-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/12 19:18, Uli Schlachter wrote: > On 09.06.2012 19:04, Rainer M Krug wrote: [...] >> OK - I installed awesome in a non-standard location by using >> >> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/rkrug/inst/awesome/ make make install >> >> which looks fine for me, as I can easily delete th directory >> /home/rkrug/inst/awesome/ and it >> is gone. In addition, it does not interfere with my Ubuntu stable awesome >> install, and the >> debian menu is still there. >> >> So: But how can I use my new installation? I could specify the path to the >> new awesome in >> the xsessions file to start it, but I assume that awesome-client will then >> be the one >> installed system wide? > > awesome-client should be identical between both versions. It's just a shell > script, so you > could use "diff" to check for differences.
Makes sense - I'll check. And if I modyfy PATH as you suggest below, the new awesome-client would be used anyway. > >> Is there an easy way, of using my git awesone installation, but still having >> the stable one >> installed via ubuntu available? > > I guess I'd just add that path to $PATH: > > PATH=/home/rkrug/inst/awesome/bin:$PATH > > Since it comes before /usr/bin in $PATH, the apps in there would be found > first. Modifying the PATH would certainly acommodate that the new version would be used, but what about the lua libraries? What are the seach paths for these? If I modify PATH and start awesome, will it first look for lua libraries in /home/rkrug/inst/awesome/lib ? Rainer > >> I am a little reluctant to remove the ubuntu one, as then the debian menu >> would be removed >> and possibly other features as well. > [...] > > Uli -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/Tl/AACgkQoYgNqgF2egpbqQCdEYS18liJI0d5R6iA6+TaywC5 k7MAoIvFgCKwpQrIkc/KQ2IDElCKx5sM =z4pN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
