Help with patching twinview

[Greg]

I really have no idea how to patch things, as I have never done it before. I would like to take the patch found here and patch twinview with it. I read the man page on the patch command but that didn't really help me.

Thanks

 

[horndude]

link not working

but usually its just:
patch <original file> <patchfile>

all it does is run diff on it and only changes the original file based on whats different tween it and the patch

to do a directory I think you need to use the -p"#" option if you want to exclude parts of the directory tree involved

its been awhile since Ive used it, might try googling for kernel pacthing, thats the last thing I used it for and as I recall the command was listed too, that way you get an example

 

[Greg]

Ah, alright. The only problem is I don't know which file/directory I am supposed to patch.

I will Google around some more, but hopefully this problem will be fixed with the next version of Beryl (it is not actually twinview itself that is causing this problem).

Thanks for the tips