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[Marco Trevisan <marco.trevisan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 06/07/2015 19:25, Stephen M. Webb ha scritto:
> On 15-07-06 01:11 PM, Mohsen Ibrahim wrote:
>> Hi, I recently managed to download and install unity 7 from source on my Ubuntu 15.04.
>> I followed the instructions here https://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/development/unity/.
> 
> Splendid.
> 
>> Now I want to contribute to unity project, but before that I need to know if my environment is setup correctly, so as a
>> start I tried to modify the string that appears in unity launcher by editing the file launcher/BFBLauncherIcon.cpp,
>> after that I run make && make install and logged in to my system using my user name and password but nothing changed in
>> the launcher!!
> 
> It's possible you did not set the installation prefix properly, resulting in your Unity Compiz plugin not getting
> installed where Compiz will look for it.  Try adding -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr to your CMake invocation before
> running Make.


Another possibility is to use the cmake option
 -DCOMPIZ_PLUGIN_INSTALL_TYPE=local

In this way the unity libunityshell.so plugin will be installed in your
~/.compiz-1/plugins/ folder, without overwriting the system one.


Happy hacking!

Cheers