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FS#11719 - [devilspie 0.22-1] devilspie does not use /etc/devilspie as the config dir but /usr/etc/devilspie

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Monday, 13 October 2008, 13:23 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 27 December 2008, 14:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

one can see by running devilspie -d that it tries to load /usr/etc/devilspie that does not exist

one need to use --sysconfdir=/etc with configure to correct this



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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 14:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Monday, 13 October 2008, 17:13 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Community Packages → Arch Linux)
devilspie is in [extra].
moved to right bug project
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Friday, 17 October 2008, 10:47 GMT
and may be add some explanation as comment in example.ds would help:

; this statement below allow you to see the window that devilspie can control and help you create your own rules.
; you can comment it by adding a semi-colon (;) at the start of the line
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Thursday, 11 December 2008, 07:07 GMT
Status: not implemented. Version 0.22-1 in extra, no package in testing.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 18:56 GMT
Please test 0.22-2, compiled with the sysconfdir set to /etc
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 19:02 GMT
Tested 0.22-2 on i686, works for me. (Correct behaviour now:

[glenn@polaris ~]$ pacman -Q devilspie
devilspie 0.22-2
[glenn@polaris ~]$ devilspie -d
Devil's Pie 0.22 starting...
Loading /etc/devilspie
Loading /etc/devilspie/example.ds
Loading /home/glenn/.devilspie
/home/glenn/.devilspie doesn't exist
1 s-expressions loaded.
)

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