GNOME Do Plugins on Fedora 11

June 24th, 2009

Part of my hesitation in moving away from FVWM and over to GNOME was having to give up a lot of my custom keyboard commands (my goal in life is to pretty much never use a mouse). GNOME Do helped to bridge much of that gap. After a few days, it became a pretty much essential part of my UI.

Problem is, although Fedora 11 brought a newer version of Do (0.8.1.3), the Do plugins aren’t yet in the Fedora 11 repositories. That doesn’t leave Do crippled, but I was missing some of the added functionality I had grown accustomed to.

I took some time at lunch to build Do and its plugins locally. It took a bit of effort since the installation instructions were geared towards Ubuntu, but I updated the Do wiki with notes specific to building on Fedora. Anyone who is missing the added features of the plugins can check out the build instructions over at the GNOME Do wiki to get the plugins installed for full Do awesomeness.

Posted by Jay
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5 Responses to “GNOME Do Plugins on Fedora 11”


  1. Paul
    June 24th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489014 for the review request.

    It should be reviewed after the 0.8.2 release, which is supposed to happen end of this week.


  2. Jay
    June 24th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Oh nice, thanks for the heads up. :)


  3. twilightomni
    June 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    Thanks for that tip on the wiki! I can’t wait to try it out, the configure step was driving me bonkers.

    However, I encounter an error about something called “Wink” (can’t recall if it was part of do.platform or not, it was a few weeks ago). I hope that your pkg_config hint fixes that. Perhaps I have deeper problems.


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  5. Carl van Tonder
    June 29th, 2009 at 7:23 am

    I installed F11 a couple of days ago on my desktop, and was halfway to tapping ‘y’ at the yum prompt to install gnome-do when I noticed that it was going to pull in 30MB of dependencies. It’s such a shame that one of my favourite applications has such a wide range of dependent libraries, although given what the application does it’s hard to imagine why. Does anyone know how to make gnome-launch-box respond to keyboard shortcuts? :D