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About:
CDEmu is an integrated theme to give your desktop the look of CDE. It includes a Perl script that generates setup files for the Fvwm window manager, and gtkrc, qtrc, kdeglobals, and xresources files so that all colors and fonts are consistently used in all applications. The theme includes a custom GTK engine mimicking CDE/Motif widgets. Color schemes, fonts, and backdrops can be chosen using a number of dialogs. The theme also contains a CDE-like panel application written in GTK-Perl. Furthermore, a 'well'-structured menu tree is generated containing all applications found on your computer. GTK-Perl 7.008 and fvwm5.2.3 are required (development snapshot). The theme is pre- alpha; expect bugs. For the current release to work, the 20020716 snapshot of fvwm is needed.
Author:
jos [contact developer]
Homepage:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvanr/fvwm.html
Tar/GZ:
http://download.freshmeat.net/[..]hemes/cdemu/cdemu-development-0.6.tar.gz
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Compilation of the engine fails
by wow - Feb 17th 2004 07:36:08
When I try to compile the source in the directory "engine",
the configure is succesful. When invoking make, it is complaining about a
"missing separator".
Because I am not known in the tool make, could someone give me a hint,
what is going wrong.
Here is the screenshot:
root@athene:~/cde-theme/engine# make
Makefile:181: *** missing separator. Stop.
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How I brought it to work with SuSE 9
by Marco - Jan 6th 2004 02:37:24
The theme is the best CDE emulation one can imagine !
I would like to give some hints if the installation is not working (which
was the case
when i tried it first):
- The fvwm2 shipped with SuSE 9 seems to be
unable to call callback-handlers in the perl-
script. Therefore, to invoke the modules like
the frontpanel, color dialog etc.
edit the script cdemu and invoke the functions
from the main function. For the frontpanel,
this is for example the method "cdemu_panel()".
- It seems that it's not possible to load the
theme from the kde-login. This will lead to
an error that tells you that there is already
a win-manager running. I had to change my kde-
configuration to not load the graphical login,
but use the text-login. Then you can startup the theme by simply
calling startx.
- The theme is searching for a file called
libcdemu.so. This filename seems to be
generated by the gtk-themes - engine when
the engine reads from the rc-file and finds
the "engine" string (which is cdemu).
The default makefile in the project didn't
generate this library for me, only generated
an ar-file. It is, however, very easy to
create such a Shared Library using GCC with the
-shared option (lookup in the internet for the
details).
Still, I had to modify the cdemu script, because it is re-writing the
.gtkrc file on launching. That's why it is impossible to set a
module-path in the ~/.gtkrc - it simply gets
overwritten ! The module-path setting has to be
inserted into the script itself.
Like this , I got it to work and I love it !
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Re: How I brought it to work with SuSE 9
by panlm - Aug 8th 2004 01:12:49
hi Marco , i can't find libcdemu.so.
can u help me ?
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Re: How I brought it to work with SuSE 9
by jos - Nov 22nd 2004 04:31:34
Hello!
please do this in the 'engine' directory, after 'make':
gcc -shared -o libcdemu.so draw.o
you will find a file libcdemu.so then. Copy this to
/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines/
and it should work.
I should somehow put this automatically in the makefile, but
I just can't figure out how to get this done... It used to work
a year ago or so... If somebody can help me with this, to get
the make corrected, I'd be very grateful. Until then, use this
workaround.
Jos
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