On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 18:45 -0400, Jack wrote:
> Not sure what the problem is.  It worked fine for me in a plain  
> unpacked tarball - although I think I needed to use -p1. 

Never mind, it seems my first download of the patch was incomplete.  The
patch applies just fine, and it will be shipped as 2.4.10-2 in the next
upload.

> > Presuming you're running multiwindow, add this to your ~/.startxwinrc  
> > after your "eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`" line and before any  
> > regular applications.
> I start X with the windows shortcut provided by setup.exe, so I'll have  
> to dig into the files it actually uses.

That would be ~/.startxwinrc.

> Note however, that my preference is the behavior of balsa as built  
> "--without-gnome" which is to store the passwords in it's own config  
> file(s).  Unfortuantely, I know the ports build isn't likely to do  
> that, so unless I can figuere this out, I'll just build my own  
> version.

The Ports package will continue to use gnome-keyring.

> I'll also work with the balsa devels to see if I can get it  
> to fall back to it's own files if it doesn' find gnome-keyring.

Don't bother, it doesn't work like that.

> New question - if I wan't to keep my own version of a cygport package,  
> say just changing some configure parameters, what is the suggested  
> change to naming/numbering so I don't conflict with the official  
> package?

As a standalone program, just don't install the Ports package, instead
build from the .cygport file and install into your system (don't forget
to run the postinstall scripts).


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports



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