Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

b9anders · 2012-10-04 10:04:40

I can report that neither photo nor music lens work for me either. They worked in the past. Some upgrade somewhere must have broken it.

and +1 on how to get more lenses.

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-05 06:30:57

qiuwei wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Here is a list of things that are working in Fedora 18 Alpha with GNOME 3.6 (and also Arch when GNOME 3.6 lands):
* LightDM guest session (fiddling with SELinux on Fedora right now, should work find in Arch)
* Ubuntu online accounts is fully working when empathy-ubuntu 3.6.0 is installed
* LightDM remote session is mostly working
* /etc/timezone is no longer required. I ported indicator-datetime to use systemd's timedated. Can someone tell me if GNOME 3.6 will require systemd in Arch? If not, I'll write a fallback mechanism so /etc/timezone can still be used.
* Window decorations are fully working. No hacks, no crashes, no metacity-ubuntu
* GNOME Control Center 3.6 (Ubuntu has 3.4). I've ported the appearance panel to 3.6: http://i.imgur.com/yvf1d.png
* Network Manager runs properly in LightDM (for Remote Desktop). Arch needs to fix their PAM configuration files to include pam_systemd.so for this to work in Arch.
* Indicator Power no longer crashes and can be updated to version 12.10.*.
* Nautilus 3.6 with indicator for file operations (thanks to GNOME 3 PPA maintainers)
There are probably still things I forgot to mention. Let's just say that lots of stuff is now working
Oh, and of course: http://i.imgur.com/Kqcyp.jpg Is this Ubuntu or something else?
Wow, chenxiaolong, you are the hero!

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-05 06:31:52

Unia wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Can someone tell me if GNOME 3.6 will require systemd in Arch? If not, I'll write a fallback mechanism so /etc/timezone can still be used.
Yes, it will. Finally, I contributed my itchy little bit to this project too (I don't use it, but I follow every move.. )

Awesome Thanks for the info!

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-05 06:34:42

Reded wrote:

Quick question, how do I get the music lens working, and (if possible) the photo one?
And is there any way to add other lenses? I know there's many available for Ubuntu.

Rhythmbox is needed for the music lens and Shotwell is needed for the photos len I'm not sure if the music/picture directories need to be added to the respective programs though.

As for other lenses, we'll have them when they are packaged Do you have a list of ones you want? I can package them when I have time.

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-05 06:37:23

Oh..no..this can't be true..

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywo … ection=all

Each one of those has a separate source tarball. Why, Ubuntu, why?

Well, 32 (Arch) + 32 (Fedora) + 32 (openSUSE) more packages to add to my list of stuff to package

EDIT: I'm going to write a script to generates the PKGBUILDs.

EDIT2: Or maybe combine them all into one PKGBUILD?

EDIT3: I'm going to combine them all into one PKGBUILD. This will make it easier for people maintaining a repo for Unity-for-Arch.

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2012-10-05 06:41:48)

pekmop1024 · 2012-10-05 06:43:41

Hmm.. separate packages is good for end-users
Personally for me - it's best solution, because I did not using any social networks.

shiznix · 2012-10-05 07:54:38

Hi guys, just wanted to raise some more thanks for all your efforts up to date getting Unity installed and working on Arch.
Particular credit to you chenxiaolong for your dedication and persistence as I've been tracking the github repo for some months now since May of this year.

I started the same journey but for Gentoo in creating and maintaining the unity-gentoo overlay at https://github.com/shiznix/unity-gentoo
Gentoo and Arch being almost cousin distros, your unity-for-arch repo PKGBUILDs made the effort bearable while porting to Gentoo ebuilds and getting the dependencies and configuration files right.

So as I've been reading this thread with interest it often mirrors the same grief I come up against in getting it to work.

One major problem that I haven't been able to progress is the annoying window placement bug where some application windows at launch are always placed on the desktop at (0,0) x/y coordinates.
Applications like gedit and ccsm do this.
A Ubuntu user had the same problem here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2042613 and fixed it with some foo to do with the compiz place plugin but I haven't been able to report the same success
Are any of you guys able to shed some light on the problem ?
I get this issue with both Unity5 (compiz-0.9.7.8) and Unity6 (compiz-0.9.8.2).

I have a few things in the unity-gentoo repo that you may like also so if there's anything I can do at my end to assist, let me know.

Cheers!

Unia · 2012-10-05 08:54:32

pekmop1024 wrote:

Hmm.. separate packages is good for end-users
Personally for me - it's best solution, because I did not using any social networks.

One can make separate packages with one PKGBUILD. I don't know if that would work here, though.

woomia · 2012-10-05 13:41:44

Rather than reading through 46 pages, can someone point me to the PKGBUILD for this? I'd like to try it.

franzor · 2012-10-05 14:04:11

woomia wrote:

Rather than reading through 46 pages, can someone point me to the PKGBUILD for this? I'd like to try it.

http://unity.xe-xe.org

woomia · 2012-10-05 14:19:33

franzor wrote:

woomia wrote:
Rather than reading through 46 pages, can someone point me to the PKGBUILD for this? I'd like to try it.
http://unity.xe-xe.org

Ah, thanks

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-05 21:50:29

woomia wrote:

Rather than reading through 46 pages, can someone point me to the PKGBUILD for this? I'd like to try it.

The repo is at: http://unity.xe-xe.org/
The PKGBUILDs are at: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-05 21:55:55

Does anyone know how to generate a function during runtime in bash? I need something to turn:

webapps_package -n webappname -v webappver -u webappurl -N webappfullname

into

package_unity-webapps-webappname() {
  pkgver=${webappver}
  pkgdesc="Unity WebApp for ${webappfullname}"
  url="${webappurl}"
  ...
}

That would make the package much cleaner, like in the Fedora: http://i.imgur.com/o2uS9.png

Unia · 2012-10-05 22:03:08

chenxiaolong wrote:

Does anyone know how to generate a function during runtime in bash? I need something to turn:
webapps_package -n webappname -v webappver -u webappurl -N webappfullname
into
package_unity-webapps-webappname() {
  pkgver=${webappver}
  pkgdesc="Unity WebApp for ${webappfullname}"
  url="${webappurl}"
  ...
}
That would make the package much cleaner, like in the Fedora: http://i.imgur.com/o2uS9.png

Best ask that here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=4

oi_wtf · 2012-10-06 03:51:41

it's simple using zsh, but I also don't know how to do it in bash

% cat test.sh
package-$1(){
	echo $0
}
package-$1

% zsh test.sh test
package-test

% bash test.sh test
test.sh: line 4: `package-$1': not a valid identifier
test.sh: line 6: package-test: command not found
[127]

EDIT: Found something: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7145 … m-variable
but remember to escape vars, that should be substituted at runtime of the generated function or else they will substituted on generation time

% cat test-bash.sh
eval "package-$1(){
	echo $1
}"
package-$1 virst-value

% bash test-bash.sh test
test

% cat test-bash.sh
eval "package-$1(){
	echo \$1
}"
package-$1 virst-value

% bash test-bash.sh test
virst-value

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-10-06 04:01:33)

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-06 14:49:55

oi_wtf wrote:

it's simple using zsh, but I also don't know how to do it in bash
% cat test.sh
package-$1(){
	echo $0
}
package-$1

% zsh test.sh test
package-test

% bash test.sh test
test.sh: line 4: `package-$1': not a valid identifier
test.sh: line 6: package-test: command not found
[127]
EDIT: Found something: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7145 … m-variable
but remember to escape vars, that should be substituted at runtime of the generated function or else they will substituted on generation time
% cat test-bash.sh
eval "package-$1(){
	echo $1
}"
package-$1 virst-value

% bash test-bash.sh test
test

% cat test-bash.sh
eval "package-$1(){
	echo \$1
}"
package-$1 virst-value

% bash test-bash.sh test
virst-value

Thanks a lot for this! It's very helpful. I'll start writing the PKGBUILD now

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-06 18:51:10

Unity WebApps is packaged!

PS: Don't tell me that the PKGBUILD is not ugly https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-f … s/PKGBUILD

oi_wtf · 2012-10-06 18:59:49

in webapps-applications you've got the line

mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/locale/{zn,zh}_CN/

I think it should be something like

mv ${pkgdir}/usr/share/locale/{zn,zh}_CN/

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-06 19:06:30

oi_wtf wrote:

in webapps-applications you've got the line
mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/locale/{zn,zh}_CN/
I think it should be something like
mv ${pkgdir}/usr/share/locale/{zn,zh}_CN/

Crap, I should have checked it more carefully when I copied the lines from the fedora packaging

oi_wtf · 2012-10-06 19:23:23

No problem^^

kuglee · 2012-10-07 08:07:05

Could somebody tell me how to enable webapps? I've installed everything, but firefox doesn't notify me about webapps integration.

oi_wtf · 2012-10-07 14:27:10

Check if these three addons are enabled in firefox: http://imageshack.us/a/img528/5237/181auswahl.png
For example in GMail, there's a bar like this: http://imageshack.us/a/img811/9135/179auswahl.png (sry, it's not english)
In GMail you have to click the link in that bar, on omgubuntu.co.uk I got asked automatically,
in any case a... uh... popup like this http://imageshack.us/a/img528/1691/180auswahl.png pops up and asks if you want to integrate the webapp into your desktop...

@chen is it possible to change the ubuntu-icon in the third image?

kuglee · 2012-10-07 16:28:06

Only omgubuntu works for me, the other sites don't.

chenxiaolong · 2012-10-08 00:03:21

oi_wtf wrote:

@chen is it possible to change the ubuntu-icon in the third image?

Done

Reded · 2012-10-08 02:11:02

chenxiaolong wrote:

Reded wrote:
Quick question, how do I get the music lens working, and (if possible) the photo one?
And is there any way to add other lenses? I know there's many available for Ubuntu.
Rhythmbox is needed for the music lens and Shotwell is needed for the photos len I'm not sure if the music/picture directories need to be added to the respective programs though.
As for other lenses, we'll have them when they are packaged Do you have a list of ones you want? I can package them when I have time.

I had none in mind in particular, I was just wondering how much effort the process of getting others installed would be!

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