Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-26 18:59:49

Everyone using the Unity-for-Arch and Unity-for-Arch-Extra (binary) repos should now receive updates a lot quicker. The build server now runs on KVM instead of Xen and the build VM is optimized to have much better disk performance and make better use of the limited RAM. If anyone has been paying attention to the latest git commits, the build-in-chroot.sh script is now ccache enabled. The build times after 1 more build should be much lower. For example, Mir's build time went from 90 minutes to 31 minutes

EDIT: The reason it's so slow right now is because a Windows VM on the same server decides that it's the perfect time to run an antivirus scan and install WIndows Updates at the same time.

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2013-05-26 21:22:12)

hachre · 2013-05-26 19:02:09

Very nice!!! Great Thanks for all your work... I'm making Ubuntu packages for dart and getting that all scripted and working well was quite painful already... I really can't imagine how much work it is to keep all this running... thanks!!

Mektub · 2013-05-27 19:15:58

chenxiaolong,

many thanks for your work! This is a great project, and I am using it.

Just for the record, I recompiled gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu without the pulseaudio dependency, since I stopped having sound troubles since about one year ago I eleminated pulseaudio.

In the last pacman -Suy, today morning, the packages:

liboverlay-scrollbar-1:0.2.16.r359daily13.02.06-105-x86_64 26,1 KiB 152K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
liboverlay-scrollbar3-1:0.2.16.r359daily13.02.06-105-x86_64 27,4 KiB 157K/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
(6/6) checking keys in keyring [####################################################] 100%
(6/6) checking package integrity [####################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

always say to be corrupted.

regards,

Mektub

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-27 19:24:49

EDIT: Fixed

Hi Mektub,

This bug is actually caused by dropbox and pacman with certain packages. I filed a bug here, so hopefully it will be fixed soon: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35506

For now, you can work around the issue by uncommenting the following in /etc/pacman.conf:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u

EDIT: Fixed

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2013-05-28 06:20:52)

divansantana · 2013-05-29 02:36:49

Hi Chen,

Firstly Unity-for-Arch is working great! Prefer it anyday to Unity on Ubuntu. Although the files lens is a great missing tool which I'm sure will be fixed sometime.

I noticed that this package is not installed - I think it's supposed to be however I can't install it.

% yaourt -Sl Unity-for-Arch|grep -v installed
==> Listing all packages in repo(s)
Unity-for-Arch/bamf 0.4.0daily13.05.02-102 (unity)

% yaourt -S Unity-for-Arch/bamf
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: bamf and libbamf3 are in conflict. Remove libbamf3? [y/N] y

Packages (2): libbamf3-0.4.0daily13.05.02-100 [removal] bamf-0.4.0daily13.05.02-102

Total Installed Size: 0.79 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.31 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [###############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [###############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [###############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###############################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
bamf: /usr/lib/bamf/bamfdaemon exists in filesystem
bamf: /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.ayatana.bamf.service exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

% pacman -Qo /usr/lib/bamf/bamfdaemon
/usr/lib/bamf/bamfdaemon is owned by bamfdaemon 0.4.0daily13.05.02-100

Is it correct that that package is not installed as I though all packages from Unity-for-Arch should be installed.

PS. This bug[1] disappeared a while ago in the Unity-for-Arch upgrades then appears it's way back about 3-4 weeks ago.
Any idea if it should be resolved? Ie guake/yakuake doesn't attach nicely to the top of the screen anymore.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … omments/20

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-29 04:46:11

Hi divansantana,

Glad you're still enjoying Unity on Arch

The new bamf package should replace both libbamf3 and bamfdaemon. Pacman should handle this correctly, but if it's not, just do this instead:

pacman -Rdd libbamf3 bamfdaemon
pacman -S bamf

As far as I'm aware, the fix for the guake bug was reverted because it was causing other issues with maximized windows. I'll check if guake has a problem in Ubuntu 13.04.

Btw, for the files lens, try installing my zeitgeist-compat package from the AUR

Mektub · 2013-05-29 05:49:33

chenxiaolong wrote:

EDIT: Fixed
Hi Mektub,
This bug is actually caused by dropbox and pacman with certain packages. I filed a bug here, so hopefully it will be fixed soon: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35506
For now, you can work around the issue by uncommenting the following in /etc/pacman.conf:
XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
EDIT: Fixed

chenxiaolong,

yes, that fixed it.

many many thanks,

Mektub

divansantana · 2013-05-29 23:07:13

chenxiaolong wrote:

Hi divansantana,
The new bamf package should replace both libbamf3 and bamfdaemon. Pacman should handle this correctly, but if it's not, just do this instead:
pacman -Rdd libbamf3 bamfdaemon
pacman -S bamf
As far as I'm aware, the fix for the guake bug was reverted because it was causing other issues with maximized windows. I'll check if guake has a problem in Ubuntu 13.04.

Btw, for the files lens, try installing my zeitgeist-compat package from the AUR

Ok all sorted. So happy to have the file lens working again! Thank you!

mythus · 2013-05-30 11:53:22

From my experience, tilda works flawless in Unity. That might be a good option for now until they get all the guake issues fixed.

Also it should be noted that yakuake also has a bug when displaying in Unity, the blank space between the top panel and the start of the terminal issue. But Tilda runs like it should in Unity.

mythus · 2013-05-30 13:22:12

SOLVED!

So I have decided to try out Unity for Arch again today, been a little while since I've tried it, but I have played with the latest Unity offered on Ubuntu 13.04.

Is there a problem with the xe-xe repo? Maybe it is out of date? I am asking because I get the only wallpaper and cursor issue. I am able to start a console with CTRL ALT T, and tilda starts right away as well, so I am able to start things like firefox and ccsm and the like through that. However I am unable to start the Unity plugin, and the PNG plugin.

Here's some info:

 ldd /usr/lib/compiz/libimgpng.so
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff4f2d7000)
	libpng15.so.15 => not found
	libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20130125 => /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20130125 (0x00007f560de25000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f560db21000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f560d90a000)
	libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f560d55d000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f560d224000)
	libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007f560d019000)
	libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00007f560ce16000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f560cc03000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f560c9e6000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00007f560c7de000)
	libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 (0x00007f560c571000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f560c272000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f560c06c000)
	libstartup-notification-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 (0x00007f560be63000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f560bc46000)
	libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f560ba42000)
	libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f560b744000)
	/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f560e32e000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f560b524000)
	libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f560b319000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f560b114000)
	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f560aec4000)
	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f560acc0000)
	libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f560aa5d000)
	libxcb-util.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-util.so.1 (0x00007f560a857000)
	libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x00007f560a655000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f560a451000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f560a24a000)
	libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f560a042000)

~/.xsession-errors

XIO:  fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0"
      after 3115 requests (3115 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I solved the issue. After reading my post I noticed that I was missing libpng15. I installed that, reset compiz, and logged out and back in and *poof* it works now.

Last edited by mythus (2013-05-30 13:44:12)

divansantana · 2013-05-30 22:22:34

chenxiaolong wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the fix for the guake bug was reverted because it was causing other issues with maximized windows. I'll check if guake has a problem in Ubuntu 13.04.

Ok so confirmed that 13.04 has the same bug.

sollidsnake · 2013-05-31 02:11:26

My gtk applications (gnome do, pidgin, gtk-recordmydesktop etc) are using the system tray instead of appearing as an indicator. Is this suppose to happen or there's something wrong with my installation?

~/ pacman -Sql Unity-for-Arch | grep indicat
indicator-applet
indicator-application
indicator-appmenu
indicator-bluetooth
indicator-datetime
indicator-messages
indicator-power
indicator-printers
indicator-session
indicator-sound
libappindicator
libappindicator3
libindicate
libindicate-gtk2
libindicate-gtk3
libindicate-qt
libindicator
libindicator3

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-31 06:38:09

sollidsnake wrote:

My gtk applications (gnome do, pidgin, gtk-recordmydesktop etc) are using the system tray instead of appearing as an indicator. Is this suppose to happen or there's something wrong with my installation?
~/ pacman -Sql Unity-for-Arch | grep indicat
indicator-applet
indicator-application
indicator-appmenu
indicator-bluetooth
indicator-datetime
indicator-messages
indicator-power
indicator-printers
indicator-session
indicator-sound
libappindicator
libappindicator3
libindicate
libindicate-gtk2
libindicate-gtk3
libindicate-qt
libindicator
libindicator3

If you want any program's tray icon to be an indicator, you'll need to recompile the source code with Ubuntu's patches

CReimer · 2013-05-31 13:10:38

For Archlinux I think it's better to not care about indicators.
We should better enable normal tray icons as City-Busz already did. https://github.com/City-busz/ayatana-re … ings.patch

oi_wtf · 2013-05-31 21:10:15

CReimer,
they are enabled, read carefully... solidsnake wrote: ...are using the system tray instead of appearing as an indicator...
so "normal" tray icons are showing up, he just wanted them to be indicators.

EDIT:
btw, lightdm-ubuntu and lightdm-unity-greeter are affected by this: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 25003.html

Last edited by oi_wtf (2013-05-31 22:45:30)

sollidsnake · 2013-05-31 22:09:45

chenxiaolong wrote:

If you want any program's tray icon to be an indicator, you'll need to recompile the source code with Ubuntu's patches

I see... I guess I'll just keep using the system tray for now

darkjack · 2013-06-03 04:43:07

I fixed lightdm not starting up at boot by editing /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service. I changed the ExecStart line to ExecStart=usr/bin/lightdm

I'm not sure that this is the most correct way to do this, but hey, it works for now.

jrussell · 2013-06-03 07:53:52

darkjack wrote:

I fixed lightdm not starting up at boot by editing /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service. I changed the ExecStart line to ExecStart=usr/bin/lightdm
I'm not sure that this is the most correct way to do this, but hey, it works for now.

You shouldn't have to do that,

I think, backup and delete that file and do:

systemctl disable {all display managers }
systemctl enable lightdm.service

For consistency if you want
That should just work.

oi_wtf · 2013-06-03 21:05:27

it should be enough to pass --sbindir=/usr/bin to configure in the PKGBUILD, the correct path will be inserted into the lightdm.service file when building lightdm.
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service is a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service anyway, so there's no need to disable and enable

Last edited by oi_wtf (2013-06-03 21:08:06)

jrussell · 2013-06-03 22:04:53

oi_wtf wrote:

it should be enough to pass --sbindir=/usr/bin to configure in the PKGBUILD, the correct path will be inserted into the lightdm.service file when building lightdm.
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service is a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service anyway, so there's no need to disable and enable

I thought he had enabled another display manager and then just edited display-manager.service to point to lightdm

There is no problem with the lightdm service file or PKGBUILD to me

chenxiaolong · 2013-06-03 22:57:11

I updated the lightdm package to use /usr/bin as sbindir yesterday. A quick grep shows that there are no other instances of "sbin" in the code. Maybe something else is causing the issue?

Btw, if anyone is using plymouth with LightDM, that will be broken for sure.

gadelat · 2013-06-05 09:10:46

Problem 1)
My background is not shown (instead it's shown as black) and it does not redraw correctly. Pic:

It does show for split second when I logout, though. I don't know how long there is this problem since I used gnome 3 for last few weeks.

Problem 2)
Maximizing libreoffice windows does not work correctly, most of all it does not hide title bar.

What's even weirder is that when i un-maximize it and maximize it again, it shows title bar which was before PLUS new titlebar. This can be repeated infinite times.

In these pics there is terminal maximized under libreoffice writer window,

AlexRu · 2013-06-05 09:27:04

I have two questions:

1) How to switch input layouts? As i can see settings are different to ubuntu, i have only ibus icon in tray and i couldnt set it to use alt+shift shortcut. And it doesnt switch layout in fullscreen apps. How do u switch layouts?
2) Cpufreq indicator shows only two options - powersave and perfomance. Some extra settings or package needed?

Edit: I set Settings->Keyboard->Typing->"Modifiers-only switch to next source" to alt-shift, it is working, but not in full screen apps

Last edited by AlexRu (2013-06-05 09:47:42)

sollidsnake · 2013-06-05 12:13:56

gadelat wrote:

Problem 1)
My background is not shown (instead it's shown as black) and it does not redraw correctly. Pic:
http://storage5.static.itmages.com/i/13/0605/s_1370422934_7332407_9033a4cd32.png
It does show for split second when I logout, though. I don't know how long there is this problem since I used gnome 3 for last few weeks.
Problem 2)
Maximizing libreoffice windows does not work correctly, most of all it does not hide title bar.
http://storage4.static.itmages.com/i/13/0605/s_1370422887_9712289_bd411adc6a.png
What's even weirder is that when i un-maximize it and maximize it again, it shows title bar which was before PLUS new titlebar. This can be repeated infinite times.
http://storage5.static.itmages.com/i/13/0605/s_1370423215_7824807_420a662064.png
In these pics there is terminal maximized under libreoffice writer window,

Problem 1
That happens because you don't have any file manager handling the desktop. Try enabling the option "Have file manager handle the desktop" in gnome tweak tool and make sure you have nautilus installed and running.

Problem 2
For programs that don't hide the title bar when fullscreen, try adding

!state=maxvert

in Window Decoration > Decoration Windows of ccsm.

Last edited by sollidsnake (2013-06-05 12:15:27)

gadelat · 2013-06-05 12:48:39

Problem one solved, previously I uninstalled nautilus since i like nemo better. Problem 2, not so much because I don't know correct full rule. If I replace current value "any" with "!state=maxvert" in Decoration Windows settings, it changes nothing. If I replace it with "state=maxvert", then all windows loses title bars which is not optimal. With this option there is no glitches with maximizing/minimizing libreoffice though. Are you sure "state" is correct value? It's not listed between types in select-box when you are adding rule by plus sign. Also, I'm not sure what is "grab" button supposed to do (i guess it's for selecting which window i want rule to apply?), but it doesn't do anything in my case.

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