Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-13 04:14:27

b9anders, full repo is just about 114M, something like KDE version upgrade
I agree that package version bump is a good solution, but I don't have time to do this, repo is rebuilding automatically by script when needed, another problem is that I want full compatibility with original PKGBUILDs. Maybe chenxiaolong will do this in PKGBUILDs, then it will be updated in repo. But, another one problem is Arch Linux release model - it's rolling, so periodically we would have binary incompatibility with Arch repo packages, if unity repo will not be completely rebuilt with fresh Arch environment.

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-08-13 04:34:03)

qiuwei · 2012-08-13 12:48:00

oi_wtf wrote:

this PKGBUILD for liferea 1.8.7 with indicator support could be added to Unity-for-Arch-Extra, since the package in AUR is quite outdated:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/76078202/lifere … ILD.tar.xz
Looks like this: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1988 … icator.png

hi, @oi_wtf, how do you get the pidgin work with the message indicator?
Here if I enable pidgin in the systray, then it would occur independently out of the message indicator instead of under message indicator.

as this:
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/208/pidgino.png

Last edited by qiuwei (2012-08-13 14:06:54)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-13 16:22:51

I created a file for pidgin in /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ but that only adds the entry, no other functions like showing unread messages or things like that. I wanted to look into that deeper, when I had the time to do so.
If I get pidgin working, I'll post about it. Maybe it's as simple as with liferea, which has built-in indicator support, one only needs to enable it when compiling.

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-08-13 16:31:35)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-13 20:05:38

Got something...
Ubuntu patched indicator support into the "pidgin-libnotify" package, so you'd need the ubuntu version of that...
I've created a PKGBUILD: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76078202/pidgi … ILD.tar.xz
Then, if you want the applet-icon gone, you just have to add a pidgin entry for the messages indicator, like this:

mkdir -p /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications
echo "/usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop" > /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/pidgin

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-08-13 20:08:46)

qiuwei · 2012-08-13 20:57:49

oi_wtf wrote:

Got something...
Ubuntu patched indicator support into the "pidgin-libnotify" package, so you'd need the ubuntu version of that...
I've created a PKGBUILD: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76078202/pidgi … ILD.tar.xz
Then, if you want the applet-icon gone, you just have to add a pidgin entry for the messages indicator, like this:
mkdir -p /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications
echo "/usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop" > /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/pidgin

Cool, it worked perfectly here! Thanks for your work. It really requires a lot of work to make unity work perfectly on archlinux.

oi_wtf · 2012-08-13 21:02:33

Well, I'd probably be bored to death if I hadn't anything to tweak, code or something like that

//EDIT: And in case anyone wants to ask, how I got Thunderbird into the messaging menu,
it's an add-on shipped with Ubuntus Thunderbird, just copy it from Ubuntus package or get the sources here: lp or lp
Oh, and create /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/thunderbird of course.
"Compose New Mail" and "Contacts" are defined in thunderbird.desktop

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-08-13 21:34:30)

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-15 04:11:50

Unity 6.2 is released!
chenxiaolong, will it be available in your PLGBUILDs?

UPDATE. Hmm... what a silence Seems that in Unity 6.2 was updated just 7 packages, so I've updated PKGBUILDs and repo.
Packages are: nux, libunity, unity-lens-applications, unity-lens-files, unity-lens-music, unity-lens-video and unity. And I have some good news: gcc 4.6 is no more needed for building.
So far so good, it's working on my x86_64, and have no problems... If I've missed something for update, please tell packages names

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-08-15 15:25:24)

quiro91 · 2012-08-16 22:56:34

Installed, everything works but the clock, it just displays "time" in the top right corner, what am I suppose to solve this? (yes, I installed indicator-datatime)

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-17 05:36:35

You need /etc/timezone file containing your actual timezone, like Europe/Kiev

quiro91 · 2012-08-17 09:07:49

It works like charm, thanks man

pekmop1024 wrote:

You need /etc/timezone file containing your actual timezone, like Europe/Kiev

Reded · 2012-08-19 23:00:30

Hey guys, just trying to get this to work on my arch install. I added the repo and did the command to install it all. When I log in, I get a background screen with an unmoving mouse and nothing else. Anything I can do to fix? Thanks!

quiro91 · 2012-08-20 14:32:55

I got a error while compiling nux after the latest update; configure.log reports this error

configure:3529: /home/lorenzo/Unity-for-Arch/nux/src/usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6 -V >&5
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: error: unrecognized option '-V'
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

any ideas?

Last edited by quiro91 (2012-08-20 14:33:43)

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:18:50

oi_wtf wrote:

this PKGBUILD for liferea 1.8.7 with indicator support could be added to Unity-for-Arch-Extra, since the package in AUR is quite outdated:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/76078202/lifere … ILD.tar.xz
Looks like this: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1988 … icator.png

I will do that right now

By the way, what theme are you using? It looks nice!

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:20:07

pekmop1024 wrote:

b9anders, full repo is just about 114M, something like KDE version upgrade
I agree that package version bump is a good solution, but I don't have time to do this, repo is rebuilding automatically by script when needed, another problem is that I want full compatibility with original PKGBUILDs. Maybe chenxiaolong will do this in PKGBUILDs, then it will be updated in repo. But, another one problem is Arch Linux release model - it's rolling, so periodically we would have binary incompatibility with Arch repo packages, if unity repo will not be completely rebuilt with fresh Arch environment.

From now on, I'll remember to update the release numbers, so it will be easier for you to maintain the repo

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:21:37

oi_wtf wrote:

Got something...
Ubuntu patched indicator support into the "pidgin-libnotify" package, so you'd need the ubuntu version of that...
I've created a PKGBUILD: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76078202/pidgi … ILD.tar.xz
Then, if you want the applet-icon gone, you just have to add a pidgin entry for the messages indicator, like this:
mkdir -p /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications
echo "/usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop" > /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/pidgin

Would you mind that I add this to Unity-for-Arch-Extra?

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:23:11

oi_wtf wrote:

Well, I'd probably be bored to death if I hadn't anything to tweak, code or something like that
//EDIT: And in case anyone wants to ask, how I got Thunderbird into the messaging menu,
it's an add-on shipped with Ubuntus Thunderbird, just copy it from Ubuntus package or get the sources here: lp or lp
Oh, and create /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/thunderbird of course.
"Compose New Mail" and "Contacts" are defined in thunderbird.desktop

This will be in Unity-for-Arch-Extra soon

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:37:48

pekmop1024 wrote:

Unity 6.2 is released!
chenxiaolong, will it be available in your PLGBUILDs?
UPDATE. Hmm... what a silence Seems that in Unity 6.2 was updated just 7 packages, so I've updated PKGBUILDs and repo.
Packages are: nux, libunity, unity-lens-applications, unity-lens-files, unity-lens-music, unity-lens-video and unity. And I have some good news: gcc 4.6 is no more needed for building.
So far so good, it's working on my x86_64, and have no problems... If I've missed something for update, please tell packages names

Sorry, usually the Arch Linux forums sends me an email when there's a reply, for the past few days it didn't. Then today, it sends me 20 emails about new posts

I've updated to Unity 6.2 in the git repo yesterday as well as a few other packages (xorg-server-ubuntu, gnome-session-ubuntu, unity-2d, unity, unity-lens-music, unity-lens-files, unity-lens-applications, nux, libunity, indicator-datetime, indicator-sound, indicator-session, indicator-appmenu, bamf, libappindicator, libindicate, libindicator).

Unity-for-Arch-Extra also had a couple packages updated: lightdm-ubuntu and lightdm-unity-greeter.

Thanks a lot for updating the packages so quickly. It's really nice for people who use your repo

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:38:36

quiro91 wrote:

I got a error while compiling nux after the latest update; configure.log reports this error

configure:3529: /home/lorenzo/Unity-for-Arch/nux/src/usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6 -V >&5
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: error: unrecognized option '-V'
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

any ideas?

Could you please post the complete build log? Just run "makepkg -L" and upload the .log files.

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 15:54:20

Release notes 2012-08-20:

1. GTK 2 support was dropped in a few indicators. Please remove indicator-appmenu-gtk2, indicator-datetime-gtk2, indicator-session-gtk2, and indicator-sound-gtk2. If you use the MATE desktop environment (fork of GNOME 2), those indicators will no longer work.

2. Please use the new configuration files as mentioned here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … tion_files I know it's in the systemd article, but it applies to SysVInit/initscripts as well. Using /etc/rc.conf for timezone, language, modules, etc. will be deprecated soon.

The reason the configuration files need to be updated is because indicator-datetime reads the timezone from /etc/timezone (it will just show "Time" if this file does not exist).

Also, I will keep maintaining Unity 2D as long as I can, even though Ubuntu dropped support for it. I've uploaded the last source code that was available to ompldr before Ubuntu deleted it. The links can be found in the PKGBUILD.

quiro91 · 2012-08-20 17:14:22

here's the whole config.log: http://pastebin.com/2eCTmwT4

chenxiaolong wrote:

quiro91 wrote:
I got a error while compiling nux after the latest update; configure.log reports this error
configure:3529: /home/lorenzo/Unity-for-Arch/nux/src/usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6 -V >&5
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: error: unrecognized option '-V'
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
any ideas?
Could you please post the complete build log? Just run "makepkg -L" and upload the .log files.

oi_wtf · 2012-08-20 19:11:45

chenxiaolong wrote:

By the way, what theme are you using? It looks nice!

It's a GTK3 port of this,
I'm working on for quite some time now, but there are still some major issues I couldn't work out yet.
Also I hadn't had the time to clean up the code, so it's quite a mess and nothing to be proud of.
If you want it anyway, I could send it via mail.
Looks like this right now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qi2ah4nrsxip … A4che1.png (left one is GTK2)

chenxiaolong wrote:

Would you mind that I add this to Unity-for-Arch-Extra?

Feel free to add anything I post here! (If I didn't want others to use it, I wouldn't post it. But I'm not like that. )

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-08-20 19:35:14)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-20 20:26:52

quiro91 wrote:

I got a error while compiling nux after the latest update; configure.log reports this error

configure:3529: /home/lorenzo/Unity-for-Arch/nux/src/usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6 -V >&5
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: error: unrecognized option '-V'
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

any ideas?

I'd try

rm -r src pkg

in your nux directory...

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-20 21:43:27

oi_wtf wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
By the way, what theme are you using? It looks nice!
It's a GTK3 port of this,
I'm working on for quite some time now, but there are still some major issues I couldn't work out yet.
Also I hadn't had the time to clean up the code, so it's quite a mess and nothing to be proud of.
If you want it anyway, I could send it via mail.
Looks like this right now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qi2ah4nrsxip … A4che1.png (left one is GTK2)
It looks very nice! Can't wait until it's complete
chenxiaolong wrote:
Would you mind that I add this to Unity-for-Arch-Extra?
Feel free to add anything I post here! (If I didn't want others to use it, I wouldn't post it. But I'm not like that. )

Awesome. It will be in Unity-for-Arch-Extra in a little bit.

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-21 09:35:30

Seems that Arch BBS have problems with emailing... I didn't receive emails too
I'll update repo today.

quiro91 · 2012-08-21 09:46:54

Still getting the same error

oi_wtf wrote:

quiro91 wrote:
I got a error while compiling nux after the latest update; configure.log reports this error
configure:3529: /home/lorenzo/Unity-for-Arch/nux/src/usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6 -V >&5
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: error: unrecognized option '-V'
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.6: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
any ideas?
I'd try
rm -r src pkg
in your nux directory...

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