On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 07:34 -0600, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:25 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > > Were you actually using JHBuild to run integrated system > > components > > (gnome-shell, gnome-session)? If so, how? I was not aware that > > that > > was even possible nowadays. > > > > When developing these components, > > Sorry, trying again.... > > When developing components like gnome-shell and gnome-session, I've > found myself working in a VM and installing directly into /usr/bin. > It's the only way I'm aware of that works. (You can try /usr/local, > but > then you have to hack executable paths in several projects....) > > Since it was already not possible to run these components with > JHBuild,
It was. You'd build close to the whole desktop, and end up with a jhbuild session file you'd link in to a system directory (once). From then on, you'd have a "jhbuild session" available as an option in gdm. > this does not seem like a regression to me. Tristan mentioned the > future goal is to create a VM image, but one step at a time. > > If you are aware of some way that you can successfully run gnome- > shell > or gnome-session or gdm or similar components using JHBuild, I would > love to know! gnome-shell used to be possible using 'jhbuild build > gnome-shell' and 'jhbuild run gnome-shell -r', but the last time > that > worked for me was many years ago. "When you still used X11". That worked when the shell wasn't also the display server. > Even trying different combinations of > undocumented args like --nested and --wayland, I've yet to see it > work > in recent times. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
