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Hallo friends.
I have made experiences in Sabayon and Gentoo also. Here I have installed VideoWallpapers for my Plasma 5.14.4.
On Sunday, 9th of Dec. (two days ago) I could easily install your ARCH OS with base base-devel and plasma on a laptop with core i7 and 480 GByte SSD.
This went fast despite the fact that I always have hard trouble with German settings, especially locale. This part took most of my time.
And then after installing some more packages (vivaldi, kate, mc and some more) I have a fine, fast booting ARCH OS with Plasma.
I'm using animated Video Wallpapers on my Sabayon and my Gentoo also. Now I wanted to realize Video Wallpapers for my Arch Plasma also.
As suggested in your post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=239407 I followed your suggestions including installation of all gstreamer and gstreamer like packages.
I also downloaded this VideoWallpaper package from store.kde.org: https://store.kde.org/p/1213488/
I installed as adviced with kpackagemanager:
kpackagetool5 -t Plasma/Wallpaper -i VideoWallpaper.tar.gz
And finally, I have an mp4 video for animate in background.
Ok, next step was to change background then. I right clicked onto my empty desktop and then Setup Desktop. Here I could choose Layout --> Video Wallpaper which now appeared to select.
But in that moment when I clicked on Video Wallpaper I received an error which is:
Error: Could not load: file://home/linuxfluesterer/.local/share/plasma/wallpapers/VideoWallpaper/contents/ui/config.qml:24
plugin cannot be loaded for module "QtMultimedia": Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/qt/qml/QtMultimedia/libdeclarative_multimedia.so'
I have checked for the path and the file:
//home/linuxfluesterer/.local/share/plasma/wallpapers/VideoWallpaper/contents/ui/config.qml:24
Path and file exist, so there must be something wrong with QtMultimedia
I have installed pacman -S qt5-multimedia also.
So, any idea what I could do here?
Thank you very much in advance.
-Linuxfluesterer
Last edited by Linuxfluesterer (2018-12-11 19:22:03)
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It seems like it's referring to line 24 of config.qml.
Can you maybe post that file? Also do you have plugins.qmltypes at /usr/lib/qt/qml/QtMultimedia/?
These are just my guesses on how to proceed.
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It seems like it's referring to line 24 of config.qml.
Can you maybe post that file? Also do you have plugins.qmltypes at /usr/lib/qt/qml/QtMultimedia/?
These are just my guesses on how to proceed.
Oh, thank you for reply.
In between I had another problem with installing another set of packages, VirtualBox plus modules, which also brought error messages like "invalid exec format". I searched for a solution, which said, one has to upgrade any ARCH with pacman -Suy. This solved my problem with VirtualBox (the modules werde loaded now), and, surprisingly, after trying VideoWallpapers again (just an idea), I got a working animated background with the selected mp4 video file.
It seems, upgrading ARCH OS is far more important than e.g. in Sabayon. I learned something important!
But, sadly, I still have a sound problem. No sound available with ARCH OS, though with Manjaro live system I have checked with.
Thank you for joining.
-Linuxfluesterer
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Yes upgrading is important in Arch and more or less done everyday. For sound perhaps you can begin here.
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Yes upgrading is important in Arch and more or less done everyday. For sound perhaps you can begin here.
Oh, thank you for the hint with alsa
I found the (I assume) solutione by another way. I assumed that not all kernel modules needed were loaded with my customized /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file.
Here I had the section MODULES extended with snd_hda_intel which seems to exclude some other needed kernel modules.
So, I simply deleted the special intel snd module and instead listed snd as module name.
I recompiled with:
mkinitcpio -p linux
and voilá, the sound was activated.
Good night to all here!
-Linuxfluesterer
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