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[Pascal Giard <evilynux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
<boulabiar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
> Thanks for your interest in Ginn.
> I am moving the discussion to the multi-touch group.
> The package you have found in that site is old and may not differentiate
> between windows.
> Try with the last package in launchpad.
> https://launchpad.net/ginn
> I am using libbamf for selecting windows.
> https://launchpad.net/bamf
> libbamf can be used out of unity, I use it in a standard gnome environment.
> It is created after having problems with an older application matching
> library which used matching by IDs and names.
>  Neil is one of the main creator of libbamf and can tell you more about
> problems encountered with the old lib and how to help you get it into
> Debian.

Hi guys/list,
 as mentioned on IRC yesterday evening, building libbamf in Debian
unstable is currently a lot of pain because of its dependencies.

I've expressed my intention of modifying ginn to use libX11 instead.
And I've done so. However, it still needs to be cleaned up before I
share it (with someone else than Mohamed).

I realize my version may not be very useful to Ubuntu users, but it
may very well be for Debian adventurers not willing to wait for
libbamf's dependencies or not willing to patch/build them themselves.

On a final note, I was wondering why ginn was not using libX11 in the
first place.
Is it "only" because some applications are not "good citizens" and do
not set their WMCLASS property correctly or there is something else?

Cheers,

-Pascal
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