Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

horsemanoffaith · 2015-01-31 05:33:27

Thanks, Silkworm... worked like a charm. I use Pidgin all the time, and I love the indications that I get in Unity. It's nice to have them back!

plarke · 2015-02-01 18:44:50

What per-user scripts are run automatically on Unity under Arch?
It seems nothing in my home directory is, and I need to run setxkbmap on startup to switch the ctrl and caps lock keys.
Is there anything, or do I need to write a systemctl unit?

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-02 14:23:11

@Horsemanoffaith Glad it helped.

plarke wrote:

What per-user scripts are run automatically on Unity under Arch?
It seems nothing in my home directory is, and I need to run setxkbmap on startup to switch the ctrl and caps lock keys.
Is there anything, or do I need to write a systemctl unit?

I know Ubuntu had a Start Up Applications program that would set per user programs to launch on login. Failing that, it should autorun any .desktop files located in ~.config/autostart/.

plarke · 2015-02-02 23:47:50

Silkworm205 wrote:

I know Ubuntu had a Start Up Applications program that would set per user programs to launch on login. Failing that, it should autorun any .desktop files located in ~.config/autostart/.

Thanks! That Startup Applications program is in the AUR, called gnome-session-properties.

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-03 13:26:12

Thanks for the feedback! I've added some of the things we've discussed to the Wiki page.

mrbeard · 2015-02-05 00:39:25

Hi guys , so after my last -Syu Unity stops working first I was getting an error on the unity-scope-home .install i fixed this by downloading source from github and changeing "update-ca-certificates" to "trust extract-compat" per (https://www.archlinux.org/news/ca-certificates-update/) and now unity won't start, everything goes gravy till:

compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: session
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/user/.compiz/session/105bcb2707aa78c9f142309648226442700000024840003"

So after some googling I saw someone say open ccsm and enable Unity plugin, I did however when I do that I get

failed to load plugin unityshell

so...I dunno I'm going to keep messing with it if I find a solution before I hear back from you guys I'll post

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-05 15:11:45

mrbeard wrote:

Hi guys , so after my last -Syu Unity stops working first I was getting an error on the unity-scope-home .install i fixed this by downloading source from github and changeing "update-ca-certificates" to "trust extract-compat" per (https://www.archlinux.org/news/ca-certificates-update/) and now unity won't start, everything goes gravy till:
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: session
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/user/.compiz/session/105bcb2707aa78c9f142309648226442700000024840003"
So after some googling I saw someone say open ccsm and enable Unity plugin, I did however when I do that I get
failed to load plugin unityshell
so...I dunno I'm going to keep messing with it if I find a solution before I hear back from you guys I'll post

I'm having issues too. Unfortunately, It happened while I was migrating from the Proprietary to the Open Source ATI drivers, so I wasn't sure if I messed up there somehow.
When I log in, I get my wallpaper load up, and Nautilus is definitely there, managing the desktop. Swapping over to a TTY and running Unity does nothing, but compiz --replace at least loads some of the plugins.

Doing it this way though, CCSM shows a tick box next to the Unity plugin. Enabling that says it conflicts with the Gnome Compatibility plugin. Then Compiz crashes and it resets Unity to disabled anyway,
I'll keep tinkering and see what I come out with.

mrbeard · 2015-02-05 15:44:30

Silkworm205 wrote:

mrbeard wrote:
Hi guys , so after my last -Syu Unity stops working first I was getting an error on the unity-scope-home .install i fixed this by downloading source from github and changeing "update-ca-certificates" to "trust extract-compat" per (https://www.archlinux.org/news/ca-certificates-update/) and now unity won't start, everything goes gravy till:
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: session
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/user/.compiz/session/105bcb2707aa78c9f142309648226442700000024840003"
So after some googling I saw someone say open ccsm and enable Unity plugin, I did however when I do that I get
failed to load plugin unityshell
so...I dunno I'm going to keep messing with it if I find a solution before I hear back from you guys I'll post
I'm having issues too. Unfortunately, It happened while I was migrating from the Proprietary to the Open Source ATI drivers, so I wasn't sure if I messed up there somehow.
When I log in, I get my wallpaper load up, and Nautilus is definitely there, managing the desktop. Swapping over to a TTY and running Unity does nothing, but compiz --replace at least loads some of the plugins.
Doing it this way though, CCSM shows a tick box next to the Unity plugin. Enabling that says it conflicts with the Gnome Compatibility plugin. Then Compiz crashes and it resets Unity to disabled anyway,
I'll keep tinkering and see what I come out with.

ah glad to see I'm not the only one when you try to re-install Unity from the repo do you get a failure on building of the unity-scope-home as well?

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-05 16:35:40

mrbeard wrote:

Silkworm205 wrote:
mrbeard wrote:
Hi guys , so after my last -Syu Unity stops working first I was getting an error on the unity-scope-home .install i fixed this by downloading source from github and changeing "update-ca-certificates" to "trust extract-compat" per (https://www.archlinux.org/news/ca-certificates-update/) and now unity won't start, everything goes gravy till:

So after some googling I saw someone say open ccsm and enable Unity plugin, I did however when I do that I get

so...I dunno I'm going to keep messing with it if I find a solution before I hear back from you guys I'll post
I'm having issues too. Unfortunately, It happened while I was migrating from the Proprietary to the Open Source ATI drivers, so I wasn't sure if I messed up there somehow.
When I log in, I get my wallpaper load up, and Nautilus is definitely there, managing the desktop. Swapping over to a TTY and running Unity does nothing, but compiz --replace at least loads some of the plugins.
Doing it this way though, CCSM shows a tick box next to the Unity plugin. Enabling that says it conflicts with the Gnome Compatibility plugin. Then Compiz crashes and it resets Unity to disabled anyway,
I'll keep tinkering and see what I come out with.
ah glad to see I'm not the only one when you try to re-install Unity from the repo do you get a failure on building of the unity-scope-home as well?

I got no messages concerning build failures. No errors at all in fact, just restarted my PC and bam, no Unity. Rolling back packages doesn't seem to have had any effect.
EDIT: On closer inspection of the logs, I got the following; /tmp/alpm_TIaOXu/.INSTALL: line 2: update-ca-certificates: command not found and warning: directory ownership differs on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/filesystem: 102:0 package: 0:0
EDIT2: Using the testing Reponoted on Jenkins doesn't solve the issue.

Last edited by Silkworm205 (2015-02-05 17:13:10)

mrbeard · 2015-02-05 17:57:58

Silkworm205 wrote:

mrbeard wrote:
Silkworm205 wrote:
I'm having issues too. Unfortunately, It happened while I was migrating from the Proprietary to the Open Source ATI drivers, so I wasn't sure if I messed up there somehow.
When I log in, I get my wallpaper load up, and Nautilus is definitely there, managing the desktop. Swapping over to a TTY and running Unity does nothing, but compiz --replace at least loads some of the plugins.
Doing it this way though, CCSM shows a tick box next to the Unity plugin. Enabling that says it conflicts with the Gnome Compatibility plugin. Then Compiz crashes and it resets Unity to disabled anyway,
I'll keep tinkering and see what I come out with.
ah glad to see I'm not the only one when you try to re-install Unity from the repo do you get a failure on building of the unity-scope-home as well?
I got no messages concerning build failures. No errors at all in fact, just restarted my PC and bam, no Unity. Rolling back packages doesn't seem to have had any effect.
EDIT: On closer inspection of the logs, I got the following; /tmp/alpm_TIaOXu/.INSTALL: line 2: update-ca-certificates: command not found and warning: directory ownership differs on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/filesystem: 102:0 package: 0:0
EDIT2: Using the testing Reponoted on Jenkins doesn't solve the issue.

To fix the install follow how I did it:

Hi guys big_smile, so after my last -Syu Unity stops working first I was getting an error on the unity-scope-home .install i fixed this by downloading source from github and changeing "update-ca-certificates" to "trust extract-compat" per (https://www.archlinux.org/news/ca-certificates-update/) and now unity won't start, everything goes gravy till:

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-f … me.install

post_install() {
update-ca-certificates
}

needs to be changed to

post_install() {
trust extract-compat
}
post_upgrade() {
post_install
}
post_remove() {
post_install
}

then makepkg -i

zeppelinlg · 2015-02-05 19:20:07

same here

zeppelinlg · 2015-02-05 19:56:20

ldd /lib/libnux-graphics-4.0.so
	libGLEW.so.1.11 => not found
	libGLEWmx.so.1.11 => not found

I'll try to rebuild nux

djani · 2015-02-05 21:38:46

dito

i see onl curser after lightdm. i did a -Syua yesterday since then i can not use unity...

updated

virtualbox
libreoffice-fresh
dhcpcd
poppler
cups-filters
glew
lib32-wayland

before unity run as a charme but now:(

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-06 23:42:27

Righty-O, I've managed to get Unity working on my machine again, but it involved downgrading packages and completely resetting Unity.
First I cd'd to /var/cache/pacman/pkg, then ran

sudo pacman -U tzdata-2014j-1-any.pkg.tar.xz  bluez-5.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz bluez-libs-5.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libgpg-error-1.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz glew-1.11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz sqlite-3.8.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz clementine-1.2.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz poppler-0.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cups-filters-1.0.62-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-wayland-1.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-glew-1.11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libcacard-2.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libreoffice-fresh-4.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-demos-8.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz poppler-glib-0.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

(Of course, your versions may differ to my cached packages)
Next I logged into gnome shell and deleted the following, ~/.config/compiz-1 and ~/.config/unity, then opened dconf-editor and reset all compiz related settings.
Restarted lightDM, and then it works! Someone who knows what they're doing can probably offer a much simpler way to do this. Sadly all my settings were, expectedly, reset, so backing up as opposed to deletion would be advised.

mariusz84 · 2015-02-07 11:45:56

Silkworm205 wrote:

Righty-O, I've managed to get Unity working on my machine again, but it involved downgrading packages and completely resetting Unity.
First I cd'd to /var/cache/pacman/pkg, then ran
sudo pacman -U tzdata-2014j-1-any.pkg.tar.xz  bluez-5.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz bluez-libs-5.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libgpg-error-1.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz glew-1.11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz sqlite-3.8.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz clementine-1.2.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz poppler-0.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cups-filters-1.0.62-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-wayland-1.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-glew-1.11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libcacard-2.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libreoffice-fresh-4.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-demos-8.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz poppler-glib-0.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
(Of course, your versions may differ to my cached packages)
Next I logged into gnome shell and deleted the following, ~/.config/compiz-1 and ~/.config/unity, then opened dconf-editor and reset all compiz related settings.
Restarted lightDM, and then it works! Someone who knows what they're doing can probably offer a much simpler way to do this. Sadly all my settings were, expectedly, reset, so backing up as opposed to deletion would be advised.

Hello Everyone,

I had the same issue after upgrade. To solve it you don't have to reset your unity settings. Simply downgrade glew and lib32-glew and reenable unity plugin in ccsm. It helped me so probably it will also help you.

Regards,
Mariusz

Last edited by mariusz84 (2015-02-07 11:47:27)

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-07 13:21:59

mariusz84 wrote:

Silkworm205 wrote:
Righty-O, I've managed to get Unity working on my machine again, but it involved downgrading packages and completely resetting Unity.
First I cd'd to /var/cache/pacman/pkg, then ran
sudo pacman -U tzdata-2014j-1-any.pkg.tar.xz  bluez-5.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz bluez-libs-5.27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libgpg-error-1.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz glew-1.11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz sqlite-3.8.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz clementine-1.2.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz poppler-0.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cups-filters-1.0.62-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-wayland-1.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz lib32-glew-1.11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libcacard-2.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libreoffice-fresh-4.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz mesa-demos-8.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz poppler-glib-0.29.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
(Of course, your versions may differ to my cached packages)
Next I logged into gnome shell and deleted the following, ~/.config/compiz-1 and ~/.config/unity, then opened dconf-editor and reset all compiz related settings.
Restarted lightDM, and then it works! Someone who knows what they're doing can probably offer a much simpler way to do this. Sadly all my settings were, expectedly, reset, so backing up as opposed to deletion would be advised.
Hello Everyone,
I had the same issue after upgrade. To solve it you don't have to reset your unity settings. Simply downgrade glew and lib32-glew and reenable unity plugin in ccsm. It helped me so probably it will also help you.
Regards,
Mariusz

It was that simple all along huh? Well I feel daft. Thanks for sharing.

zeppelinlg · 2015-02-07 14:19:45

mariusz84 wrote:

I had the same issue after upgrade. To solve it you don't have to reset your unity settings. Simply downgrade glew and lib32-glew and reenable unity plugin in ccsm. It helped me so probably it will also help you.

Thanks a lot, it's working

chenxiaolong · 2015-02-07 19:33:55

@mrbeard @zeppelinlg: I've merged zeppelinlg's pull request and a new package is building now.

The nux rebuild (for glew 1.12) should have already hit the repos.

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-07 19:35:17

An update was released since my last post which seems to have fixed Unity's issues. Thanks everone.
EDIT: Chenxiaolong, you ninja. XD

Last edited by Silkworm205 (2015-02-07 19:35:56)

mrbeard · 2015-02-07 20:20:05

Thanks Chenxiaolong!!

horsemanoffaith · 2015-02-08 02:06:05

After my update today I had to re-enable the Unity plugin, but all is working now! Thanks Chen!!!!

horsemanoffaith · 2015-02-08 02:15:54

I am still having one issue: On my Unity greeter, the text box where I put my password in is missing. Any ideas?

I can still log-in, I just can't see what I'm doing.

Last edited by horsemanoffaith (2015-02-08 02:16:16)

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-08 19:10:47

horsemanoffaith wrote:

I am still having one issue: On my Unity greeter, the text box where I put my password in is missing. Any ideas?
I can still log-in, I just can't see what I'm doing.

Same here. Tried changing GTK themes and no luck.

plarke · 2015-02-09 02:17:38

anyone know how to take a screenshot? print screen key is a no go.

Silkworm205 · 2015-02-09 09:05:18

plarke wrote:

anyone know how to take a screenshot? print screen key is a no go.

There's a dedicated screenshot plugin in CCSM under the Extras category, or the Gnome Compatibility plugin provides a shortcut to use gnome-screenshot. Just install that and it should work.

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