Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-21 09:52:36

quiro91, as I said, there is no need for GCC 4.6 for building because Quantal is using GCC 4.7, maybe chenxiaolong just forgot to update this. You may edit PKGBUILD by yourself or use one of my PKGBUILDs.

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-08-21 09:52:58)

quiro91 · 2012-08-21 12:11:20

Thanks for your PKGBUILD pekmop1024, it did the trick

pekmop1024 wrote:

quiro91, as I said, there is no need for GCC 4.6 for building because Quantal is using GCC 4.7, maybe chenxiaolong just forgot to update this. You may edit PKGBUILD by yourself or use one of my PKGBUILDs.

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-21 13:14:02

chenxiaolong, I have 2 things to report with last updates:
- there is no need for gcc 4.6 in nux and unity packages;
- accountsservice-ubuntu is outdated, actual version is 6ubuntu3.

UPD. Repo is updated (full rebuild). Because I've added plasma-widget-menubar and xfce4-indicator-plugin, now "install Unity only" string is changed to

# pacman -S $(pacman -Slq unity | grep -v plasma-widget-menubar | grep -v xfce4-indicator-plugin)

If you do just

# pacman -S $(pacman -Slq unity)

as before, pacman will install XFCE and KDE as deps

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-08-21 15:22:52)

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-21 19:19:35

pekmop1024 wrote:

quiro91, as I said, there is no need for GCC 4.6 for building because Quantal is using GCC 4.7, maybe chenxiaolong just forgot to update this. You may edit PKGBUILD by yourself or use one of my PKGBUILDs.

I didn't forget GCC 4.6 used to crash a lot on my old computer, so I wanted to test on that computer first.

Anyway, Unity runs fine on all my computers with GCC 4.7, so the PKGBUILD's no longer use 4.6

EDIT: Accountsservice was updated to the latest version

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-08-21 19:24:24)

b9anders · 2012-08-22 13:40:34

b9anders wrote:

Anyone fancy making a PKGBUILD indicator-calendar? New indicator for google calender:
https://code.launchpad.net/~atareao/cal … ator/trunk
I wrestled with this for half an hour but the truth is I don't know what I am doing. If copy pasting and modifying from various PKGBUILDS that seem like they should work isn't working, I don't really know where to go from there.

Sorry for the bump, but I am still hoping someone might fancy doing this if they just knew it was there.

oi_wtf · 2012-08-22 14:47:29

Well, I'm not using it personally, but I'll make you one, as soon as I've got the time, b9anders.
Should be simple...

//EDIT: PKGBUILD, checked with namcap and compared packages content to the ubuntu ppa package I found here, all files should be in the right place... but I haven't tested it yet.
Sadly, there isn't any kind of Makefile in that code, all files are copied to their right place by dpkg-buildpackage, so I had to do that in the PKGBUILD...
Also, I've got no idea, if it uses python2 or python3, so you might have to add

sed -i 's|\(#!.*bin.*python$\)|\12|g' <file>

for some files in the PKGBUILD...

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-08-22 16:03:00)

b9anders · 2012-08-22 16:02:41

Thanks a lot, oi. It uses python2 and needs python2-httplib2 as a dependency as well, but after fixing that I've got it running.

This is perfect. Been missing something like this for ages.

Last edited by b9anders (2012-08-22 16:04:42)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-22 16:10:50

btw, if you install abs-Package you've got plenty of templates for PKGBUILDs in your /usr/share/pacman directory

rilian-la-te · 2012-08-24 16:56:40

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-f … /issues/41

Getting up double menus theme

sku · 2012-08-24 20:14:09

Some questions:
1) Is link in first post valid and up-to-date? It has some scary screenshots, it's not clear, where is the state-of-the-art going, in the repo mentioned or somewhere else.
2) why it is not on AUR? Are there bugs or other subtle things that prevent this from happen?
3) Sorry, I do not want to read all the 33 pages, I just want to try Unity. Is there a more convenient way to install it then " just clone my git repository and read the README file". I am not sure that I want to clone repositories. Can I just add something to repo list and just install it from, well, yaourt?
4) Does it work just as it is or I have to hack PKGBUILD's to get it to work?

pekmop1024 · 2012-08-24 20:15:02

http://unity.xe-xe.org/

sku · 2012-08-24 20:16:38

Thanks, pekmop1024.

sku · 2012-08-25 00:23:15

I've read about it more closely and installed it from sources. Works as a charm, arch theme is looking excellent. Thanks you all.

b9anders · 2012-08-25 10:24:11

Is anyone else having problems with the systray? It keeps disappearing from the panel. When I switch workspaces, it becomes briefly visible, but then it returns to being hidden away and unresponsive to clicks. usually, restarting compiz restores it (though it's a pain, as it doesn't remember the workspaces windows were in properly) but lately it disappears again almost immediately after.

The indicators are fine. It's only those apps that still haven't got one and appear in the systray instead that trouble.

oi_wtf · 2012-08-25 11:00:06

My systray is fine... looking like it should at the same place as ever...
Well, I now noticed, it's only on my first display, though.
But no problems when switching workspaces.

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-27 00:07:37

I have some good and bad news for today.

The good news: Ubuntu finally stops using the deprecated GConf in many packages. This means that we won't have problems with Unity not loading due to issues with registering GConf schemas anymore.

The bad news: The dropping of GConf support in the packages means that Unity 2D will no longer work. I currently don't have enough experience to port Unity 2D to GSettings and certainly don't have enough knowledge to maintain the code Those who want to continue using Unity 2D need to downgrade all of the GNOME packages to the Ubuntu 12.04 versions, Unity and all its lenses to version 5, and all the indicators to the pre-12.10.0 versions. This is because Ubuntu deleted all the 12.10 sources from its repos. Please note: if you are willing to go through all that work to use Unity 2D, you will still run into the previous DBus issue that caused indicators to not show up.

For Unity 3D users: the newest Compiz and Unity updates should use a lot less CPU usage and feel faster in general

EDIT: Please remove indicator-messages-gtk2 after updating.

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-08-27 00:08:48)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-27 01:18:37

got an issue, after the update, all gtk apps, including gnome-session (no login possible), now crash with following error:

(updater:5865): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'com.canonical.desktop.interface' is not installed

So much for no error due Schemas

//EDIT: Found out which package is causing this, it's "overlay-scrollbar"
//EDIT2: I think it should be ' rm -rvf "${pkgdir}/usr/lib"' in line 47 of the PKGBUILD

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-08-27 01:52:43)

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-27 02:58:58

oi_wtf wrote:

got an issue, after the update, all gtk apps, including gnome-session (no login possible), now crash with following error:
(updater:5865): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'com.canonical.desktop.interface' is not installed
So much for no error due Schemas
//EDIT: Found out which package is causing this, it's "overlay-scrollbar"
//EDIT2: I think it should be ' rm -rvf "${pkgdir}/usr/lib"' in line 47 of the PKGBUILD

Ahh...thanks a lot for finding the solution! I must be really tired today. First, I broke the Compiz package (also due to missing schemas) and now this

oi_wtf · 2012-08-27 03:07:53

No harm done

Well, I'm pretty tired too (It's 5am here, atm) I'll just start the compiz build and try get to my bed

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-27 03:26:35

oi_wtf wrote:

No harm done
Well, I'm pretty tired too (It's 5am here, atm) I'll just start the compiz build and try get to my bed

Wow, 5 am! And I thought I stayed up late (3 am)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-27 12:33:26

Another issue,
the files

/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.networkarearegion.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.unitydialog.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.unitymtgrabhandles.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.unityshell.gschema.xml

didn't get installed on my system.
They don't matter when using compiz with gconf backend, but they cause ccsm to crash when using gsettings backend.
I copied them from here for now...

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-27 19:05:50

oi_wtf wrote:

Another issue,
the files
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.networkarearegion.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.unitydialog.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.unitymtgrabhandles.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.compiz.unityshell.gschema.xml
didn't get installed on my system.
They don't matter when using compiz with gconf backend, but they cause ccsm to crash when using gsettings backend.
I copied them from here for now...

Unity's CMake build system seems to be very inconsistent. I just tried running makepkg and those files were missing. I ran makepkg again and the files were there. I ran it a third time and the files were missing again.

I'll just make the PKGBUILD install the schemas manually.

EDIT: If you didn't clean out your build directory, could you tar and upload the src/ directory? Thanks!

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-08-27 19:12:30)

oi_wtf · 2012-08-27 19:59:50

Here ya go: http://www.mediafire.com/?q4g8gycu6847ifi

chenxiaolong · 2012-08-27 20:10:03

oi_wtf wrote:

Here ya go: http://www.mediafire.com/?q4g8gycu6847ifi

I can't seem to download it:

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Sorry, forgot to mark it as public...

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