Re: Upgrade report, 1.7.111 -> 1.7.161

Ethan (allanon@crystaltokyo.com)
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:23:17 -0800 (PST)



On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Mikko Hänninen wrote:

> Here's a report of upgrading from 1.7.111 -> 1.7.161.

Thanks again.

> Ok, got AS version 1.7.142, patched up to 1.7.161 (with some problems,
> patch exited with "hunk out of order" error? -- it didn't say that when
> I did the patches each separately though).  Compiled, installed.
> Only problem I ran into was that my background image failed to load.
> Not really a problem, but I also ended up having the AS banner in the
> middle of my first aterm's background (which is transparent)!  It looked
> kind of cool at first, but I wanted to get rid of soon enough. :-)

Make sure you're using asetroot to set your background.  If you want to 
change backgrounds via a script, here's a way to accomplish the task:

ascommand.pl 'Background "" image.jpg'

... be aware that the desktop will be reset whenever you change desktops 
if asetroot is running resident (ie, not with the -l option).

> So no major problems at all or anything, after using this new version
> for about 30 mins now. :-)  Anyway, I hope this report is of some use
> to someone...

Yup, I'm also interested in problems people have during the upgrade.

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