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n3m

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Registered: 2014-10-08

Posts: 10

Pantheon - Gala not starting

Hi,
I tried replacing my Gnome setup with Pantheon, but ran into a problem regarding Gala.
I deinstalled Gnome and its dependencies using

# pacman -Rscn gnome

and then installed Pantheon using the packages mentioned in the wiki (pantheon-session-bzr, pulled all dependencies, lateron I installed some more additional stuff like gazette-bzr to try fixing the problem).

Everything is starting, except for Gala (see screenshot), most of the windows, e.g. Chrome don't have window borders. Wingpanel, Gazette (now removed, because didn't help either), Pank, everything is starting except for the window manager. When running Gala from the terminal in tty2 (with or without an xinit instance on tty1), the error code looks like this:

(gala:9937): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified class size for type 'GalaWindowManagerGala' is smaller than the parent type's 'MetaPlugin' class size

(gala:9937): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(gala:9937): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(gala:9937): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

This error message also shows up when running startx from the terminal.
I think this looks like a dependency error, but google couldn't help me on this one.

Here's also a screenshot, maybe I'm wrong and it's not Gala that's failing:

Does anybody know, what I messed up? My ~/.xinitrc looks exactly like the one in the wiki.
Thanks in advance

Weegee

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Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 62

Re: Pantheon - Gala not starting

Which version is your Gala package at? Gala only worked for me after I built the latest version from the AUR instead of using the one from the inofficial repository, because it doesn't seem to support GNOME 3.14 yet.

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n3m

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Registered: 2014-10-08

Posts: 10

Re: Pantheon - Gala not starting

I can't believe that I didn't see that. The official packages hold version 0.1.0.418, whilst the AUR holds 0.1.0.423.
Thank you very much, I thought there was something really wrong, but it seems you're right with Gnome not being supported yet. Anyway, thank you very much, it's working like a charm now!