GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode [LWN.net]

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 22, 2012 17:31 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by Thanatopsis
Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

jhbuild introduction.
http://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/

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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 22, 2012 19:26 UTC (Thu) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019) [Link]

Yea, I found that. I don't see any docs on how to do parallel installs of GNOME.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 22, 2012 20:13 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

you configure jhbuild to install into a directory tree that is non standard. In the examples in the docs that is /opt/gnome/
jhbuild when used to run gnome-session sets up shell environment variables so gnome components use the files installed via the jhbuild process.

If you want to look at specific environment changes you run:
jhbuild shell
and you can examine the environment variables accordingly.

-jef

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 23, 2012 0:12 UTC (Fri) by Thanatopsis (guest, #14019) [Link]

DOH! How did I miss that? Thanks.