The Fedora packages of rss-glx contain a patched tarball without the matrixview hack. To generate this patched tarball from upstream sources, simply run: sh ./rss-glx-rm-matrixview.sh <orig_tarball> <diff_file> <new_tarball> with e.g.: orig_tarball: rss-glx_0.8.1.tar.bz2 diff_file: rss-glx-0.8.1-0.8.1.p.diff new_tarball: rss-glx-0.8.1.p.tar.bz2