SoulSe Posted March 9, 2003 Report Share Posted March 9, 2003 I was trying to get idesk going when I stumbled over this: http://www.fluxbox.org/fbdesk/ Now why would I use idesk when the friendly people at fluxbox.org have written a program specifically for fluxbox that does the same job? That said, I have not installed it yet, so this might be a tad premature... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 9, 2003 Report Share Posted March 9, 2003 http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...3490&highlight= Actually, you could have seen it earlier; icons are done with idesk http://linuxhelp.hn.org/idesk.phpthere is also fbdeskhttp://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/ :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tyme Posted March 9, 2003 Report Share Posted March 9, 2003 fbdesk was always querky for me, and i got idesk working fine at one point (on 9.0). i.e.: fbdesk icons never quite looked right, and the program had a tendency to freeze. not sure why... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 9, 2003 Report Share Posted March 9, 2003 I've had more luck with idesk than I have with fbdesk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 I can't get idesk to compile..... actually, now that I think about, I can't get ANYTHING to compile! [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ make g++ -g -O2 -c Desk.cc -o Desk.o make: g++: Command not found make: *** [Desk.o] Error 127 [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ make install install idesk /usr/local/bin install: cannot stat `idesk': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ su Password: [root@skratch idesk-0.3.5]# make g++ -g -O2 -c Desk.cc -o Desk.o make: g++: Command not found make: *** [Desk.o] Error 127 [root@skratch idesk-0.3.5]# make install install idesk /usr/local/bin install: cannot stat `idesk': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 I get similar stuff with other programs, I have all the libraries, headers, etc. installed. I've never dealt with this problem cus I've always found RPMs for what I need and I've never fully learnt all the ins and outs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 did you run ./configure first? you need to create a proper makefile before you compile. also, you only need to run make install as root, not make. and I have to agree on fbdesk, it is not ready for public consumption, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 if you can't get anything to compile then it may be a problem with gcc idesk is a pretty simple program, so if this won't compile, I would look into gcc paul@trinity paul $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. paul@trinity paul $ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 ah, Paul, you just reminded me. I believe you are right. SoulSe, look in the makefile, what does it say for CC= ? I definitely could be that it is calling the wrong compiler. Try switching g++ with c++ in the makefile and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 Ok, this is weird. Firstly: [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. I also tried swapping g++ with c++ in my makefile and got the same errors: [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ vim Makefile [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ make c++ -g -O2 -c Desk.cc -o Desk.o make: c++: Command not found make: *** [Desk.o] Error 127 [simon@skratch idesk-0.3.5]$ make install install idesk /usr/local/bin install: cannot stat `idesk': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 Now I'm stumped. Everything seems fine, but I cannot make or make install anything. ./configure does nothing for idesk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 what do you get with rpm -qa | grep gcc [bvc@localhost bvc]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc gcc-3.2-1mdk gcc-gpc-2.95.3-5mdk libgcc1-3.2-1mdk gcc-objc-3.2-1mdk gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk gcc2.96-c++-2.96-0.80mdk gcc-c++-3.2-1mdk gcc-cpp-3.2-1mdk gcc-g77-3.2-1mdk gcc-gpc-devel-2.95.3-5mdk gcc-java-3.2-1mdk gcc2.96-cpp-2.96-0.80mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 whats the out put of ./configure ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 there is no configure, Configure, .configure [bvc@localhost bvc]$ ls -a /home/tar/idesk-0.3.5./ Database.cc Database.o Desk.h Icon.cc Icon.o Main.cc Makefile ../ Database.h Desk.cc Desk.o Icon.h idesk* Main.o README [bvc@localhost bvc]$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 Far less... [simon@skratch simon]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc gcc-3.2-1mdk gcc-cpp-3.2-1mdk libgcc1-3.2-1mdk No .configure or anything remotely similar for idesk. Can't anyone make an rpm? I would if I knew how :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 If you have the space (not much), just start installing devel rpm's. It'll save you a lot of time and headache. [bvc@localhost bvc]$ urpmf --summary gcc-cppgcc-cpp:summary:The C Preprocessor [bvc@localhost bvc]$ urpmf --summary gcc-objc gcc-objc:summary:Objective C support for gcc [bvc@localhost bvc]$ urpmf --summary gcc2.96-c++ gcc2.96-cpp:summary:The C Preprocessor gcc2.96-c++:summary:C++ support for gcc gcc2.96-colorgcc:summary:Gcc output colorizer [bvc@localhost bvc]$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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