Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

ewaller · 2013-11-16 15:39:43

Those are just warnings. Does the tool not work?, or are you looking for clean output?

horsemanoffaith · 2013-11-17 05:34:44

ewaller wrote:

Those are just warnings. Does the tool not work?, or are you looking for clean output?

The tool does work, but only in a limited sense. I can change the window themes, but changing the GTK+ themes and the icon themes do nothing. Also, when I switch items on the left side of the screen, there are large portions of the window that you can "see" through to the window behind it. I really do not understand why my theme changes on its own in the first place. I've never had a problem with the themes changing once I've set them.

oi_wtf · 2013-11-17 22:36:29

horsemanoffaith wrote:

Obviously the shell isn't running... I would assume this would be the gnome-shell that Unity runs on. Any recommendations to fix it?

Yeah, that's right the shell is not running, but because you're running Unity.
The "errors" here refer to the GNOME Shell, which is, obviously, cannot be running when using Unity.
It's got nothing to do with the Themes though, so it's save to ignore them.

The theme-settings' "resetting" is more likely a problem related to the gnome-settings-daemon, since it's responsible for storing and "enforcing" those settings.

Last edited by oi_wtf (2013-11-17 22:52:42)

horsemanoffaith · 2013-11-18 03:36:53

oi_wtf wrote:

Yeah, that's right the shell is not running, but because you're running Unity.
The "errors" here refer to the GNOME Shell, which is, obviously, cannot be running when using Unity.
It's got nothing to do with the Themes though, so it's save to ignore them.
The theme-settings' "resetting" is more likely a problem related to the gnome-settings-daemon, since it's responsible for storing and "enforcing" those settings.

Could it be possible that I'm having these problems because I have other DE's installed? I did a fresh install of Arch not too long ago, but long enough ago that Chen hadn't released Unity for Arch w/Gnome 3.10. I installed the Gnome 3.10 desktop, but got so irritated with it (I REALLY do not like the Gnome 3 desktop) that I installed Cinnamon and used it until Chen announced Unity was up and running. Looking in my cache, I see both gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu installed on my system... since I have both Gnome 3.10 AND Unity installed I am wondering if both files are installed and they are conflicting with one another. If that's true, I'll just do a fresh install and ditch Gnome 3.10.

Thanks for your help, Oi and ewaller!

oi_wtf · 2013-11-18 22:31:51

no, there shouldn't any complications caused by other DE's,
I've got a few installed myself and hadn't had any serious problems.
Other than Unity I've got GNOME3, KDE, Xfce4, Cinnamon, MATE and Awesome.

I'm pretty sure gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu are conflicting each other.
If they're both installed you've some serious dependency problems and those are probably the cause of your issue.

gianluca.pettinello · 2013-11-20 20:49:09

gianluca.pettinello wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
horsemanoffaith wrote:
Chen, I see here that you say unity-lens-applications is working for you. Any ideas as to why would mine be empty? There is nothing in my applications lens, even when I type in what I want. What's strange is my unity-lens-files that the two of you say is not working is working fine for me. BTW, I'm having a segmentation fault the same as gianluca.pettinello. Here's the code:
[mikearch1@mikearchlaptop ~]$ unity-scope-loader commands.scope
Error loading package indexes: Couldn't stat '/var/cache/software-center/xapian'

(unity-scope-loader:3064): unity-applications-daemon-CRITICAL **: daemon.vala:144: Failed to load Software Center 
index. 'Apps Available for Download' will not be listed

(unity-scope-loader:3064): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_path_get_basename: assertion 'file_name != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Just checked my /var/cache files... there is no software-center file. Is there a file that I've not downloaded?
I'll probably do a clean install of Arch this weekend. I have messed with so many packages that it could be something that I installed that keeps things working. By the way, here is my output. I don't think the missing files are the issue:
WARNING: ~/.zshrc differs from /stuff/chenxiaolong/Configuration/zshrc
[jf-common] unity-scope-loader commands.scope                       1:16:41  ☁  d4c40b9 ☀
Error loading package indexes: Couldn't stat '/var/cache/software-center/xapian'

(unity-scope-loader:31117): unity-applications-daemon-CRITICAL **: daemon.vala:144: Failed to load Software Center index. 'Apps Available for Download' will not be listed
Just to be clear my unity-lens-files works after I copied zeitgeist-fts. Unity-lens-applications doesn't work and gives me segmentation fault

Eureka!!
After some days unity-lens-applications works again!!! And I didn't touch any Unity package!! I suspect that, while updating, the system ran:
/usr/bin/update-desktop-database
/usr/bin/update-mime-database
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
and this fixed something in unity-lens-applications

In any case, being an engineer my motto is: it works, that's enough!
But my love for science obliges me to understand. Please could you check if these commands helps you?

gianluca.pettinello · 2013-11-22 22:09:29

Chen,
I saw that you just updated Unity and now Calendar and Sound are now working!
Now gnome 3.10.2 doesn't allow to dim backlight with hotkeys if the degree of dimming are les than 10. I found a patch for mutter, gnome-desktop and gnome-settings-daemon. I applied on gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu and everything compiled well. Gnome is now dimming down and up the backlght with the hotkeys. But Unity no. Do I have to recompile some more packages depending on gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu?

mieLouk · 2013-11-24 10:27:54

How can I circumvent this safely?

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: libdbusmenu-gtk3: requires libdbusmenu-glib=12.10.3daily13.09.13

qiuwei · 2013-11-24 14:26:41

mieLouk wrote:

How can I circumvent this safely?

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: libdbusmenu-gtk3: requires libdbusmenu-glib=12.10.3daily13.09.13

run

pacman -S pacman -S Unity-for-Arch/libdbusmenu-glib Unity-for-Arch/libdbusmenu-gtk2 Unity-for-Arch/libdbusmenu-gtk3

first. Unity-for-Arch is the repo name you gave to Chen's repo.
Then run

pacman -Syu

mieLouk · 2013-11-24 17:07:33

run
pacman -S Unity-for-Arch/libdbusmenu-glib Unity-for-Arch/libdbusmenu-gtk2 Unity-for-Arch/libdbusmenu-gtk3
first. Unity-for-Arch is the repo name you gave to Chen's repo.
Then run
pacman -Syu

Qiuwei, thank you very much!

qiuwei · 2013-11-25 15:42:45

Since chenxiaolong hasn't mentioned it here, I confirm that the latest update in his repo already makes all indicators work properly. But, globalmenu is still broken.
Thanks, chen!

majia7 · 2013-11-27 07:30:30

I got a error message when compile gnome-control-center-ubuntu

  CC       libkeyboard_la-keyboard-general.lo
  CC       libkeyboard_la-keyboard-shortcuts.lo
keyboard-shortcuts.c: In function 'setup_dialog':
keyboard-shortcuts.c:1748:62: error: 'GTK_CELL_RENDERER_ACCEL_MODE_MODIFIER_TAP' undeclared (first use in this function)
                                                 "accel-mode", GTK_CELL_RENDERER_ACCEL_MODE_MODIFIER_TAP,

gianluca.pettinello · 2013-11-27 19:49:08

majia7 wrote:

I got a error message when compile gnome-control-center-ubuntu

  CC       libkeyboard_la-keyboard-general.lo
  CC       libkeyboard_la-keyboard-shortcuts.lo
keyboard-shortcuts.c: In function 'setup_dialog':
keyboard-shortcuts.c:1748:62: error: 'GTK_CELL_RENDERER_ACCEL_MODE_MODIFIER_TAP' undeclared (first use in this function)
                                                 "accel-mode", GTK_CELL_RENDERER_ACCEL_MODE_MODIFIER_TAP,

Me too, had to remove patch 54 from ubuntu series

chenxiaolong · 2013-11-29 03:27:22

qiuwei wrote:

Since chenxiaolong hasn't mentioned it here, I confirm that the latest update in his repo already makes all indicators work properly. But, globalmenu is still broken.
Thanks, chen!

You're welcome

I have no idea why the globalmenu is broken. I hope it gets fixed soon, but I doubt it will. I don't think Ubuntu will upgrade to a new GNOME release for an LTS release.

qiuwei · 2013-11-29 17:19:54

You're welcome
I have no idea why the globalmenu is broken. I hope it gets fixed soon, but I doubt it will. I don't think Ubuntu will upgrade to a new GNOME release for an LTS release.

One new problem I've encountered is that all the indicators may crash occasionally after the update.
Not sure what caused that.

horsemanoffaith · 2013-11-30 06:10:34

Okay, this is really irritating me. I JUST did a fresh install of Arch with Unity to (hopefully) get rid of the problem that I was having with my desktop settings resetting to default. This is the second time that I've booted into my fresh install, and it has reset to the default GNOME 3 settings on it's own. I saw that oi_wtf said that this has something to do with gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu. How do I fix this??? It's driving me CRAZY!!!! I REALLY REALLY want my Radiance setting back!!! Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. When my settings change to the GNOME defaults, gnome-tweak-tool does something really funky... basically, anywhere there's just a blank background in the gnome-tweak-tool window, you can see "through" the window to the window beneath it. I'm pretty sure the problems are related... any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

qiuwei · 2013-12-10 14:17:41

Good news.
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/gtk-310- … -tahr.html

chenxiaolong · 2013-12-10 20:46:45

qiuwei wrote:

Good news.
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/gtk-310- … -tahr.html

I was just about to post that I'll see what I can do about it today. Hopefully I won't need to update the whole stack to the Ubuntu 14.04 versions...

chenxiaolong · 2013-12-11 06:54:04

Global menus are fixed! GTK 3.10 does not work with the Ubuntu 13.10 Unity stack so I had to upgrade all of the packages to the 14.04 versions. Most of the packages have already been built and pushed to the repo. Only Unity is left: http://jenkins.cxl.epac.to/job/UFA-2.0- … 57/console

Get ready to "pacman -Syu"

darkshines · 2013-12-11 13:34:15

@chenxiaolong: Have you noticed, that the package unity-tweak-tool in extras is empty?

darkshines · 2013-12-11 14:16:07

Another question: Did anyone of you get the dropbox indicator icon to show up?

Last edited by darkshines (2013-12-12 10:54:20)

horsemanoffaith · 2013-12-12 04:29:38

This isn't specifically a Unity issue, but it happened right after the upgrade to gtk-3.10, and there was discussion of that here, so I figured I can ask... If I need to create a new topic, I'm more than happy to do so. After I did my update with gtk-3.10, evolution has stopped working. Here's the error:

 evolution: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-3.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdk_wayland_display_get_type

Any suggestions? I have searched Google, but there is nothing about evolution and gdk_wayland.

serdotlinecho · 2013-12-13 13:40:40

darkshines wrote:

@chenxiaolong: Have you noticed, that the package unity-tweak-tool in extras is empty?

Yeah, me too. I already did sudo updatedb, still cannot find unity-tweak-tool path? :\

serdotlinecho · 2013-12-13 14:24:33

Has anyone tried light-locker on Unity for Arch? Does it work?

Last edited by serdotlinecho (2013-12-13 14:27:25)

darkshines · 2013-12-13 20:19:04

@dotfiles: Well cloning from git@github.com:freyja-dev/unity-tweak-tool.git and simply running the tweak tool from there works.

Last edited by darkshines (2013-12-13 20:19:34)

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