Comment 43 for bug 878820

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tshirtman (gabriel-pettier) wrote : Re: [Bug 878820] Re: Window Management, Keyboard shortcut - The grid keybindings are behaving inconsistently

Le lun. 19 mars 2012 23:57:00 CET, Gabriel Pettier a écrit :
> Le lun. 19 mars 2012 23:34:55 CET, Eric Bennett a écrit :
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> I should note in advance that at the end of the day, the fix posted up
>> there ended up segfaulting my compiz after a few random updates to
>> oneiric in mainline, I recompiled it a few times and eventually got so
>> tired of it I just reverted back to natty after trying pangolin (it's
>> not just broken there but *totally* broken, if I recall correctly the
>> plugin completely fails to work) and finding it no better.
>>
>> I also tried nuking the *entire* compiz distro and all supporting
>> infrastructure and rebuilding from source, but this is not much of a
>> better solution either, random segfaults aplenty still.
>>
>>
>> For those that wish to continue with this line of wrestling in
>> oneiric or pangolin you will want to be checking
>> http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Grid , you can grab the source via git
>> and recompile like so;
>>
>> git clone http://cgit.compiz-fusion.org/compiz/plugins/grid/
>>
>> cd grid
>> mkdir build
>> cd build
>> cmake ../
>> make
>> sudo make install
>>
>> But please keep in mind the problems I've iterated above and consider if
>> you really want to go through this yourself.
>>
>> Best of luck.
>>
>
> I think it's probably easier to look at compiz-plugins-main history on
> launchpad
> (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz-team/compiz-plugins-main/0.9.7/changes
> or one of the others, or maybe
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lbrulet-8/compiz-plugins-main/fix-876591/revision/21),
> find the first offending commit, and revert it in the current package
> source to rebuild the package.
>
> note that i didn't say «easy» i said «easier». But anybody finding the
> time to restore the cycling on left/right (whatever key si configured
> to them) will have my gratitude.

i would really try more to understand this patch if i had more time,
it's the most probable one to be linked to this bug in the set of
patches in the compij-plugins-main source package, alas my c++ foo is
really bad, and i really lack time to dive more into that.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lbrulet-8/compiz-plugins-main/fix-876591/revision/21#debian/patches/fix-862260.patch