Re: running ion3 from home directory

"Harri Haataja" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/05/07, Nick Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Susana wrote:
> >     I would like to know whether it is possible, and also whether it is
> >     relatively simple, to install ion3 without root access, that is
> >     whether it is possible to run it from one home's directory.
> >
> >     I have installed it at home a couple of days ago and I am extremely
> >     happy with depending less on a mouse, and with the freedom from the
> >     complexities of gnome, therefore I would also like to use it at work
> >     where I have no root access.

> I managed this fine a couple of years ago on my University Solaris
> account. It was just a case of the standard ./configure and make, IIRC.

I have done likewise. Apart from solaris compiler fighting, the home
directory install went perfectly the normal and expected way. I  also
installed lua there first. After a bit of rtfm, now when I log into a
ray (using "CDE" as the desktop selection), ion comes up. Joy.

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