[openbox] Skipping Windows in ALT-TAB Task List?

John Russell drjimmy42 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 11 22:17:13 EDT 2004


You really need to check out gentoo.  There is no
easier way to stay up to date with every package you
can think of.  And if it isn't there, its a small
shell script away.  

commence distro war....

John
--- Adam Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 16:48, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> > > It's not that they don't work in Debian, they're
> just not packaged for
> > > Debian.  They work fine with the standard method
> of downloading the
> > > tarball, unpack, configure, make, make install
> (into /usr/local), but
> > > then you don't get automatic upgrades and the
> files aren't being
> > > 'tracked' by the Debian packaging system.
> > Oh, poor little Adam has to download tarballs all
> on his own.
> 
> I don't mind downloading and building tarballs, but
> when you've got 3000
> packages installed on your machine it's nice to have
> a system that
> automatically upgrades them when new versions are
> released, rather than
> having to check all 3000 of them every week or so.
> 
> Or do you think we should all roll our own
> distributions?
> 
> Also, thousands of Debian users will never even know
> wmctrl exists
> unless it's in the distribution.
> -- 
> Adam Kessel
> http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
> 


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