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Can I get some help on how to get a globalmenu applet in my top panel?

I’m a noob with 11.3 and GNOME 2.30.0 desktop. I checked the packman repository … not there. I tried to build the tarball from …

Downloads - gnome2-globalmenu - Project Hosting on Google Code

… but got hung up when sudo ./configure replied:
test for libpanelapplet-2.0 and libnotify failed. (–without-gnome-panel to disable)

the error did not go away when i installed libnotify-devel (and libpanel-applet-2-0 was already plugged int).

thanks in advance.

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Hi
I’ve had a look and have build rpm’s for a 64bit test system. The spec
file is here gnome-globalmenu.spec - Pastebin.com

I haven’t had a chance to put it on the build service as I’m heading
off on vacation and won’t be back for a week or so.

Maybe someone in the forum will pick it up and build else put the spec
file and source in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and use the command;


rpmbuild -ba gnome-globalmenu.spec

You then need to install manually. Oh and once you add to the panel,
logout/login.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.34-12-default
up 8:39, 2 users, load average: 0.79, 0.79, 0.53
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thanks for this, but not there yet.

i put the downloaded tarball and your spec file in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES. after running the rpmbuild command the first time i found two additional dependencies (gnome-panel-devel and xfce4-panel-devel), which i then installed from the openSUSE OSS repository. after calling rpmbuild a second time i get:

/usr/src/packages/SOURCES> rpmbuild -ba gnome-globalmenu.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.zKrCnX
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ rm -rf gnome-globalmenu-0.7.9
+ /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/gnome-globalmenu-0.7.9.tar.bz2
+ /bin/tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd gnome-globalmenu-0.7.9
+ /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ $'\r'
: command not foundrCnX: line 34: 
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.zKrCnX (%prep)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.zKrCnX (%prep)

i can’t begin to interpret this error …

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Hi
Did you check the source download is ok? Can you also check the spec
file is ok by comparing to the one on pastebin.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) Kernel 2.6.32.13-0.4-pae
up 0:06, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.38, 0.24
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

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Move the spec file to /usr/src/packages/SPECS
and keep the tarball in sources :slight_smile:

what happens now when you do the build command Malcom gave you?

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[vacation_mode_disabled]
Hi
It’s all built and you should find the packages here;
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=globalmenu&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.3&lang=en&exclude_debug=true
[vacation_mode_enabled]

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (i586) Kernel 2.6.32.13-0.4-pae
up 23:30, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.13, 0.07
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

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thanks, Malcolm. Now go, enjoy your vacation!

Perhaps the applet isn’t ready for prime-time yet. I installed from the build service, got the applet in the panel … but it was empty. I think I’ll give up for now, but hope to see an option for this style of menu built-in to a future GNOME release.

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Hi
If you remove the applet from the panel and uninstall the version you
have installed via YaST. The go back into yaST and install the new
version I have built you should be good to go (it’s version 0.7.9-11.1)

I did have to right-click and reposition the applet in the panel to see
it all.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel 2.6.34-12-desktop
up 0:51, 2 users, load average: 0.67, 0.74, 0.48
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME