Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-27 19:45:26

oi_wtf wrote:

use gnome-tweak-tool,
I don't see any reason why only ambiance &co. are shown in unitys appearance, though...
the theme's files are apparently no different from any other theme.

It's hardcoded

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-27 20:04:39

New updates are currently building This update fixes the Alt + Tab lag on some Intel GPUs (such as my Intel Sandy Bridge HD3000) and also the launcher sensitivity with libxi >= 1.7. The sensitivity can be set back to the default now: http://i.imgur.com/lfqI7vm.png

divansantana · 2013-07-27 22:34:44

When launching gnome-control-center and clicking on "Time & Date" it crashes. Does this occur for anyone else?

% gnome-control-center                                                                                                                                                                                             :(

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher gufw (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher landscape-client-settings (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher language-selector (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher software-properties-gtk (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher ubuntuone-installer (missing desktop file)
[1]    8774 segmentation fault (core dumped)  gnome-control-center

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-27 23:37:27

divansantana wrote:

When launching gnome-control-center and clicking on "Time & Date" it crashes. Does this occur for anyone else?

% gnome-control-center                                                                                                                                                                                             :(

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher gufw (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher landscape-client-settings (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher language-selector (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher software-properties-gtk (missing desktop file)

** (gnome-control-center:8774): WARNING **: Ignoring launcher ubuntuone-installer (missing desktop file)
[1]    8774 segmentation fault (core dumped)  gnome-control-center

Ubuntu hasn't finished (even started?) porting their time and date settings to GNOME Control Center 3.8. At the moment, it will only work with 3.6. I have a feeling that they're going to skip 3.8 and go straight to GNOME 3.10, so that might be broken for a while

oi_wtf · 2013-07-29 14:52:17

unity fails in prepare() when trying to patch CMakeLists.txt with 0001_Remove_gtest.patch ...

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-29 14:58:13

oi_wtf wrote:

unity fails in prepare() when trying to patch CMakeLists.txt with 0001_Remove_gtest.patch ...

Try removing src/ and pkg/. I'm having no issues here: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/job/UFA-2.0-Bui … onsoleFull

I'm gonna go try again.

EDIT: It seems to work just fine on my computer. You're building from the master branch, right?

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2013-07-29 15:00:33)

agszepp · 2013-07-29 15:55:57

Hi, I just installed Arch Linux and I installed Unity-for-Arch and Unity-for-Arch-Extra from the Dropbox repository. Whenever I type startx, Unity looks ugly and I can't see what I'm doing in a terminal that I open. Here's a picture of what I am experiencing: http://agoston.tk/Unity.png. How do I fix this? Also, thank you all for your hard work who have contributed to this project.

HalosGhost · 2013-07-29 16:00:59

agszepp wrote:

Hi, I just installed Arch Linux and I installed Unity-for-Arch and Unity-for-Arch-Extra from the Dropbox repository. Whenever I type startx, Unity looks ugly and I can't see what I'm doing in a terminal that I open. Here's a picture of what I am experiencing: http://agoston.tk/Unity.png. How do I fix this? Also, thank you all for your hard work who have contributed to this project.

I'm not really part of the unity effort, but this post intrigued me. What's wrong in that picture exactly? [Edit]: Oh, nevermind me. I imagine you're referring to the lack of gtk theming happening.

All the best,

-HG

Last edited by HalosGhost (2013-07-29 16:02:00)

agszepp · 2013-07-29 16:11:23

HalosGhost wrote:

I'm not really part of the unity effort, but this post intrigued me. What's wrong in that picture exactly? [Edit]: Oh, nevermind me. I imagine you're referring to the lack of gtk theming happening.

If it's the theme, then how can I fix it? The terminal's just a black screen when I open it up. Is there a way to fix this too?

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-29 16:28:23

agszepp wrote:

Hi, I just installed Arch Linux and I installed Unity-for-Arch and Unity-for-Arch-Extra from the Dropbox repository. Whenever I type startx, Unity looks ugly and I can't see what I'm doing in a terminal that I open. Here's a picture of what I am experiencing: http://agoston.tk/Unity.png. How do I fix this? Also, thank you all for your hard work who have contributed to this project.

Can you post your ~/.xinitrc script? If you run just "unity", the theme will not be applied and the problem you see will appear.

Thanks!

agszepp · 2013-07-29 16:41:54

I uploaded my .xinitrc file to http://agoston.tk/.xinitrc. What do I have to put in there to fix the problem?

oi_wtf · 2013-07-29 16:44:32

chenxiaolong wrote:

oi_wtf wrote:
unity fails in prepare() when trying to patch CMakeLists.txt with 0001_Remove_gtest.patch ...
Try removing src/ and pkg/. I'm having no issues here: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/job/UFA-2.0-Bui … onsoleFull
I'm gonna go try again.
EDIT: It seems to work just fine on my computer. You're building from the master branch, right?

Yes, I was on master... and I (well, my script actually...) always deletes src/ and pkg/ ...
latest commit(s) fixed the issue, though...

@agszepp make sure gnome-settings-daemon is somehow started, normally gnome-session would take care of that, so if you're not using that, you'll have to do it manually...

EDIT: or you could add 'gnome-session --session=ubuntu' to that xinitrc of yours...

Last edited by oi_wtf (2013-07-29 16:46:28)

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-29 16:45:11

agszepp wrote:

I uploaded my .xinitrc file to http://agoston.tk/.xinitrc. What do I have to put in there to fix the problem?

Would you mind copying and pasting it here on the forums? Your website is blocked here for some reason

As for the command, try using:

gnome-session --session=ubuntu

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-29 16:46:17

oi_wtf wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
oi_wtf wrote:
unity fails in prepare() when trying to patch CMakeLists.txt with 0001_Remove_gtest.patch ...
Try removing src/ and pkg/. I'm having no issues here: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/job/UFA-2.0-Bui … onsoleFull
I'm gonna go try again.
EDIT: It seems to work just fine on my computer. You're building from the master branch, right?
Yes, I was on master... and I (well, my script actually...) always deletes src/ and pkg/ ...
latest commit(s) fixed the issue, though...

@agszepp make sure gnome-settings-daemon is somehow started, normally gnome-session would take care of that, so if you're not using that, you'll have to do it manually...

Yeah, I just merged a pull request fixing that. I need to remember to test the builds when check() is disabled...

agszepp · 2013-07-29 17:09:04

chenxiaolong wrote:

Would you mind copying and pasting it here on the forums? Your website is blocked here for some reason

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
exec unity

So do I add gnome-session --session=ubuntu on the line after exec unity?

tydell · 2013-07-29 17:23:54

nope, try

exec gnome-session --session=ubuntu

previously i had 'exec unity' too and it worked for me

HalosGhost · 2013-07-29 17:34:42

agszepp wrote:

things

In the future, please use code blocks, like the following:

 Code tags are your friends!

All the best,

-HG

agszepp · 2013-07-29 18:01:31

Thanks, I now it looks normal, but how do I get rid of the menu on Firefox so it only shows up when I hover above the Global Menu? The wiki says to install metacity-ubuntu, but that's installed. Also where the some images (like the power button and some on the Unity Tweak Tool) don't show up; they just have a little red image instead. How do I fix these things?

chenxiaolong · 2013-07-29 18:57:09

agszepp wrote:

Thanks, I now it looks normal, but how do I get rid of the menu on Firefox so it only shows up when I hover above the Global Menu? The wiki says to install metacity-ubuntu, but that's installed. Also where the some images (like the power button and some on the Unity Tweak Tool) don't show up; they just have a little red image instead. How do I fix these things?

Firefox no longer has a global menu extension. In order to get a global menu, Firefox needs to be rebuilt from the source code, unfortunately. You can disable the menu and use the Firefox button instead.

For the icons, just use Unity Tweak Tool and change the icon theme to Ubuntu-mono-dark

Thaodan · 2013-07-29 20:41:12

there's a patch for for this which could even applied to the offical packages without issues see here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/globalmenu-e … ug/1195380

Drumitar · 2013-07-31 23:42:33

can someone please give me the step to install what you guys are using from a clean install

threeofsix · 2013-08-01 01:53:33

Hello all! I just started trying to run unity on arch, and can't get past the login screen. I think this issue has been mentioned before, but I can't seem to get it worked out.. The login screen shows up just fine, but after that, all I get is a black screen with a mouse cursor. I installed from unity.xe-xe.org, along with lightdm-ubuntu and lightdm-unity-greeter, if that helps. I also tried starting it by modifying my .xinitrc and running startx, but I get the same result.

Any suggestions?

Thank you! If there are any specific error logs that would be useful, I'm happy to post them!

Slovenijakp · 2013-08-01 09:51:12

Here are my guesses (I had unity broken many times, but I fixed it).

Try logging in as a guest, sometimes it works in the clean user account.
(If it does, don't do the steps written down. Just do compiz.reset or rename .cache, .config, .compiz)

Have you tried to reset compiz? Maybe that will help. Reset it with

 compiz.reset

If it doesn't, try to update all packages (pacman -Syu). This helps sometimes.
And it may start working if you'd used dropbox repository.
In /etc/pacman.conf, comment the unity repositories and paste this:

[Unity-for-Arch]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/486665/Repos/Unity-for-Arch/$arch

[Unity-for-Arch-Extra] 
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll 
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/486665/Repos/Unity-for-Arch-Extra/$arch

Then do

# pacman -Suy
# pacman -S $(pacman -Slq Unity-for-Arch)

If it won't work after reseting compiz and updating packages, please post .xsession-errors, which are located at ~ (your home directory)

Hope you get unity working

Last edited by Slovenijakp (2013-08-01 09:55:40)

Slovenijakp · 2013-08-01 09:53:07

Drumitar wrote:

can someone please give me the step to install what you guys are using from a clean install

Arch wiki has got it covered.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unity

zdeezy · 2013-08-01 10:31:20

I seem to be having an issue with my install. I've built from the repository and done a manual build. They both work the exact same, everything seems to be working as far as the desktop goes, I just don't have the launcher. I've tried searching for the past few hours and rebuilt and reinstalled everything, even done a completely fresh install from scratch. Is there something I'm missing, or am I just being dumb? I just built with the build-and-install.py script.

Arch Linux

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