Subject:
|
Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:39:03 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
MATTDM@avoidspamMATTDM.ORG
|
Highlighted:
|
(details)
|
Viewed:
|
407 times
|
| |
|
|
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> There's a little capplet called "webcontrol" which ships with RHL6.1 which
> is *almost* exactly what I need, but I can't seem to locate its source code
> anywhere (it seems to be part of some larger package (what package, I have
> no idea) rather than being its own package). If I can find that somewhere,
> I can hack it to do something more specialized.
Sorry I can't answer the rest of your question, but I can tell you how to
find the source code of something under redhat. First, find the full name of
the applet binary:
thneed:~$ locate webcontrol
/etc/CORBA/servers/webcontrol_applet.gnorba
/usr/bin/webcontrol_applet
/usr/share/applets/Network/webcontrol_applet.desktop
Then, query RPM for the package to which the file belongs:
thneed:~$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/webcontrol_applet
gnome-core-1.0.39-10
So it's part of "gnome-core". You can do "rpm -qi gnome-core" (or "rpm -qif
/usr/bin/webcontrol_applet", for that matter) to find the exact name of the
source RPM -- sometimes, a src.rpm generates more than one binary rpm. Not
in this case, though.
So now, download gnome-core-1.0.39-10.src.rpm (or whatever) from the SRPM
tree of your favorite Red Hat mirror. Once you have that, there's several
ways you can get at the stuff inside. "rpm2cpio" would be one, but what I
recommend is:
Install the src.rpm:
thneed:~$ rpm -i gnome-core-1.0.39-10.src.rpm
If you have your /usr/src/redhat tree set up to be owned and writable by a
"source" group, which I recommend, you won't have to do this as root.
(Installing source packages is a strange quirk in RPM, because all it does is
unpack the SRPM to the various trees in /usr/src/redhat -- the resulting
files are *not* managed by RPM.)
Next:
thneed:~$ rpm -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/gnome-core.spec
This starts the rpm build process (-b) but only does it up through the prep
(-p) stage. The prep stage is responsible for unpacking the sources and
applying packages. So the result:
thneed:~$ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/
thneed:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD$ ls -l
total 1
drwxr-sr-x 17 mattdm sources 1024 Sep 21 10:50 gnome-core-1.0.39
And webcontrol.c is located in "gnome-core-1.0.39/applets/webcontrol/".
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
|
| On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:39:03 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?': (...) [snip excellent instructions] thanks a lot Matt! I never really delved into rpm, I usually compile and install my own (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
|
| Anyone know a quick (say, 15 minutes or less) way to kluge up a custom launcher application for a Gnome panel? Something with a small edit box is all that's needed. There's a little capplet called "webcontrol" which ships with RHL6.1 which is (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
11 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
