Re: helix gnome for AlphaLinux available

[Alvin Starr <alvin iplink net>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Peter Petrakis wrote:

> Well almost all of it :-)
> missing from here is 
> 
> librep
> repgtk
> sawfish
> sawfish-themes
> gnome-pim

I got just about as far. The problem I have is that I wanted sawfish.

> I compiled repgtk once fine and I "had" an rpm that I had deleted when I
> started this new build. Now it doesnt want to build. You dont really need
> it it's just gnome will default to sawfish which aint there. So simple
> startup your gnome-session which will have no window manager, startup
> control-center and change your default WM. I use E anyways. 
> I'll continue to work on the librep/sawfish rpms and the gnome-pim rpm
> looks like the rpm spec needs some fiddling. I thought I'd release the
> bulk of it now instead of waiting till I had every little last thing done. 
> Also those of you who have uploaded anything to ftp.alphalinux.org will
> find now that those items have been moved to their proper locations. I
> apologize but I've been busy with other things and the ftp site has
> amassed quite a bit of new rpms. The helix-gnome rpms can be found at
> ftp.alphalinux.org/pub/gnome/helix-gnome .

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