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daimon00

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Registered: 2011-02-18

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Unity in Arch?

Is it possible to install Unity in Arch?
And any other small-screen optimized Desktops?
I have an Asus EEE 901 and I installed gnome, but some big windows get out of the screen.

Thank you in advance

minasmorath

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Registered: 2009-11-24

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Re: Unity in Arch?

A quick look through the AUR and pacman's package list turns up nothing related to Unity, so I'm willing to bet your only options are converting their (Canonical's) deb file to .tar.xz format, or the better method, compiling from source. It shouldn't be too bad, the Ubuntu guys have progressed greatly in making distro-portable software.

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lifeafter2am

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Ever thought of giving a tiling WM a try?  They are great for netbooks and huge screens. 

**Extremely biased opinion!** 

My point is maybe try some different WM's out, you might find something else you like.

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ANOKNUSA

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Re: Unity in Arch?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99746

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hellnest

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Re: Unity in Arch?

A quick look through the AUR and pacman's package list turns up nothing related to Unity, so I'm willing to bet your only options are converting their (Canonical's) deb file to .tar.xz format, or the better method, compiling from source. It shouldn't be too bad, the Ubuntu guys have progressed greatly in making distro-portable software.

Mitch

Unity package is exist in AUR, i don't know how you use AUR search fetaure. Typing unity inside the box and it will bring a ported canonical project in list

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jelly

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Remember that you can only use Unity with an intel video card iirc, for nvidia users it's useless

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Remember that you can only use Unity with an intel video card iirc, for nvidia users it's useless

Huh, what ? I'm the contributor of the unity package, i test it whenever I can and ... I do have a nvidia card (using the closed driver)

falconindy

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Remember that you can only use Unity with an intel video card iirc, for nvidia users it's useless

The switch to unity is unrelated to wayland.

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daimon00

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Registered: 2011-02-18

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Ok, thank you very much for the answers. I think I will firstly give a try at tiling WM. If I'm not fully convinced, I'll try unity.

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Some sideinfo about unity:
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ … 91341.html
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/U … 56110.html

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xovertheyearsx

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Re: Unity in Arch?

Is it possible to install Unity in Arch?
And any other small-screen optimized Desktops?
I have an Asus EEE 901 and I installed gnome, but some big windows get out of the screen.

Thank you in advance

They have a set up for virtual software, im sure if you have enough knowledge base you could tweak the code to work in the actual OS environs.

Enable Unity

Unity is installed by default, but needs a bit of work to get it running.
First,make sure that open-vm-tools is installed and loaded on startup.(If needed add open-vm-tools to the DAEMONS list)

Next, add vmware-user-suid-wrapper to autostart either by using your desktop environment's autostart or create a file like ~/.config/autostart/vmware-user-agent.desktop with following contents:

"
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=VMWare User Agent
Exec=vmware-user-suid-wrapper
Icon=system-run
Comment=Enable Unity, DnD, etc.
"

Log out and restart. Unity will work.

Unfortunately at the moment, menus may not display properly, so launch a terminal, switch to Unity and use the terminal to launch whatever you want.
If you get an error like "error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

install gtkmm

"
pacman -S gtkmm
"

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _in_VMware