[Goodies-dev] Newbie wants to work on xfce4-cpugraph-plugin

Connor Behan connor.behan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 21:53:49 CET 2011


Oh true. To make it overwrite the copy in /usr upon installation, the 
./configure step would have to be ./configure --prefix=/usr.

On 11/04/11 17:27, Christian Leitold wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 4 November 2011 00:59, Connor Behan<connor.behan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Keep two directories of the xfce4-cpugraph-plugin source... one that you
>>> modify and one you don't. If the modified plugin compiles on your system, go
>>> to that directory and run "sudo make install". That will overwrite the old
>>> copy of xfce4-cpugraph-plugin on your system and all you will need to do to
>>> test your changes is restart the panel.
>> It seems that this does not work for me. I have changed some obvious
>> settings (labels of the check boxes in properties.c), yet after an
>> make install as root, I still have the same default applet. Even after
>> logging out and starting a new session.
> The new plugin probably got installed in /usr/local/, whereas your
> machine by default looks to /usr/.
>
> I haven't tested recently, but if you already had the plugin installed,
> you should be able to kill the old one, and run the new one directly
> from the source directory. I.e,
>
>    ./src/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin
>
> or whatever the path to the binary is. Likewise you could run it from
> wherever-it-got-installed when you did a make install.
>

-- 
Sent from my Macbook Wheel 
<http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no,14299/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/goodies-dev/attachments/20111105/2ab2d207/attachment.html>


More information about the Goodies-dev mailing list