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activity-log-manager order is fixed. A build log would be nice when you feel a little bit more awake
Seems like there was more wrong with my Arch Installation than I thought. I just spent all day recompiling on a fresh install of Arch and I got no errors. Same thing with the -j5 option on some packages, they all worked. So no complaints.
Oh yeah, it might not be very scientific, but "-j8" has always seemed to be faster on my i7 laptop
Yea, I don't know why I didn't use more first time around. I used -j9 second time and it worked beautifully.
After a day's use I've not seen any real problems on this so all in all good build!!! There are a few annoyances like sometimes minimized winodws won't redraw or my Dash and such disappears for a few seconds. Nothing really that bad though. I don't really understand all the hate towards Unity. It really is a great desktop, and that's coming from someone who has used Openbox for the past 2 years. The only things I didn't install were all the QT bindings (I know my laptop is good enough to run Unity3D so I didn't need any of the Unity2D dependencies) and the scroll bars. I like my scroll bars just the way they are. Hopefully the HUD remains optional...That is the one thing I am really iffy about. All the programs that I use I already know the shortcuts to or know the location of the option in the menu. So that would change my workflow. Great work chenxiaolong!!!
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Yeah sorry I don't actually mention virtualbox in the post. Just that I am getting the same libgnome-control-center error. I had to compile that and gnome-settings-daemon first before activity-log-manager. And I had the same problem again last night.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1061435
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Yeah sorry I don't actually mention virtualbox in the post. Just that I am getting the same libgnome-control-center error. I had to compile that and gnome-settings-daemon first before activity-log-manager. And I had the same problem again last night.
Hmm...could you post the package list of gnome-control-center-ubuntu? The libgnome-control-center library is part of the Ubuntu version of gnome-control-center.
pacman -Ql gnome-control-center-ubuntu
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chenxiaolong wrote:activity-log-manager order is fixed. A build log would be nice when you feel a little bit more awake
Seems like there was more wrong with my Arch Installation than I thought. I just spent all day recompiling on a fresh install of Arch and I got no errors. Same thing with the -j5 option on some packages, they all worked. So no complaints.
Awesome!
chenxiaolong wrote:Oh yeah, it might not be very scientific, but "-j8" has always seemed to be faster on my i7 laptop
Yea, I don't know why I didn't use more first time around. I used -j9 second time and it worked beautifully.
After a day's use I've not seen any real problems on this so all in all good build!!! There are a few annoyances like sometimes minimized winodws won't redraw or my Dash and such disappears for a few seconds. Nothing really that bad though. I don't really understand all the hate towards Unity. It really is a great desktop, and that's coming from someone who has used Openbox for the past 2 years. The only things I didn't install were all the QT bindings (I know my laptop is good enough to run Unity3D so I didn't need any of the Unity2D dependencies) and the scroll bars. I like my scroll bars just the way they are. Hopefully the HUD remains optional...That is the one thing I am really iffy about. All the programs that I use I already know the shortcuts to or know the location of the option in the menu. So that would change my workflow. Great work chenxiaolong!!!
I'm glad you like Unity-for-Arch
I've also been having a problem with the panel always being on top of full screen programs. I'm sure it will be fixed soon though I hope the HUD remains optional too with a setting to completely disable it. It's quite annoying how it pops up whenever I use a shortcut that contains Alt. I don't understand all the hate towards Unity either. I see a lot of people complain that it's a "tablet UI", but to me, it can be controlled with a keyboard better than any other DE. Plus, it integrates well with everything
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Here is the pacman output http://pastie.org/3884720
I've also been having a problem with the panel always being on top of full screen programs. I'm sure it will be fixed soon though I hope the HUD remains optional too with a setting to completely disable it. It's quite annoying how it pops up whenever I use a shortcut that contains Alt. I don't understand all the hate towards Unity either. I see a lot of people complain that it's a "tablet UI", but to me, it can be controlled with a keyboard better than any other DE. Plus, it integrates well with everything
You can change the hud keyboard shortcut in keyboard settings. I made it alt+win because I use alt with the right and left arrow a lot in chromium. Anyways, shuttleworth has said HUD would be much better by 12.10. Hopefully this means mouse-friendly
Edit: I was not clear in my post above sorry. activity-log-manager would NOT compile without gnome-control-center-ubuntu and gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu being installed FIRST.
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Here is the pacman output http://pastie.org/3884720
chenxiaolong wrote:I've also been having a problem with the panel always being on top of full screen programs. I'm sure it will be fixed soon though I hope the HUD remains optional too with a setting to completely disable it. It's quite annoying how it pops up whenever I use a shortcut that contains Alt. I don't understand all the hate towards Unity either. I see a lot of people complain that it's a "tablet UI", but to me, it can be controlled with a keyboard better than any other DE. Plus, it integrates well with everything
You can change the hud keyboard shortcut in keyboard settings. I made it alt+win because I use alt with the right and left arrow a lot in chromium. Anyways, shuttleworth has said HUD would be much better by 12.10. Hopefully this means mouse-friendly
Edit: I was not clear in my post above sorry. activity-log-manager would NOT compile without gnome-control-center-ubuntu and gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu being installed FIRST.
That's exactly what I use alt for too I didn't know that the keyboard shortcut could be changed. Thanks for telling me!
As for the activity-log-manager issue, I have moved it below gnome-control-center-ubuntu in the README and added gnome-control-center-ubuntu to the dependencies
EDIT: Is there still an issue with indicator-datetime?
Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-05-09 15:45:24)
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EDIT: Is there still an issue with indicator-datetime?
No, it compiles fine.
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Hi,
great work, really
Please add python-distutils-extra as dependency for unity-lens-video.
thanks
Kirurgs
Last edited by Kirurgs (2012-05-09 20:32:11)
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Hi,
great work, really
Please add python-distutils-extra as dependency for unity-lens-video.thanks
Kirurgs
Done
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Hey, I'm back. After using Ubuntu 12.04 for a month or so I'm back to Arch and the first thing I did was install unity again and I noticed that now there are less packages and I'm loving it as always.
Now I have this doubt, Is it posible to do a minimal gnome install to have only unity? What packages should be installed?
Anyways, still surprises me that unity runs more smooth in Arch than in Ubuntu itself.
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Hey, I'm back. After using Ubuntu 12.04 for a month or so I'm back to Arch and the first thing I did was install unity again and I noticed that now there are less packages and I'm loving it as always.
Now I have this doubt, Is it posible to do a minimal gnome install to have only unity? What packages should be installed?
Anyways, still surprises me that unity runs more smooth in Arch than in Ubuntu itself.
Welcome back! A lot of packages now work with the upstream versions and some packages have been added to the repositories. I can't wait until the day where this project has 0 packages
I'm not sure about sure about the minimal install, but this is what I would choose:
(when running "pacman -S gnome")
gnome-control-center
gnome-desktop
gnome-icon-theme
gnome-keyring
gnome-screensaver
gnome-session
gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-terminal
gnome-themes-standard
nautilus
notification-daemon
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I'm getting an error when I try to compile unity. Here's the log.
http://codepad.org/anirRnar
Also I'm getting this when I try to run What_can_I_update.py
[jesse@myhost Unity-for-Arch]$ python3 What_can_I_update\?.py
./PKGBUILD: line 8: error: command not found
./PKGBUILD: line 9: msg: command not found
./PKGBUILD: line 13: msg: command not found
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I'm getting an error when I try to compile unity. Here's the log.
http://codepad.org/anirRnarAlso I'm getting this when I try to run What_can_I_update.py
[jesse@myhost Unity-for-Arch]$ python3 What_can_I_update\?.py ./PKGBUILD: line 8: error: command not found ./PKGBUILD: line 9: msg: command not found ./PKGBUILD: line 13: msg: command not found
Could you try removing the pkg/ and src/ directories and then recompiling? From the build logs, it seems that CMake is detecting a previous build.
As for the Update script issue, sorry about that. I'll fix it as soon as I can
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sollidsnake wrote:I'm getting an error when I try to compile unity. Here's the log.
http://codepad.org/anirRnarAlso I'm getting this when I try to run What_can_I_update.py
[jesse@myhost Unity-for-Arch]$ python3 What_can_I_update\?.py ./PKGBUILD: line 8: error: command not found ./PKGBUILD: line 9: msg: command not found ./PKGBUILD: line 13: msg: command not found
Could you try removing the pkg/ and src/ directories and then recompiling? From the build logs, it seems that CMake is detecting a previous build.
As for the Update script issue, sorry about that. I'll fix it as soon as I can
Thank you so much! Removing those folders did it.
Unity is running perfectly. I'm just having a issue with the themes. Adwaiata looks just fine, but when I change to another theme the contrast doesn't look normal. Here is some screenshots:
Adwaiata theme
http://postimage.org/image/pdubtnnkr/
Mint theme (also happens with any other theme)
http://postimage.org/image/4fsr9bd3v/
Am I the only one having this issue? Does anyone have any idea?
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Thank you so much! Removing those folders did it.
Unity is running perfectly. I'm just having a issue with the themes. Adwaiata looks just fine, but when I change to another theme the contrast doesn't look normal. Here is some screenshots:Adwaiata theme
http://postimage.org/image/pdubtnnkr/Mint theme (also happens with any other theme)
http://postimage.org/image/4fsr9bd3v/Am I the only one having this issue? Does anyone have any idea?
You're welcome!
It seems that the themes that are broken haven't been updated for GNOME 3.4 yet. For example, if you use the Mint theme, and then try to run a GTK 3 program from the terminal, like "gnome-control-center", you will see a lot of:
...
Theme parsing error: unity.css:8:16: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
...
If you use a GNOME 3.4 theme, like Adwaita, Zukini, or Holo, that doesn't happen. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon
By the way, the update script should work now
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Hi, I finished compiling and installing Unity from your git repository, Unity runs as expected, except that the gtk theme isn't applied (it's the ugly default one with square edges...). and when I try to change the theme via the menu nothing happens.
I thought this has something to do with gnome-settings-daemon, so I tried to check if it's running
~ $ killall gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon: no process found
so it isn't running, and when I tried to run it I get this
~ $ gnome-settings-daemon
(gnome-settings-daemon:4544): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output
[1336842170,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
(gnome-settings-daemon:4544): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to set the keyboard layouts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method `SetXKeyboardLayouts'
Segmentation fault
Do you have any idea what may be causing this? thanks
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Hi, I finished compiling and installing Unity from your git repository, Unity runs as expected, except that the gtk theme isn't applied (it's the ugly default one with square edges...). and when I try to change the theme via the menu nothing happens.
I thought this has something to do with gnome-settings-daemon, so I tried to check if it's running
~ $ killall gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon: no process found
so it isn't running, and when I tried to run it I get this
~ $ gnome-settings-daemon (gnome-settings-daemon:4544): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output [1336842170,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application (gnome-settings-daemon:4544): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to set the keyboard layouts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method `SetXKeyboardLayouts' Segmentation fault
Do you have any idea what may be causing this? thanks
Wow, I've never seen gnome-settings-daemon crash before. Are you able to log in to a regular GNOME session? If not, could you see if the regular gnome-settings-daemon works? You might have to ignore dependencies with:
pacman -Sdd gnome-settings-daemon
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Wow, I've never seen gnome-settings-daemon crash before. Are you able to log in to a regular GNOME session? If not, could you see if the regular gnome-settings-daemon works? You might have to ignore dependencies with:
pacman -Sdd gnome-settings-daemon
thanks for your quick answer, I'm able to log to regular gnome session, but the same problem stays, gnome-settings-daemon is not running.
I tried to install regular gnome-sesstion-daemon as you suggested, everything seems to work fine now. any logical explanation ?
another unrelated problem i noticed, is that the menu bar on applications, nautilus for example, appears twice, once on the top of nautilus and a second time on the global menu, how do I keep just the one on the global menu?
Edit :
this only happens with gtk3 applications, gtk2 and qt application don't have this problem. any idea how to make gtk3 apps behave as expected?
http://ompldr.org/vZHB5Nw
thanks again for your answer, and for this great work on unity.
Last edited by saad (2012-05-12 19:27:00)
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thanks for your quick answer, I'm able to log to regular gnome session, but the same problem stays, gnome-settings-daemon is not running.
I tried to install regular gnome-sesstion-daemon as you suggested, everything seems to work fine now. any logical explanation ?
Since you mentioned that the regular gnome-session-daemon works, I looked at the Arch Linux PKGBUILD, and sure enough, Arch Linux had a few patches that fixes some bugs. I've just pushed a change that applies the same patches. Would you mind running "git pull" and then compiling gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu again?
another unrelated problem i noticed, is that the menu bar on applications, nautilus for example, appears twice, once on the top of nautilus and a second time on the global menu, how do I keep just the one on the global menu?
Edit :
this only happens with gtk3 applications, gtk2 and qt application don't have this problem. any idea how to make gtk3 apps behave as expected?
http://ompldr.org/vZHB5Nw
I'm guessing this is due to the appmenu-gtk package. appmenu-gtk is actually a split package, which creates appmenu-gtk2-<version>.pkg.tar.xz and appmenu-gtk3-<version>.pkg.tar.xz. Could you check to see if you have the gtk3 version installed?
thanks again for your answer, and for this great work on unity.
You're welcome! I hope to get everything sorted out for you so you can enjoy Unity
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Since you mentioned that the regular gnome-session-daemon works, I looked at the Arch Linux PKGBUILD, and sure enough, Arch Linux had a few patches that fixes some bugs. I've just pushed a change that applies the same patches. Would you mind running "git pull" and then compiling gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu again?
unfortunatly it doesn't change much, gnome-settings-daemon (ubuntu's) still crashes, why arch's one works without problems, I have no idea why.
I'm guessing this is due to the appmenu-gtk package. appmenu-gtk is actually a split package, which creates appmenu-gtk2-<version>.pkg.tar.xz and appmenu-gtk3-<version>.pkg.tar.xz. Could you check to see if you have the gtk3 version installed?
Actually I have already checked that and appmenu-gtk3 is installed, any other suggestions? thanks
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chenxiaolong wrote:Since you mentioned that the regular gnome-session-daemon works, I looked at the Arch Linux PKGBUILD, and sure enough, Arch Linux had a few patches that fixes some bugs. I've just pushed a change that applies the same patches. Would you mind running "git pull" and then compiling gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu again?
unfortunatly it doesn't change much, gnome-settings-daemon (ubuntu's) still crashes, why arch's one works without problems, I have no idea why.
chenxiaolong wrote:I'm guessing this is due to the appmenu-gtk package. appmenu-gtk is actually a split package, which creates appmenu-gtk2-<version>.pkg.tar.xz and appmenu-gtk3-<version>.pkg.tar.xz. Could you check to see if you have the gtk3 version installed?
Actually I have already checked that and appmenu-gtk3 is installed, any other suggestions? thanks
Darn. Could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file and the terminal output when running any affected GTK 3 program?
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Darn. Could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file and the terminal output when running any affected GTK 3 program?
running a gtk3 program from the terminal doesn't give any errors, here's my .xsession-errors file (it's the same with gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu)
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:saad being added to access control list
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session --session=ubuntu
gnome-session[4200]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/saad/.config/autostart/xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Name'
gnome-session[4200]: WARNING: could not read /home/saad/.config/autostart/xfce4-settings-helper-autostart.desktop
gnome-session[4200]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/saad/.config/autostart/xfce4-tips-autostart.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Name'
gnome-session[4200]: WARNING: could not read /home/saad/.config/autostart/xfce4-tips-autostart.desktop
gnome-session[4200]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/saad/.config/autostart/xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop: Key file does not have key 'Name'
gnome-session[4200]: WARNING: could not read /home/saad/.config/autostart/xfconf-migration-4.6.desktop
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel/ssh
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel/gpg:0:1
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel/ssh
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/saad/.cache/keyring-DCLMel/gpg:0:1
(gnome-settings-daemon:4238): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output
(gnome-settings-daemon:4238): color-plugin-WARNING **: unable to get EDID for xrandr-default: unable to get EDID for output
(gnome-settings-daemon:4238): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to reset xrandr-default gamma tables: gamma size is zero
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...yes
[LOG]: Moving Internal Files
[LOG]: Copying subdirectory from /home/saad/.compiz/session to /home/saad/.compiz-1/session
[LOG]: Copied file /home/saad/.compiz/session/107bafee3e156d257f133687040011440900000029890029 to /home/saad/.compiz-1/session/107bafee3e156d257f133687040011440900000029890029
[LOG]: Successfully moved internal files
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Initializing core options...done
Initializing composite options...done
Initializing opengl options...done
Initializing decor options...done
Initializing vpswitch options...done
Initializing snap options...done
Initializing mousepoll options...done
Initializing resize options...done
Initializing place options...done
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
Initializing move options...done
Initializing wall options...done
** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
Initializing grid options...done
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/saad/.compiz/session/10cf2988366cc96522133687257118848700000042000029"
Initializing session options...done
Initializing gnomecompat options...done
Initializing animation options...done
Initializing fade options...done
Initializing unitymtgrabhandles options...done
Initializing workarounds options...done
Initializing scale options...done
compiz (expo) - Warn: failed to bind image to texture
Initializing expo options...done
Initializing ezoom options...done
(compiz:4258): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed
Initializing unityshell options...done
ERROR 2012-05-13 02:29:36 unity.glib-gobject <unknown>:0 g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Setting Update "main_menu_key"
Setting Update "run_key"
Setting Update "icon_size"
which: no kwin in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/java6/bin:/opt/java6/db/bin:/opt/java6/jre/bin:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
Starting gtk-window-decorator
** Message: moving back from GtkStatusIcon to indicator
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:41 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application829906520
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:43 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:283 Calling method "InfoRequest" on object path: "/net/launchpad/lens/video" failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `com.canonical.Unity.Lens' on object at path /net/launchpad/lens/video
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:43 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:283 Calling method "SetViewType" on object path: "/net/launchpad/lens/video" failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `com.canonical.Unity.Lens' on object at path /net/launchpad/lens/video
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:50 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application1642573751
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:50 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application1642573751
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:51 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application1642573751
** (zeitgeist-datahub:4528): WARNING **: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:224: Unable to get name "org.gnome.zeitgeist.datahub" on the bus!
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:52 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application311805604
WARN 2012-05-13 02:29:52 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application311805604
Thanks again for your help!
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chenxiaolong wrote:Darn. Could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file and the terminal output when running any affected GTK 3 program?
running a gtk3 program from the terminal doesn't give any errors, here's my .xsession-errors file (it's the same with gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu)
~/.xsession-errors log
Thanks again for your help!
Unfortunately, you system doesn't seem to be giving any useful error messages Could you provide the list of packages you installed?
pacman -Q > installed_packages.txt
At this point, I can only compare to see what's different between your system and mine.
EDIT: If you have the time, could you see if there's still a problem if you create a new user?
EDIT2: I can now reproduce the GTK 3 menu problem. I'll see what I can do to fix it.
Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-05-14 16:00:50)
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https://gist.github.com/2694780
unity autobuilder based on chenxiaolong's gits with (auto)updater, yeah!
Use it at your own risk
Script is quick-and-dirty, fixes are welcome
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Is there a repo with compiled packages? ayatana repo seems to be dated.
/usr/bin/drinking
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