How to build the latest Tint2 with a tintconf gui frontend that actually works

[Lizbeth]

This is technicall a cross post as i poseted it in reply to another post but i thought it was best to give it its own attention


also here is a debian independent binary for tint2 ver 0.12rc5 that is supposed to have a tint2conf, a gui tool to edit tint2.  also i haven't tested it yet.  the source is here:  https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2


if you wish to make your own debian binary of it

start by installing some dependencies:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake autotools-dev dh-make debhelper devscripts fakeroot xutils lintian pbuilder dh-make cmake git


also we need some more specific dependencies that require the enabling of source repos which sparky has by enabled default so

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sudo apt-get build-dep tint2



now create a directory to build it in

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mkdir build directory

cd build directory

mkdir tint2

cd tint2


now we clone the git directory where the new tint2 is located

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git clone https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2.git

to build the source we need an original tarball in a specific format but the git directory doesn't include the required version number for the tarball to be built so

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mv tint2 tint2-0.12

cd tint2-0.12

now we need to build an origional source tarball

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dh_make -p tint2-0.12 --createorig

this puts that compressed file in the next higher directory in the tree. 

it will ask what type of binary you want to build.  press i for indpendent and hit return twice

when it finishes, continue the build

now per the build instructions for the package

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mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../


i got an error asking for librsvg-2.0 so i then searched synaptic for the file

sudo synaptic

enter librsvg-2 into the search field and installed the file that matches that as well as it's -dev version

reran the

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../

with no errors.  if you get other errors just search synaptic, install the matching file and its -dev version, usually right below or above it in synaptic

then did

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make


now the build instructions ask us to sudo make install but instead, since we are building the independent binary, we will

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cd ..

dpkg-buildpackage -b

when that finishes

cd ..

sudo dpkg -i tint2-0.12_0.12-1_all.deb

and now you just need to restart tint2.  i vote for using the taskl manager, lxtask, and seacring for tint2 and killing that by right clicking over it and selecting kill and then running tint2 from the main menu->run command and typing tint2 in the gexec window

i havent tested the build yet in debian but on another distro i could edit tint2 with the command tint2conf and it should show in the applications under preferences or system