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Re: [gnome-flashback] Issues starting GNOME Flashback 3.16 jhbuild sessions

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 12:52 -0500, Michael DePaulo wrote:

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:



On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>
wrote:


On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:



On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>
wrote:


On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:



On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Michael DePaulo
<mikedep333 gmail com>
wrote:


On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Michael DePaulo
<mikedep333 gmail com>
wrote:

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:

Looks like metacity is problem. It fails to find 'window' and
'gtk-missing-image'.

Could you try by patching metacity?
https://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/tree/src/ui/ui.c#n599

Change 'gtk-missing-image' to 'image-missing'. Or remove

Maybe you have missing something installed? How did you build
flashback
session?


Via jhbuild. I assume that these failed modules are not a problem
unless you need epiphany.

*** the following modules were not built *** [177/177]
WebKit epiphany meta-gnome-core-utilities meta-gnome-core

Anyway, we're making more progress!

After I installed this package:
gnome-icon-theme-legacy-3.12.0-2.fc21.noarch

I then got this as my flashback metacity session:
http://imgur.com/gmt2wwt

The bottom panel seems to respond to mouse clicks. For example, I
can
left-click or right-click on the workspace switcher, and it
behaves
as
it should.

I then installed these packages, but they did not seem to help.

gnome-icon-theme-extras-3.12.0-2.fc21.noarch
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.12.0-2.fc21.noarch

I've attached my user log after installing all 3 packages.

And I've updated the WIP wiki page about gnome-icon-theme-legacy.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback/JHBuild/3.16

-Mike


Hurray! I fixed it by running this command to reset the gnome-panel
settings:

jhbuild run dconf reset -f /org/gnome/gnome-panel/

This is what a metacity session looks like now:
http://imgur.com/WPctaoQ,YOPM467#1
http://imgur.com/WPctaoQ,YOPM467#0



:)


From a development perspective, I guess the next step is to find out
why XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is being set to GNOME.



Did you try add back ShowOnlyIn? It did not start because metacity
was
crashing...


I've attached the log output from when I added it back.



Well problem found! You need to add DesktopNames to your custom desktop
files for starting jhbuild session.

In your gnome-flashback-[metacity/compiz]-jhbuild.desktop (xsession file
)add this:
DesktopNames=GNOME-Flashback;GNOME

Please update wiki and add message that DesktopNames line is important!


I verified this and updated the wiki.



Please add trailing semicolon to DesktopNames.


Done.







Also, the compiz session still results in the fail whale. I'll send
another reply about that.


This is embarassing. Compiz was not installed. I just installed it
from Fedora and yet I still get the fail whale. I only installed the
package "compiz". Perhaps I need to install another Compiz Fedora 21
package?
http://pkgs.org/search/compiz



If session is installed in normal way not jhbuild then this session
would
not show as real session file has TryExec=compiz, but in jhbuild we
check
only if our custom script exist.



I've attached the log output.

"yum info compiz":
Version     : 0.8.8
Release     : 28.fc21



This is problem as well. gtk-window-decorator depends on metacity. old
compiz will not work with metacity 3.12.0 or any newer versions.

I ported gwd to GTK+ 3 and to new metacity so last official release
(https://launchpad.net/compiz) 0.9.12.0 should work with metacity
3.12.0,
but it is broken again with metacity 3.14.0.


https://code.launchpad.net/~albertsmuktupavels/compiz/support-libmetacity-private-3-14/+merge/237837
This is needed to get compiz work with metacity 3.14.0





Try to run compiz --replace from metacity session to see if compiz
works.


That seems to work. However, of the 2 apps I tried (gnome-terminal and
files), gnome-terminal is missing its title bar. Maybe all window
decorations are missing?



Because gtk-window-decorator crashed or even was not started.



Before:
http://imgur.com/9gldSDj,lphDKP0,BfQ4oSD#1
After:
http://imgur.com/9gldSDj,lphDKP0,BfQ4oSD#0
I can move the nautilus window, but not the terminal window:
http://imgur.com/9gldSDj,lphDKP0,BfQ4oSD#2

When I open up a drop-down menu, I can see it fading in. So it looks
like compiz is doing its effects.



Compiz need decorator that will draw window decorations.



-Mike

[...]

--
Alberts Muktupāvels
[...]


Here is how I would like to proceed:
1. Test/write the JHBuild instructions for GNOME 3.14.x and GNOME
Flashback 3.14.0.



There is no easy way to do this. gnome-world points to newest versions...
Commit:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/commit/?id=d55ce7c0ce275c14b4dbcb149100a20580036637

And I don't plan to do anything about this. JHBuild is nice to test newest
version that are still in development. Stable releases should be available
in distributions.

If someone will want make possible to use jhbuild to build older versions
than:
1) create new moduleset file from gnome-world. For example
gnome-flashback.modules
2) Update all modules to build for example 3.14 releases.
3) Find place where to host this file.
4) Then it should be possilbe to:
jhbuild -m {link to module file} build


Understood. I guess I'll at least try it. If it ends up being too much
work, I will not bother.


I wanted to make moduleset for only compiz, but I ended with problem that
compiz does not support building out of source tree or something like that.


2. Package GNOME Flashback with only the Metacity session for Fedora
and EPEL. (I've never packaged something for Fedora before, but I want
to learn.)



Can not help with this.


No problem. This is just an FYI.



3. After #1 and #2 are complete, focus on Compiz.



I think Arch Linux has working compiz session. So it is possible to get
working compiz session.
[...]
Alberts Muktupāvels
[...]


Thanks. I will use Arch as a reference.

-Mike
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Hi there,

The GNOME Flashback (Compiz) session works just fine in Arch - or at
least it does for me.

I maintain a couple of Flashback components and a couple of Compiz 0.9
packages in the AUR (Arch user repository) so if you have any issues,
let me know. I might be able to help

Regards

Charles
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