Bit of a noob question, but after having successfully compiled ksystemstats from source with a with a fix to the code and tested in the dev session in Neon user, how would I then “install” that compiled update over to my working non-dev, systemwide regular session?
I suspect this is non-trivial as I imagine all the deps will need to be “installed” as well. I do not want to live in my devel session as I am concerned updates will get confused (though it is way cool that I am working in a session I compiled from source myself).
I simply copied the modified plugin from my build folder to the system install folder after renaming the existing one .bak in case it caused any problems. Voila. Works.
Indeed. I have planned for that. Hopefully the next update will fix the problem anyway.
I have noticed that my hand rolled version of plasma has fixed a couple of other minor (but niggly) issues that persist in my installed Neon User session, so I have decided to live in the dev session as it just works better.
That being said, I have had to preserve a few of my changes (like SDDM scripts) as updates like to break them, so I have simply added the “.so” to the list of things to restore after an update (if any sddm devs are listening - please do not replace scripts without asking as it completely breaks my desktop ).
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