On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:33, Larry W. Virden wrote: > Platform: SPARC Sun Solaris 2.8 and the Sun GNOME distribution. > > We're investigating an issue which potentially is related to the version > of metacity we are using - 2.4.1 . > > I've built metacity 2.4.55 and would like to test out the new version, > without having installed the binary and all the auxilary pieces over > top the vendor's current version. > > I'd prefer not to have to copy this new binary over top of /usr/bin/metacity. > Is there some file setting or command line I could issue to run the new version > of metacity without having to do this? Install in a separate prefix ($HOME/local/metacity, as an example) and run the binary from there. You can kill your running metacity binary and start the new one in a gnome-terminal window using: killall metacity ; sleep 1; $HOME/local/metacity/bin/metacity -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
