Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 13:17:10

It seems that my unity is not using metacity. If I switch to metacity manually, everything works like a charm.

b9anders · 2012-09-02 13:37:12

Compiz is working fine for me, but there are some curius tiny regressions. Highlights in Scale aren't transparent. It just turns the window white. And Text in Scale, Switchers etc has gone from a rounded transparent bubble to an ugly non-transparent black box with no rounded corners.

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 14:19:04

After I delete all settings related to gnome such as .gnome .gnome2 .gconf, the performance problem seems to be solved.
But the decoration is still weird, as the pic shows

Is it a new feature?
And I can't adjust the location of control button. They are always top right.

Last edited by qiuwei (2012-09-02 14:19:45)

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 14:57:08

pekmop1024 wrote:

libunity-webapps is missed packagekit dep.

Added to dependencies

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 15:06:15

qiuwei wrote:

After I delete all settings related to gnome such as .gnome .gnome2 .gconf, the performance problem seems to be solved.
But the decoration is still weird, as the pic shows
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5017/titlebary.png
Is it a new feature?
And I can't adjust the location of control button. They are always top right.

Try running the following commands. The first one should set the title bar theme and the second one should set the font size. The third one will move the buttons to the left.

gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/theme "$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme | sed "s/'//g")" --type string
gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/titlebar_font "$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences titlebar-font | sed "s/'//g")" --type string
gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "close,minimize,maximize:" --type string

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-02 15:06:34)

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 15:12:32

chenxiaolong wrote:

qiuwei wrote:
After I delete all settings related to gnome such as .gnome .gnome2 .gconf, the performance problem seems to be solved.
But the decoration is still weird, as the pic shows
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5017/titlebary.png
Is it a new feature?
And I can't adjust the location of control button. They are always top right.
Try running the following commands. The first one should set the title bar theme and the second one should set the font size. The third one will move the buttons to the left.
gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/theme "$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme | sed "s/'//g")" --type string
gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/titlebar_font "$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences titlebar-font | sed "s/'//g")" --type string
gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "close,minimize,maximize:" --type string

Hi, chenxiaolong, it doesn't work.
I don't know whether I understand it right or not, with Unity 6.4, we can already use gtk-window-decorator, is it true?

Last edited by qiuwei (2012-09-02 15:21:31)

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 15:21:36

The decorator in your screenshot looks like emerald's default theme...
To get metacity back, start ccsm, goto Window Decorator and set "/usr/bin/metacity" as "command".
Then log out and back in.

//EDIT: Or, to customize emerald, open "Emerald Theme Manager"

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-09-02 15:23:53)

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 15:23:36

b9anders wrote:

Compiz is working fine for me, but there are some curius tiny regressions. Highlights in Scale aren't transparent. It just turns the window white. And Text in Scale, Switchers etc has gone from a rounded transparent bubble to an ugly non-transparent black box with no rounded corners.

Could you take a screenshot of what you mean? I'm not exactly sure what Scale is, but when I press the keys for it (<Super> w), I see this: http://ompldr.org/vZmMwZw/2012-09-02-11 … _scrot.png I don't see white windows.

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 15:27:02

oi_wtf wrote:

The decorator in your screenshot looks like emerald's default theme...
To get metacity back, start ccsm, goto Window Decorator and set "/usr/bin/metacity" as "command".
Then log out and back in.
//EDIT: Or, to customize emerald, open "Emerald Theme Manager"

Actually I'm not using emerald, I'm using the default gtk-window-decorator. I also tried metacity, it seems that we can't use metacity standalone as a decorator.
I tried emerald which makes the theme not harmony with the whole unity.

Thanks anyway. So the windows decoration works perfectly on your system? I already deleted all possible gnome settings but still got the same result.

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 15:29:28

Well, I'm using emerald in the first place...
Maybe gtk-window-decorator defaults to emerald on your system...
You sure you've got metacity installed?

Anyway, if you want to run metacity manually, you have to use "metacity --replace",
or it will complain, that there's already a decorator running.

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-09-02 15:31:43)

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 15:35:02

oi_wtf wrote:

Well, I'm using emerald in the first place...
And yes, you are using emerald, it seems gtk-window-decorator defaults to emerald on your system...
You sure you've got metacity installed?
Anyway, if you want to run metacity manually, you have to use "metacity --replace",
or it will complain, that there's already a decorator running.

Sure, but metacity is a windows manager, isn't it? I think it's also using gtk-window-decorator as the decorator. Then the strange thing is that the gtk-window-decorator looks different under compiz and metacity. Also the gconf settings don't affect the look of gtk-window-decorator under compiz. For me, it seems like a bug of compiz-ubuntu.

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 15:38:29

Oops, sorry, got window-manager and decorator confused...
Well, can you try executing "gtk-window-decorator --replace" and tell me, if it works...
Maybe you need to add the "--replace" to the command in the decorator-plugin...
The decorator in your screenshot is definitely emerald, since the gtk-decorator doesn't support transparency...
Also, if "--replace" doesn't work, you could try uninstalling emerald (pacman -R emerald)

EDIT: On my system gtk-decorator looks exactly like it should, see:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3553/135auswahl.png
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7051/136auswahl.png

EDIT2: Another thought... Have you still got metacity-ubuntu or the arch package installed?

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-09-02 16:00:23)

b9anders · 2012-09-02 16:13:08

qiuwei wrote:

oi_wtf wrote:
Well, I'm using emerald in the first place...
And yes, you are using emerald, it seems gtk-window-decorator defaults to emerald on your system...
You sure you've got metacity installed?
Anyway, if you want to run metacity manually, you have to use "metacity --replace",
or it will complain, that there's already a decorator running.
Sure, but metacity is a windows manager, isn't it? I think it's also using gtk-window-decorator as the decorator. Then the strange thing is that the gtk-window-decorator looks different under compiz and metacity. Also the gconf settings don't affect the look of gtk-window-decorator under compiz. For me, it seems like a bug of compiz-ubuntu.

Have you tried setting it under Ubuntu Tweaks?

Or for that matter, in Emerald Settings?

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 16:15:23

oi_wtf wrote:

Oops, sorry, got window-manager and decorator confused...
Well, can you try executing "gtk-window-decorator --replace" and tell me, if it works...
Maybe you need to add the "--replace" to the command in the decorator-plugin...
The decorator in your screenshot is definitely emerald, since the gtk-decorator doesn't support transparency...
Also, if "--replace" doesn't work, you could try uninstalling emerald (pacman -R emerald)
EDIT: On my system gtk-decorator looks exactly like it should, see:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3553/135auswahl.png
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7051/136auswahl.png
EDIT2: Another thought... Have you still got metacity-ubuntu or the arch package installed?

Hi, thanks a lot for the experiment. I tried gtk-window-decorator --replace, but nothing changed.
No, I'm sure I'm using gtk-decorator because I didn't even install emerald:)
Are you using the newest packages from pekmop1024's repository?

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 16:18:18

Nope, I build them myself from chenxiaolong's git repo...

b9anders · 2012-09-02 16:21:47

chenxiaolong wrote:

b9anders wrote:
Compiz is working fine for me, but there are some curius tiny regressions. Highlights in Scale aren't transparent. It just turns the window white. And Text in Scale, Switchers etc has gone from a rounded transparent bubble to an ugly non-transparent black box with no rounded corners.
Could you take a screenshot of what you mean? I'm not exactly sure what Scale is, but when I press the keys for it (<Super> w), I see this: http://ompldr.org/vZmMwZw/2012-09-02-11 … _scrot.png I don't see white windows.

Draw Window Highlight is an option in the scale plugin. It's supposed to put a transparent sheen over the highlighted window. Looks like this instead:

And ugly Text (can also be seen in screenshot above):

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 16:34:32

oi_wtf wrote:

Nope, I build them myself from chenxiaolong's git repo...

Is it unity 6.4 and compiz-ubuntu 0.98?

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 16:36:33

$ compiz --version
Compiz 0.9.8.0
$ unity --version
unity 6.4.0
$ pacman -Q compiz-ubuntu unity 
compiz-ubuntu 0.9.8.0.z0ubuntu1-100
unity 6.4.0.0ubuntu1-100

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 17:14:13

Recompiled unity and compiz-ubuntu, problems sovled:)
Thanks guys, especially oi_wtf:)

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 21:33:56

decorations bug is confirmed, seems that it is build deps problem, I'll try to fix.

EDIT. Seems to be fixed, just update.

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-09-02 23:36:01)

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-03 00:20:37

Ubuntu is currently in the process of porting gtk-window-decorator to GSettings. If anyone is still having issues with it, please try the GSettings version by building with:

GWD_GSETTINGS=true makepkg

EDIT: It looks kinda ugly right now though...

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-09-03 00:21:02)

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-03 00:24:15

I've solved this problem in shamanic way
Just rebuild libunity-webapps, bamf, nux and compiz in environment with installed Unity 6.2 from 21.08.2012.
Also, you was right about globalmenu and xulrunner issue: it's just need to have xulrunner 15 in system and to build extensions with it.
And one more thing about libunity-webapps: packagekit is a build-time dep.

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-09-03 00:32:05)

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-03 00:26:05

b9anders wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
b9anders wrote:
Compiz is working fine for me, but there are some curius tiny regressions. Highlights in Scale aren't transparent. It just turns the window white. And Text in Scale, Switchers etc has gone from a rounded transparent bubble to an ugly non-transparent black box with no rounded corners.
Could you take a screenshot of what you mean? I'm not exactly sure what Scale is, but when I press the keys for it (<Super> w), I see this: http://ompldr.org/vZmMwZw/2012-09-02-11 … _scrot.png I don't see white windows.
Draw Window Highlight is an option in the scale plugin. It's supposed to put a transparent sheen over the highlighted window. Looks like this instead:
http://ompldr.org/tZmMxZg
And ugly Text (can also be seen in screenshot above):
http://ompldr.org/tZmMxZw

Ah, I can reproduce it now. I'm not sure how to fix it. Hopefully, it'll be fixed in the next release.

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-03 00:57:54

GWD_GSETTINGS=true makepkg

can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|=== modified file 'cmake/CompizGSettings.cmake'
|--- cmake/CompizGSettings.cmake 2012-07-29 03:23:28 +0000
|+++ cmake/CompizGSettings.cmake 2012-09-01 07:19:22 +0000
--------------------------

EDIT: Also, do you have any thoughts about disappeared indicator panel shadow? There is no bug report on launchpad, so it seems to be Arch-specific...

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-09-03 01:00:28)

b9anders · 2012-09-03 08:40:04

Just upgraded to the latest compiz on the repo - problem across the last two upgrades - The Command plugin doesn't remember any commands. As soon as I leave the window in ccsm, they get erased.

Arch Linux

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