Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-13 20:56:42

Latest update instructions:

1. Update all packages.
2. Remove xorg-server-devel, xorg-server-utils, xorg-server-xdmx, xorg-server-xephyr, xorg-server-xnest, and xorg-server-xvfb.
3. Install inputproto, libx11, libxi, xorg-xinput, xorg-server, xorg-server-common, xf86-input-evdev, and xf86-input-synaptics (if you have a Synaptics/Alps touchpad).
4. Enjoy compiling less packages

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 00:08:22

Initial progress on ubuntu-tweak: it at least runs

Screenshot: http://ompldr.org/vZDE0YQ

giowck · 2012-03-14 00:09:03

Thanks for your work, this is great

kuglee · 2012-03-14 11:30:44

Thank for the update chenxiaolong!
Sadly unity is started to behaving badly on my machine. Indicators are reloading crazy and then crash. Also when the launcher is set to autohide I can't unhide it.
http://pastebin.com/xgX0J24u

mr_comic · 2012-03-14 15:07:37

chenxiaolong wrote:

Initial progress on ubuntu-tweak: it at least runs
Screenshot: http://ompldr.org/vZDE0YQ

While I saw your screenshot I noticed that my unity panel doesn't have the user name on it and it also doesn't show the date [also I don't have the video lens even though It's installed but it never bothered me]

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 17:43:58

kuglee wrote:

Thank for the update chenxiaolong!
Sadly unity is started to behaving badly on my machine. Indicators are reloading crazy and then crash. Also when the launcher is set to autohide I can't unhide it.
http://pastebin.com/xgX0J24u

If you don't mind losing your Unity and Compiz settings, could you try resetting them (login to another DE first)?

rm -rv ~/.config/compiz-1
rm -rv ~/.compiz-1
rm -rv ~/.cache/compizconfig-1
rm -rv ~/.cache/unity
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
rm -rv ~/.gconf/apps/compiz-1
rm -rv ~/.gconf/apps/compizconfig-1

BTW, I'm also having the issue where the I can't unhide the launcher.

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 17:44:47

giowck wrote:

Thanks for your work, this is great

I'm glad you like it

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 17:46:15

mr_comic wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Initial progress on ubuntu-tweak: it at least runs
Screenshot: http://ompldr.org/vZDE0YQ
While I saw your screenshot I noticed that my unity panel doesn't have the user name on it and it also doesn't show the date [also I don't have the video lens even though It's installed but it never bothered me]

Could you try recompiling indicator-datetime and indicator-session? I also had this issue for a while, but one of the updates must have fixed it.

If it still doesn't work, could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file?

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 17:50:45

Ubuntu Tweak is ported!

The PKGBUILD is available in the Unity-for-Arch-Extra git repo: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch-Extra . The python-defer package from the same git repo needs to be installed first.

This version of Ubuntu Tweak has the apt related stuff removed and also anything that requires root (only the Login manager tweak). Ubuntu Tweak uses a PolicyKit API provided by the aptdaemon library, so I had to remove it.

And of course, the obligatory screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/OkWZo#0

mr_comic · 2012-03-14 17:54:32

chenxiaolong wrote:

mr_comic wrote:
chenxiaolong wrote:
Initial progress on ubuntu-tweak: it at least runs
Screenshot: http://ompldr.org/vZDE0YQ
While I saw your screenshot I noticed that my unity panel doesn't have the user name on it and it also doesn't show the date [also I don't have the video lens even though It's installed but it never bothered me]
Could you try recompiling indicator-datetime and indicator-session? I also had this issue for a while, but one of the updates must have fixed it.
If it still doesn't work, could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file?

Date time is now working, session still not present. [Oh God, D: I have like 10 .xsession-errors files. Which one should I pick?]

Edit: Reading the .xsession-errors file I found a "unity-panel-service: process not found" It's something too bad?

Last edited by mr_comic (2012-03-14 18:15:04)

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 19:03:47

mr_comic wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
mr_comic wrote:
While I saw your screenshot I noticed that my unity panel doesn't have the user name on it and it also doesn't show the date [also I don't have the video lens even though It's installed but it never bothered me]
Could you try recompiling indicator-datetime and indicator-session? I also had this issue for a while, but one of the updates must have fixed it.
If it still doesn't work, could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file?
Date time is now working, session still not present. [Oh God, D: I have like 10 .xsession-errors files. Which one should I pick?]
Edit: Reading the .xsession-errors file I found a "unity-panel-service: process not found" It's something too bad?

Wow, that many? Since they are just log files, you can delete all of them and only one should be recreated when you login again.

"unity-panel-service: process not found" is not bad. Unity runs "killall unity-panel-service" every time it starts to kill off any previous instances of Unity (say if Unity hangs, and you need run "/usr/bin/unity" to reload it).

kuglee · 2012-03-14 21:00:27

I've deleted configs, created new user, still not good. I noticed, if I start a maximized application first, the indicators stay put (The indicators are not reloading when I get to the desktop).

Indicator-me only appeared for me when I installed lightdm, and maybe when I had more than one user account.

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-14 23:56:33

kuglee wrote:

I've deleted configs, created new user, still not good. I noticed, if I start a maximized application first, the indicators stay put (The indicators are not reloading when I get to the desktop).
Indicator-me only appeared for me when I installed lightdm, and maybe when I had more than one user account.

Hmm...I thought development for indicator-me stopped in Ubuntu 11.04. Anyway, could you try recompiling and reinstalling the following (in the order listed)?

libdbusmenu
libindicator
libindicate
libindicate-qt
libappindicator
bamf

and also any indicator-* packages you have installed (pacman -Q | grep indicator-).

kuglee · 2012-03-15 11:26:31

I've recompiled the packages, but nothing has changed.

Here's what I got from dmesg:
[ 157.812388] unity-panel-ser[1239]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f98315d7b82 sp 00007fff012e98a8 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3120.0[7f983155d000+f2000]

I forgot that indicator-me was renamed indicator-session.

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-15 15:30:24

kuglee wrote:

I've recompiled the packages, but nothing has changed.
Here's what I got from dmesg:
[ 157.812388] unity-panel-ser[1239]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f98315d7b82 sp 00007fff012e98a8 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3120.0[7f983155d000+f2000]
I forgot that indicator-me was renamed indicator-session.

Thanks to that error message, I was able to find the bug

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11762422
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/956061

For now, the workaround is to remove the indicator-appmenu package.

kuglee · 2012-03-15 15:49:47

. At least it's not my system that's buggy.

mr_comic · 2012-03-16 19:40:23

Should we change the unity's wiki page? I mean, it's pointing to install unity the old-AUR-based way.

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-17 01:22:49

mr_comic wrote:

Should we change the unity's wiki page? I mean, it's pointing to install unity the old-AUR-based way.

I think we should just post a link to this forum topic. City-Busz's packages in the AUR are follow the Arch way (least amount of patches to make the package work) and his packages work for Unity 2D. Also, all my work is based off of his, so I think it would be very impolite to remove the instructions on how to install his packages.

EDIT: By the way, City-Busz is a TU now, so we might see some Unity/Ayatana packages pop up in the Community repo

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-03-17 01:23:32)

mr_comic · 2012-03-17 05:36:37

chenxiaolong wrote:

I think we should just post a link to this forum topic. City-Busz's packages in the AUR are follow the Arch way (least amount of patches to make the package work) and his packages work for Unity 2D. Also, all my work is based off of his, so I think it would be very impolite to remove the instructions on how to install his packages.
EDIT: By the way, City-Busz is a TU now, so we might see some Unity/Ayatana packages pop up in the Community repo

Yeah, that seems nice I though about it because of the people who arrive at this topic cause they tried to instal unity via AUR and failed, so the links seems like a nice option.

Also I don't quite know what's going on but since the X update installing everything required by unity breaks my system and I can enter to GDM but it fails to enter to any DE

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-17 06:52:05

mr_comic wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
I think we should just post a link to this forum topic. City-Busz's packages in the AUR are follow the Arch way (least amount of patches to make the package work) and his packages work for Unity 2D. Also, all my work is based off of his, so I think it would be very impolite to remove the instructions on how to install his packages.
EDIT: By the way, City-Busz is a TU now, so we might see some Unity/Ayatana packages pop up in the Community repo
Yeah, that seems nice I though about it because of the people who arrive at this topic cause they tried to instal unity via AUR and failed, so the links seems like a nice option.
Also I don't quite know what's going on but since the X update installing everything required by unity breaks my system and I can enter to GDM but it fails to enter to any DE

Good point. We can put a notice that says anyone what wants to install Unity 3D can visit this topic.

Could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file after trying to log in to Unity and another DE?

# From a TTY
# Login to Unity
cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/xsession-errors.unity
# Login to another DE
cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/xsession-errors.anotherde

Thanks!

mr_comic · 2012-03-17 14:27:53

chenxiaolong wrote:

Could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file after trying to log in to Unity and another DE?
# From a TTY
# Login to Unity
cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/xsession-errors.unity
# Login to another DE
cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/xsession-errors.anotherde
Thanks!

Ok, leme install unity again and i'll post it also i'm almost sure the package that is causing the weird "icon-in-a-box" look is gdk-pixbuf2

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-17 17:04:41

mr_comic wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Could you post your ~/.xsession-errors file after trying to log in to Unity and another DE?
# From a TTY
# Login to Unity
cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/xsession-errors.unity
# Login to another DE
cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/xsession-errors.anotherde
Thanks!
Ok, leme install unity again and i'll post it also i'm almost sure the package that is causing the weird "icon-in-a-box" look is gdk-pixbuf2

Yeah, unfortunately, we have to have the GNOME 3.2 and GNOME 3.3/3.4 mix to use the Ubuntu 12.04 Unity. Otherwise, we would have to revert back to the buggy Ubuntu 11.10 Unity

mr_comic · 2012-03-17 17:30:25

chenxiaolong wrote:

Yeah, unfortunately, we have to have the GNOME 3.2 and GNOME 3.3/3.4 mix to use the Ubuntu 12.04 Unity. Otherwise, we would have to revert back to the buggy Ubuntu 11.10 Unity

About that I have a quick question, today afte uninstalling unity I switched to [gnome-unstable] repo that has 3.4beta2 on it. Should I revert before installing unity?

chenxiaolong · 2012-03-17 18:13:02

mr_comic wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Yeah, unfortunately, we have to have the GNOME 3.2 and GNOME 3.3/3.4 mix to use the Ubuntu 12.04 Unity. Otherwise, we would have to revert back to the buggy Ubuntu 11.10 Unity
About that I have a quick question, today afte uninstalling unity I switched to [gnome-unstable] repo that has 3.4beta2 on it. Should I revert before installing unity?

Actually, if you don't mind testing, it should work better than GNOME 3.2 Ubuntu 12.04 is already at GNOME 3.4beta2.

mr_comic · 2012-03-18 08:14:49

chenxiaolong wrote:

Actually, if you don't mind testing, it should work better than GNOME 3.2 Ubuntu 12.04 is already at GNOME 3.4beta2.

Awesome, I'll test it Any advice or package chang while doing this? Also if there's any way I could help with Unity I'll help

 make[4]: se ingresa al directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/libappindicator/src/libappindicator-0.4.91/build-gtk2/bindings/vala/examples'
/usr/bin/valac --pkg appindicator-0.1 --vapidir=../../../bindings/vala --save-temps -C ../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala -o indicator-example.c
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:42.18-42.21: error: `Menu' is an ambiguous reference between `GLib.Menu' and `Gtk.Menu'
		var menu = new Menu();
		               ^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:44.18-44.25: error: `MenuItem' is an ambiguous reference between `GLib.MenuItem' and `Gtk.MenuItem'
		var item = new MenuItem.with_label("Foo");
		               ^^^^^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:44.7-44.43: error: var declaration not allowed with non-typed initializer
		var item = new MenuItem.with_label("Foo");
		    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:45.3-45.6: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		item.activate.connect(() => {
		^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:48.3-48.6: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		item.show();
		^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:49.15-49.18: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		menu.append(item);
		            ^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:51.13-51.16: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		var bar = item = new MenuItem.with_label("Bar");
		          ^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:51.7-51.49: error: var declaration not allowed with non-typed initializer
		var bar = item = new MenuItem.with_label("Bar");
		    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:52.3-52.6: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		item.show();
		^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:53.3-53.6: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		item.activate.connect(() => {
		^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:56.15-56.18: error: The name `item' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		menu.append(item);
		            ^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:58.22-58.25: error: Argument 1: Cannot convert from `GLib.Menu' to `Gtk.Menu?'
		indicator.set_menu(menu);
		                   ^^^^
../../../../bindings/vala/examples/indicator-example.vala:59.43-59.45: error: The name `bar' does not exist in the context of `IndicatorExample.main'
		indicator.set_secondary_activate_target(bar);
		                                        ^^^
Compilation failed: 13 error(s), 0 warning(s)
make[4]: *** [indicator-example.c] Error 1
make[4]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/libappindicator/src/libappindicator-0.4.91/build-gtk2/bindings/vala/examples'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/libappindicator/src/libappindicator-0.4.91/build-gtk2/bindings/vala'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/libappindicator/src/libappindicator-0.4.91/build-gtk2/bindings'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/libappindicator/src/libappindicator-0.4.91/build-gtk2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Se produjo un error en build().
    Cancelando...

Error compiling libappindicator

 make[4]: se ingresa al directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/mutter-ubuntu/src/mutter-3.2.2/src'
  CC     async-getprop.lo
  CC     bell.lo
  CC     boxes.lo
  CC     cogl-utils.lo
  CC     compositor.lo
  CC     meta-background-actor.lo
compositor/meta-background-actor.c: In function 'meta_background_actor_update':
compositor/meta-background-actor.c:542:7: warning: passing argument 1 of 'cogl_texture_pixmap_x11_new' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
/usr/include/cogl/cogl/cogl-texture-pixmap-x11.h:102:1: note: expected 'struct CoglContext *' but argument is of type 'Pixmap'
compositor/meta-background-actor.c:542:7: error: too few arguments to function 'cogl_texture_pixmap_x11_new'
/usr/include/cogl/cogl/cogl-texture-pixmap-x11.h:102:1: note: declared here
make[4]: *** [meta-background-actor.lo] Error 1
make[4]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/mutter-ubuntu/src/mutter-3.2.2/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/mutter-ubuntu/src/mutter-3.2.2/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/mutter-ubuntu/src/mutter-3.2.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/palahjunkie/Unity-for-Arch/mutter-ubuntu/src/mutter-3.2.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Se produjo un error en build().
    Cancelando...

and mutter-ubuntu [hahahahaha found a AUR package (muffin-git) which has the same error and it's cause I use gnome-unstable cause of the new version of cogl]

Last edited by mr_comic (2012-03-18 16:33:25)

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