Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

b9anders · 2012-09-18 14:45:53

any idea when features like this will hit us archers?

Ubuntu 12.10 to Feature Innovative Web App Integration

Never thought I'd say this, but I am actually considering moving to Ubuntu. It's genuinely progressive and has loads of apps and features you just can't get outside of their ecosystem (or not very easily, for average joe users like me). Just discovered everpad which looks like the note program I've been waiting for for a long time.

I'd probably end up cursing the lag and resource-creep and how it discourages personal control, but it sure is looking tastier and tastier these days.

oi_wtf · 2012-09-18 14:59:21

chenxiaolong wrote:

That's weird. I have the Ubuntu help patch disabled for nautilus-ubuntu. Is the same menu shown when a nautilus window is focused?

No, just normal nautilus help, like "Search for files" or "sorting files", an About-dialog, etc...

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-18 16:13:38

franzor wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Thanks for the information! I'll add metacity-ubuntu to the compiz conflicts array in its PKGBUILD, so that they cannot be installed together If you'd like me to add this to the README as well, I can do that.
franzor wrote:
Btw Chenxiaolong if you want to put out precompiled packages I can give you some webspace! (just mail me!)
Thanks for the offer! pekmop1024 is already hosting a repo for Unity-for-Arch and he is usually very quick to update the packages (and sometimes updates them before I do ).

Oh and thank you so much for all the work you are putting into this, i love archlinux and the unity DE is my favourite, wasnt quite sure what to put on my new pc... (ubuntu/arch) you made the decision clear!
thanks a lot

I'm glad you enjoy Unity on Arch!

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-18 16:15:09

oi_wtf wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
That's weird. I have the Ubuntu help patch disabled for nautilus-ubuntu. Is the same menu shown when a nautilus window is focused?
No, just normal nautilus help, like "Search for files" or "sorting files", an About-dialog, etc...

Ahh...I can see it now. I accidentally had Linux Mint's nautilus fork running and that was drawing my desktop, instead of nautilus.

EDIT: "Ubuntu Help" removed

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-18 16:53:01)

kladd · 2012-09-18 16:45:13

Before there was a problem with Ambiance and Radiance themes not working "gtk-window-decorator theme 'Ambiance' not found" (or some similar error) which was solved by installing metacity-ubuntu. Now that extra/metacity is the necessary package for window decorations is there a more recent fix for the two Ubuntu themes? I do have both themes installed as well.

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-18 16:56:18

kladd wrote:

Before there was a problem with Ambiance and Radiance themes not working "gtk-window-decorator theme 'Ambiance' not found" (or some similar error) which was solved by installing metacity-ubuntu. Now that extra/metacity is the necessary package for window decorations is there a more recent fix for the two Ubuntu themes? I do have both themes installed as well.

Unfortunately, Compiz is no longer compatible with the metacity-ubuntu in the AUR. franzor found that this was due to an API (or is it ABI?) change.

Ubuntu's developers probably already know about this as they haven't updated to Compiz 0.9.8.2 yet.

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-18 16:59:09

BKLive wrote:

I have some system hangs with unity lens. Specifically, I will minimize/unminimize a window to the tool bar (left) and a flickering right arrow will show, followed by sluggish behavior. This will cause unity to hang indefinitely, especially if I open the lense while that arrow flickers.
Also, in Ubuntu the desktop is the default 'window' that the unity shell decorates. So if there is no program open, the top bar will show desktop menus. This isn't happening after I open a window. The last window is the menu bar that will remain until I open another.

The flickering bug has just been fixed in the upstream bzr repository. I'll see if I can backport the patch to Compiz 0.9.8.2.

EDIT: Fixed

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-18 17:07:10)

oddfox · 2012-09-18 19:40:49

chenxiaolong wrote:

BKLive wrote:
I have some system hangs with unity lens. Specifically, I will minimize/unminimize a window to the tool bar (left) and a flickering right arrow will show, followed by sluggish behavior. This will cause unity to hang indefinitely, especially if I open the lense while that arrow flickers.
Also, in Ubuntu the desktop is the default 'window' that the unity shell decorates. So if there is no program open, the top bar will show desktop menus. This isn't happening after I open a window. The last window is the menu bar that will remain until I open another.
The flickering bug has just been fixed in the upstream bzr repository. I'll see if I can backport the patch to Compiz 0.9.8.2.
EDIT: Fixed

The flickering is definitely fixed but now there seems to be a new issue rising. When the Unredirect option is on it's very likely that animations and transitions don't happen gracefully. I'm left with artifacts of other windows not going away when I attempt to minimize them, it's kind of like there's a redraw that never happened and only happens with some prodding by, say, attempting to move the window around by grabbing it from the top Unity bar. When the Unredirect option is off, I still get occasional redrawing issues. Screen content that was there shows up momentarily and then is gone again. Really strange stuff and kind of disorienting! Anyways, another detail is that when Unredirect is enabled things like Expo/Overview/etc don't show up at all. I can't click the icons on the Unity panel to switch between multiple windows of the same app because the screen doesn't render the scale-down overview. I can tell that my input was accepted, but there's nothing drawn, whatever window was open and visible stays open and visible. I'm trying to hunt down any related bug report right now on Launchpad but haven't had success just yet.

Last edited by oddfox (2012-09-18 19:53:22)

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-18 21:17:33

b9anders wrote:

any idea when features like this will hit us archers?
Ubuntu 12.10 to Feature Innovative Web App Integration
Never thought I'd say this, but I am actually considering moving to Ubuntu. It's genuinely progressive and has loads of apps and features you just can't get outside of their ecosystem (or not very easily, for average joe users like me). Just discovered everpad which looks like the note program I've been waiting for for a long time.
I'd probably end up cursing the lag and resource-creep and how it discourages personal control, but it sure is looking tastier and tastier these days.

Unity Webapps is mostly packaged now. I won't be able to package the rest until GNOME 3.6 is released as many of Unity's features require it now (Unity photos lens, Unity Webapps, new messages indicator, new power indicator, new ido, etc).

Btw, I'll package Everpad right now

EDIT: Packaged

EDIT2: The dependencies take a long time to compile

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-19 00:08:40)

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-18 21:23:24

python-polib is not building with

==> Starting package()...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 27, in <module>
''' % (open('README.rst').read(), open('CHANGELOG').read())
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 542: ordinal not in range(128)
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...

EDIT: when forced to use python2 in PKGBUILD, all ok.
EDIT2: seems that all unity-webapps needs python2?

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-09-18 21:40:23)

franzor · 2012-09-18 21:30:38

kladd wrote:

Before there was a problem with Ambiance and Radiance themes not working "gtk-window-decorator theme 'Ambiance' not found" (or some similar error) which was solved by installing metacity-ubuntu. Now that extra/metacity is the necessary package for window decorations is there a more recent fix for the two Ubuntu themes? I do have both themes installed as well.

I solved it by installing gnome-tweak-tool and setting the themes with it

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-18 21:34:16

franzor wrote:

I solved it by installing gnome-tweak-tool and setting the themes with it

Great news. Is it need to be logged in to gnome shell session to do this?

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-18 21:51:26

pekmop1024 wrote:

python-polib is not building with
==> Starting package()...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 27, in <module>
''' % (open('README.rst').read(), open('CHANGELOG').read())
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 542: ordinal not in range(128)
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...
EDIT: when forced to use python2 in PKGBUILD, all ok.
EDIT2: seems that all unity-webapps needs python2?

All of them should be using Python 3. That error is caused because LANG is not set to "en_US.UTF-8". I've worked around this in the PKGBUILD

franzor · 2012-09-18 22:10:32

pekmop1024 wrote:

franzor wrote:
I solved it by installing gnome-tweak-tool and setting the themes with it
Great news. Is it need to be logged in to gnome shell session to do this?

nope works with the normal unity session!

franzor · 2012-09-18 22:57:17

Sorry for double posting!

But i have a little problem I cant quite fix...

1.) I cant move the close,minimize,maximize buttons to the left (/apps/metacity/button_layout is set to minimize,maximize,close: and suddenly the value is read-only?!)
2.) The indicator-datetime only shows "Time" instead of the real time. I'm quite sure i configured the time right (this is not my first arch install) I'm using localtime (since i have a windows 7 dualboot) but I also tried ntpd.
Strange thing is when i add a second time it shows in the drop down of the datetime indicator (both times are correct).

The second issue would be nice if someone knows whats wrong i went to bed at 5:00 a.m. today because I had no clock and time flew by ^^

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-19 00:43:01

franzor wrote:

Sorry for double posting!
But i have a little problem I cant quite fix...
1.) I cant move the close,minimize,maximize buttons to the left (/apps/metacity/button_layout is set to minimize,maximize,close: and suddenly the value is read-only?!)

You can move the buttons by changing (in dconf-editor) org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.button-layout. Or you can run the following to set it to Ubuntu's defaults:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout "close,minimize,maximize:"

By the way, gconf will probably won't ever be used again in Ubuntu's software

franzor wrote:

2.) The indicator-datetime only shows "Time" instead of the real time. I'm quite sure i configured the time right (this is not my first arch install) I'm using localtime (since i have a windows 7 dualboot) but I also tried ntpd.
Strange thing is when i add a second time it shows in the drop down of the datetime indicator (both times are correct).

For this, just add your timezone to /etc/timezone The wiki page is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … tion_files You might as well create the other configuration files too as rc.conf will be deprecated with both systemd and SysVInit.

franzor wrote:

The second issue would be nice if someone knows whats wrong i went to bed at 5:00 a.m. today because I had no clock and time flew by ^^

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-19 00:43:59)

franzor · 2012-09-19 01:13:12

Once again you fixed my stuff! Thanks

I'll lay down now, kinda tired

LinuxFrenzy · 2012-09-19 03:00:05

Loving XFCE but I am seriously considering using Unity.Now I can have Unity without having to install Ubuntu.Will try it out tonight.Once again thanks for the work you put in to bring Unity to Arch.

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-19 05:14:34

oddfox wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
BKLive wrote:
I have some system hangs with unity lens. Specifically, I will minimize/unminimize a window to the tool bar (left) and a flickering right arrow will show, followed by sluggish behavior. This will cause unity to hang indefinitely, especially if I open the lense while that arrow flickers.
Also, in Ubuntu the desktop is the default 'window' that the unity shell decorates. So if there is no program open, the top bar will show desktop menus. This isn't happening after I open a window. The last window is the menu bar that will remain until I open another.
The flickering bug has just been fixed in the upstream bzr repository. I'll see if I can backport the patch to Compiz 0.9.8.2.
EDIT: Fixed
The flickering is definitely fixed but now there seems to be a new issue rising. When the Unredirect option is on it's very likely that animations and transitions don't happen gracefully. I'm left with artifacts of other windows not going away when I attempt to minimize them, it's kind of like there's a redraw that never happened and only happens with some prodding by, say, attempting to move the window around by grabbing it from the top Unity bar. When the Unredirect option is off, I still get occasional redrawing issues. Screen content that was there shows up momentarily and then is gone again. Really strange stuff and kind of disorienting! Anyways, another detail is that when Unredirect is enabled things like Expo/Overview/etc don't show up at all. I can't click the icons on the Unity panel to switch between multiple windows of the same app because the screen doesn't render the scale-down overview. I can tell that my input was accepted, but there's nothing drawn, whatever window was open and visible stays open and visible. I'm trying to hunt down any related bug report right now on Launchpad but haven't had success just yet.

I'd suggest compiling this bzr branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~vanvugt/compiz/fix-unredirect-flicker

. The unredirect option fixes are not complete yet and that branch will get the latest commits.

I can write a PKGBUILD if you'd like

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-19 05:15:07

franzor wrote:

Once again you fixed my stuff! Thanks
I'll lay down now, kinda tired

You're welcome! Good night

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-19 05:15:57

LinuxFrenzy wrote:

Loving XFCE but I am seriously considering using Unity.Now I can have Unity without having to install Ubuntu.Will try it out tonight.Once again thanks for the work you put in to bring Unity to Arch.

I hope you enjoy Unity on Arch! If you there are any problems, please let me know

oddfox · 2012-09-19 05:45:59

A PKGBUILD would be awesome, I'm still a greenhorn when it comes to writing PKGBUILD files. I pretty much know enough to add/remove patches and other small things but beyond that I start getting confused.

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-19 06:23:43

oddfox wrote:

A PKGBUILD would be awesome, I'm still a greenhorn when it comes to writing PKGBUILD files. I pretty much know enough to add/remove patches and other small things but beyond that I start getting confused.

Done Just update the git repo and run:

makepkg -p PKGBUILD-fix-unredirect-flicker

in the compiz-ubuntu directory. The latest commit shown here (https://code.launchpad.net/~vanvugt/com … ct-flicker) will be built (so a rebuild will update the package).

If you want to go back to the stable version, just install compiz-ubuntu again

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-19 06:24:09)

roi.dm · 2012-09-19 10:15:23

chenxiaolong wrote:

pekmop1024 wrote:
python-polib is not building with
==> Starting package()...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 27, in <module>
''' % (open('README.rst').read(), open('CHANGELOG').read())
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 542: ordinal not in range(128)
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...
EDIT: when forced to use python2 in PKGBUILD, all ok.
EDIT2: seems that all unity-webapps needs python2?
All of them should be using Python 3. That error is caused because LANG is not set to "en_US.UTF-8". I've worked around this in the PKGBUILD

changing the PKGBUILD with this works fine

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/polib-${pkgver}"
  python setup.py build
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/polib-${pkgver}"
  python setup.py install --root="${pkgdir}/" --optimize=1
}

Last edited by roi.dm (2012-09-19 11:00:03)

qiuwei · 2012-09-19 13:22:43

franzor wrote:

pekmop1024 wrote:
franzor wrote:
I solved it by installing gnome-tweak-tool and setting the themes with it
Great news. Is it need to be logged in to gnome shell session to do this?
nope works with the normal unity session!

But i can't even get gnome-tweak-tool running here. Always got this error:

WARNING : Shell not running
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell.py", line 59, in __init__
    self._shell = GnomeShellFactory().get_shell()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/utils.py", line 38, in getinstance
    instances[cls] = cls()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 143, in __init__
    proxy = _ShellProxy()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/gshellwrapper.py", line 44, in __init__
    result, output = self.proxy.Eval('(s)', js)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gio.py", line 148, in __call__
    kwargs.get('flags', 0), kwargs.get('timeout', -1), None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
    return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Shell was not provided by any .service files
WARNING : Could not list shell extensions
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell.py", line 64, in __init__
    extensions = self._shell.list_extensions()
AttributeError: ShellThemeTweak instance has no attribute '_shell'
INFO    : Missing gsettings org.gnome.shell.clock (key show-date)
INFO    : Missing gsettings org.gnome.shell.clock (key show-seconds)
INFO    : Missing gsettings org.gnome.shell.calendar (key show-weekdate)
INFO    : Missing gsettings org.gnome.shell.overrides (key button-layout)
INFO    : Missing gsettings org.gnome.shell.overrides (key workspaces-only-on-primary)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-tweak-tool", line 76, in <module>
    MainWindow()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/mainwindow.py", line 44, in __init__
    model)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweakview.py", line 40, in __init__
    self._model.load_tweaks()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweakmodel.py", line 135, in load_tweaks
    mods = __import__("gtweak.tweaks", globals(), locals(), tweak_files, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell.py", line 239, in <module>
    StaticWorkspaceTweak(size_group=sg)),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell.py", line 208, in __init__
    settings = GSettingsSetting(self.DYNAMIC_SCHEMA, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/gsettings.py", line 91, in __init__
    raise GSettingsMissingError(schema_name)
gtweak.gsettings.GSettingsMissingError: org.gnome.shell.overrides

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