that the GTKDOC_REBASE variable isn’t being set up, and make is trying to run ‘$(GTKDOC_REBASE) –relative …’, which expands into just ‘–relative …’, which bash then complains about since there is no –relative command. I don’t know what the real underlying cause is though. My solution was: make sure the gtkdoc package is installed, check that /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase exists, and then run ‘export GTKDOC_REBASE=/usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase’ before re-running dpkg-buildpackage. The build should now succeed. I didn’t have any other problems with Andy’s instructions, on a fresh Jaunty install.

By: Andy Balaam

Andy Balaam — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:01:04 +0000

@Walter, I’m sorry I don’t have any idea what’s causing this :( Is it just the docs that are going wrong? If so, there might be a ./configure flag that disables building the documentation?