Comment 9 for bug 1026411

Hi, I have made the .egg of my changes. You can install it by* "sudo
easy_install http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1168249/caffeine-2.4.1-py2.7.egg"*.
This is slightly different from a .deb file but should work as good. It
would be great if people can test it and let me know.

Karthik T

On 26 November 2012 14:09, Karthik T <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Rohit,
>
> You have a couple of options.
>
> You could apply the patch directly to the code that is currently installed
> - that is in /usr/shared/pyshared/caffeine.
> You could also download the latest code from the repo, apply the patch to
> it, and then either run "make install" to install it. Or just use the
> patched version from that location itself by using its absolute path.
>
> To use the patch itself you want to go into the folder that is 1 level
> above the files such as core.py. This would be /usr/shared/pyshared/ for
> the first option, or the top directory of the checked out code for option 2
> You would then run the command patch < /path/to/file to apply the patch
> itself. The patch file is a text file, so you can open it to see what the
> changes are, and you can confirm that the changes have happened if you want
> to check. You can look at
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/appy-patch-file-using-patch-command/ for
> more info about applying patches. If you have any other questions pls feel
> free to ask.
>
> I was hoping that this code would get integrated into the code base and a
> new package built, but this doesnt seem to be happening. Let me see if I
> can build a .deb with the patch applied to help others.
>
> Karthik T
>
>
> On 25 November 2012 17:30, Rohit Pande <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Thx, Kartik T. However I am a n00b. This is a foreign language to me. :)
>> I have the .deb file that i downloaded. Other than that I noticed that
>> the file for Caffeine is located at the following locations on my
>> machine: /usr/share/caffeine. Another folder is located under
>> /usr/share/doc/caffeine, and yet another at
>> usr/shared/pyshared/caffeine. And yes, there is a caffeine file in
>> /usr/bin also.
>>
>> Would it please be possible for someone to pls let us know how to do
>> this? Thanks a lot.
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026411
>>
>> Title:
>> Caffeine does not work for Linux Mint - Mate version
>>
>> Status in Caffeine:
>> New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Hi, Caffeine currently does not work as is for the MATE version of
>> linux mint, since as a part of their forking of Gnome 2 all the names
>> have changed. I have attached a patch of the changes i have made to
>> get it to work with MATE, basically just copied over the GNOME parts
>> and replaced the names with the correct ones. It works perfectly on my
>> machine.
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