Thank you so much! I applied the patch manually (cuz I don't know how to do 
it properly and I don't feel like finding out atm) and I recompiled and made 
an RPM. Yay! It works great.




On Tuesday 23 July 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 12:17, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On 23-Jul-2002 Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > > I determined what changes I needed to make -- the beta series wheel
> > > mouse patch only applies to switching workspaces, and thus only
> > > affected Screen.cc; the original patch I had was from x0r, and also had
> > > code for the window shading and thus affected Window.cc. I determined
> > > where to insert the code, did so, compiled, and everything works
> > > beautifully now.
> > >
> > > Since I know others on the list like to use this particular patch, I've
> > > now got another question: how do I make the patch? I'm not a C
> > > programmer, and I don't normally create or use patches. Do I simply do
> > > a diff on my files versus the original source?
> >
> > basically.
> >
> > cd blackbox
> > make distclean
> > cd ..
> > cp -a blackbox blackbox-orig
> > cd blackbox
> > <hack hack hack>
> > make distclean
> > cd ..
> > diff -pruN blackbox-orig blackbox > mystuff.patch
> >
> > the -pru option is the format I prefer, other projects may request -prc.
> >
> > Once you have your patch go to sf.net and place it on blackbox's patch
> > tracker so others can enjoy.
>
> Thanks for the instructions! I've done this, and the patch is now
> uploaded to the sf.net patch tracker.
>
> --Matthew

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