Fvwm with transluscent menu

Question

Here is new PKGBUILD for fvwm-devel 2.5.12 that apply the patch from cvs o have translucent menu like in kde. See screenshot at bottom.
# $Id$
# Maintainer: Tobias Kieslich <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tobias Kieslich <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>
pkgname=fvwm-devel
pkgver=2.5.12
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="A multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally derived from twm"
url="http://www.fvwm.org"
depends=('imlib' 'fribidi' 'perl' 'x-server' 'libpng')
source=(ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/fvwm-$pkgver.tar.bz2
fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff)
md5sums=('f323c59c2becb6766648b25b2111501c' '314d1fb9330744b83117e0d236b73887')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/fvwm-$pkgver
cp $startdir/fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff $startdir/src/fvwm-$pkgver/
patch -p1 < fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff
./configure --prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc
--libexecdir=/usr/lib
--with-xft-prefix=/usr/X11R6
--with-fontconfig=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm
cp sample.fvwmrc/* $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm
rm -f $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm/Makefile $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm/Makefile.am $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm/Makefile.in
You can download the patch from gentoo :
http://bchesneau.info/~benoitc/fvwm/fvw … menus.diff
or use the original :
http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0308/msg00315.html
Screenshot :
http://www.clan-hash.com/~guli/fvwm/Scr … 041105.jpg
[EDIT 2004/12/01]  Change path for the patch

Answer 1

hi! when i try to makepkg the fvwm-devel using a pkgbuild found in this forum, i get the error:
[root@Hall makepkg]# makepkg
==> Making package: fvwm-crystal  (sam déc  4 19:12:35 BRST 2004)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
==>
requires: fvwm-devel<=2.5.10
requires: habak
requires: xmms-shell
==>
[root@Hall makepkg]# cd ..
[root@Hall nbcjr]# cd New Folder/
[root@Hall New Folder]# ls
fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff  PKGBUILD  PKGBUILD~
[root@Hall New Folder]# makep
makepkg    makepsres 
[root@Hall New Folder]# makepkg
==> ERROR: Package destination directory does not exist or permission denied.
[root@Hall New Folder]#
i try to install fvwm-crystal i can't because i don't have the -devel, and when i try to install the -devel i get an error. Please help a newbie.
[root@Hall New Folder]# cat PKGBUILD
# $Id$
# Maintainer: Tobias Kieslich <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tobias Kieslich <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>
pkgname=fvwm-devel
pkgver=2.5.12
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="A multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally derived from
twm"
url="http://www.fvwm.org"
depends=('imlib' 'fribidi' 'perl' 'x-server' 'libpng')
source=(ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/fvwm-$pkgver.tar.bz2
fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff)
md5sums=('f323c59c2becb6766648b25b2111501c' '314d1fb9330744b83117e0d236b73887')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/fvwm-$pkgver
cp $startdir/fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff $startdir/src/fvwm-$pkgver/
patch -p1 < fvwm-2.5.11-translucent-menus.diff
./configure --prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc
--libexecdir=/usr/lib
--with-xft-prefix=/usr/X11R6
--with-fontconfig=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm
cp sample.fvwmrc/* $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm
rm -f $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm/Makefile $startdir/pkg/etc/fvwm/Makefile.am $sta
rtdir/pkg/etc/fvwm/Makefile.in
[root@Hall New Folder]#