GNOME Shell Testing

[b]This thread is for testing support and technical discussion. Opinions should go to the Community Cafe thread or ideally the GNOME Shell mailing list[/b].

I made this thread again because as before, I figured the sort of people that would install and test pre-release versions of a new UI would be the sort of people that install and test pre-release versions of Ubuntu.

What is GNOME Shell? GNOME Shell, for those of you that do not know, is a user interface change to GNOME. With it, brings Mutter a combination of Metacity and Clutter, managing the windows. Say goodbye to compiz as it won't be compatible.

GNOME Shell will be released as **one part of GNOME 3** in March of 2011 it will not be default in 10.10 though there will be an optional package.

What does it look like? Here is GNOME Shell.

The active application near "Activities" has a menu upon clicking. Clicking on the date or username provide a calendar and menu respectively [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/menus.png[/IMG]

Currently some applications are open but minimized. Where are they? This is the Activities overview, where you run and manage "Activities" [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/overview.png[/IMG]

More applications can be run either by searching for the name in "find", or clicking the bar that says applications [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/moreapplications.png[/IMG]

You can easily add or subtract workspaces with the + and - buttons. By default workspaces are organized in wall form. The scrollbar, or smaller boxes let you switch among them [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/workspacewall.png[/IMG]

You can also view all workspaces at once in a grid layout [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/workspacegrid.png[/IMG]

Oh look, an instant message! Unlike the passive notify-OSD, clicking on this will bring up the window [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/messages.png[/IMG]

If no action is taken, it resides in the lower right, viewable upon hover. [IMG]http://www.markecurtis.com/etc/gnomeshell/messageexpand.png[/IMG]

OMG GNOME SHELL IS AWFUL! I'm moving to xfce/Windows/an abacus Calm down. Look at the GNOME 3 Myths

MYTH: GNOME won't support the current panel and window manager anymore and I don't want to use GNOME Shell

TRUTH: The GNOME 2.x panel and Metacity (the window manager) will still be available. Downstream distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu will have the option to include them in their distribution. You will be able to install them just as now you can install sawfish, compiz, etc inside your GNOME session. (There are no plans to support GNOME panel applets in GNOME Shell, TBA. This mailing list post has some information.)

How do I Learn More?

• Read up on the design document. It gives an idea of where they'd like to go and why.
• If that's too much of a read, look at this brief synopsis on GNOME Shell.
• Look at the GNOME Shell cheat sheet for features.

How do I Try it?

Running Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid and Maverick there are three ways to try GNOME Shell

As of Virtualbox 3.2.6 GNOME Shell will not run in a virtual machine, even with desktop additions installed

• Install the gnome-shell package (easy but out of date)
• Use the Ricotz PPA (slightly harder, but more up to date)
• Build from source (more difficult, but up to date when something is added, provided you rerun jhbuild build)

Building from source is a bit more complicated than the GNOME instructions say. So fire up a terminal

• sudo apt-get install curl libtiff4-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libcroco3-dev xserver-xephyr xulrunner-dev python-dev mesa-utils mesa-common-dev libreadline5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libwnck-dev librsvg2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-menu-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev gtk-doc-tools gnome-common git-core flex bison automake build-essential icon-naming-utils
• curl -O http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh
• /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh
• Get jhbuild (not a command line entry)
• For Lucid via repository, package name "jhbuild".
• From Jaunty
• From Debian

• jhbuild build

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE BUILDING Hey it keeps "hanging up unexpectedly" Quit building and run

 pushd ~/gnome-shell/source/ && git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+ gtk3 && popd

then re run jhbuild build I'm getting a lot of "undefined reference" errors try ``` rm ~/gnome-shell/install/*.la /usr/lib/*.la

Then jhbuild build
If it still doesn't work, delete the ~/gnome-shell folder and try again

**Yay! It's finally done building! Now what?**
To run
[LIST=1]
[*]cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src
[*]./gnome-shell --replace
[/LIST]

To quit GNOME Shell and return to the panels
[list=1[*]Go to the terminal
[*]hit CTRL-C[/list]

To update (check the [commit log]("http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell") for anything new)
[LIST]
[*]jhbuild build (rebuilds updated files)
[*]jhbuild build -f -a -c (builds all gnome shell files)
[/LIST]

To remove (if you want to do a clean install, or just remove it because you don't like it)
[LIST]
[*]Delete the folder gnome-shell in your home directory (assumes build from source)
[/LIST]

If you want to make it your default, put "gnome-shell --replace" in your Startup Items

**Love it? Hate it? Have a suggestion? Make your voice heard in the [GNOME Shell mailing list]("http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list")**

I find I use the search bar more often then the menu to find an application that I don't have in Docky. I usually only have to type one or two letters to find the app I want.

I'd test GS more but at the moment it's unusable due to corrupt font rendering.. Any ideas?

Using the 'radeon' graphics driver. Even if I try using it (despite fonts being unreadable) it crashes and restarts GDM.

Cheers, JC

Doesn't work using the flgrx drivers in Lucid. It flickers every time I open something and skew the menus on back clicks. Using the open drivers it works better, with the exception of a white broken line that appears occasionally in the window upon resizing, and sometimes the colors for the icons change. Still works flawlessly in my Karmic partition under the same conditions.

Doesn't work using the flgrx drivers in Lucid. It flickers every time I open something and skew the menus on back clicks. Using the open drivers it works better, with the exception of a white broken line that appears occasionally in the window upon resizing, and sometimes the colors for the icons change. Still works flawlessly in my Karmic partition under the same conditions.

Same here, unusable at the moment.

Also uninstallable in maverick currently due to librsvg2-dev dependencies. Anyone who want's to try it either install from repo's (very old version) or try the PPA

I'll be honest, I like gnome shell, but I do love Compiz. I know that that gnome3 will have effects in it, but will we have stuff similar to the cube? the open/close animations? 3D windows?

I'll be sad to move away from Compiz and the way gnome is now. I know that I don't have to move up, but I like to keep up.

KDE4 has these things so I'm sure Gnome will implement them in to their terrible shell as well.

Has anyone tried the replacement for nautilus; GNOME Activity Journal?

dyltman said: Has anyone tried the replacement for nautilus; GNOME Activity Journal?

Not too up on Gnome 3 as I'm a KDE user but I'm pretty sure activity journal isn't replacing nautilus

descendent87 said: Not too up on Gnome 3 as I'm a KDE user but I'm pretty sure activity journal isn't replacing nautilus

http://live.gnome.org/GNOME3Myths

The GNOME file manager (Nautilus) will be removed from GNOME and replaced with the GNOME Activity Journal!

descendent87 said: Also uninstallable in maverick currently due to librsvg2-dev dependencies. Anyone who want's to try it either install from repo's (very old version) or try the PPA

Hmmmm---I've been building from source all along & have not had that problem---GS is working fine here with the current maverick libs....

I might note that the build folder I'm using is more than a year old & I most likely also have older libs in my system.

dyltman said: http://live.gnome.org/GNOME3Myths

The GNOME file manager (Nautilus) will be removed from GNOME and replaced with the GNOME Activity Journal!

The purpose of that page is to debunk common myths regarding GNOME 3, and that sentence is quoted as a myth. Nautilus is not going anywhere, and GAJ is not intended to be a replacement for it.

I run now gnome-shell in linux mint 9 rc and works fine = ), have to wait little longer if then install it also Maverick.

23meg said: The purpose of that page is to debunk common myths regarding GNOME 3, and that sentence is quoted as a myth. Nautilus is not going anywhere, and GAJ is not intended to be a replacement for it.

Oh silly me.

merk, thanks for the very awesome post with screen shots and how to's for gnome shell. I don't like it but i do try it from time to time to see how it's going.

buzzmandt said: I don't like it but i do try it from time to time to see how it's going.

I have the same opinion, Gnome-Shell doesn't give me something new except for trouble to found a specific app. Ok with Docky running.

A friendly reminder, for those who haven't read the original post:

This thread is dedicated to testing and technical discussion of GNOME Shell. Comments and opinions should go to the thread(s) in Community Cafe, or the mailing list.

23meg said: A friendly reminder, for those who haven't read the original post:

This thread is dedicated to testing and technical discussion of GNOME Shell. Comments and opinions should go to the thread(s) in Community Cafe, or the mailing list.

Testing software without opinions.??...must be mission impossible !

If a user don't test specific software, stay away ! IMHO...

I have a interesting "problem".

If I attach a external screen to my laptop, Gnome-Shell runs much more smoothly. Without, it's not laggy, it's just not as fast/smooth.

MacBook 5,1 GPU: 9400M Video out: DisplayPort Driver: Nvidia-current (195.36.15) Kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

Up to Date Lucid install. Gnome-shell is installed from source.

plun said: Testing software without opinions.??...must be mission impossible !

Yes, it can be hard (as well as unnecessary) to draw a line between opinions and exchange of technical facts, *during testing discourse*.

However, drive-by comments in the form of "I like/hate GNOME Shell" / "It rocks" / "It's useless" etc. tend to come from people who are *not* actively testing it, and branch off into long, unproductive discussions of likes and dislikes. Those are the ones we want to avoid in this thread; they can happen in Community Cafe, which is the dedicated forum to that kind of discussion.

I notice that the calender has been given an update within the last day or so & there is a gconf key now for it....question is: where is the key?

The calender has grown by 50% with the change & I want to shrink it back to a usable size.....:confused:

autocrosser said: I notice that the calender has been given an update within the last day or so & there is a gconf key now for it....question is: where is the key?

The calender has grown by 50% with the change & I want to shrink it back to a usable size.....:confused:

gconf-editor > desktop > gnome >shell > clock

Thank You, but I've been there......Yes--it works a treat on the clock (glad to have that control finally!), but the calendar size is not controllable from there---I reread the change log & I was mistaken...it's for the clock & not the calendar. Anyone know where the conf is for it?

Anyone tried gnome shell with xmonad wm?

AFAIK GNOME Shell depends on Mutter, so you can't run it with a different WM.

Too bad then.

I tried to find any such Cafe threads. failed.

so ill post my question here, How does the upcoming release of Unity affect plans for GS?

HolidayQueen said: I tried to find any such Cafe threads. failed.

so ill post my question here, How does the upcoming release of Unity affect plans for GS?

Too early to tell.

As I said in the first post, GNOME Shell will be available for Maverick though not default.

Also, Unity is focused specifically for Netbooks anyway.

Madspyman said: Doesn't work using the flgrx drivers in Lucid. It flickers every time I open something and skew the menus on back clicks. Using the open drivers it works better, with the exception of a white broken line that appears occasionally in the window upon resizing, and sometimes the colors for the icons change. Still works flawlessly in my Karmic partition under the same conditions.

I was beginning to think I was the only one. I get random distortions of various windows as I go to and from the overlay.

Running the PPA version. Had to stop as it was impacting my work.

My home PC has a Nvidia card and runs fine, except for a bit of slowness that I would expect from an early version of software.

is there going to be window list applet for seeingand changing what apps i have open quickly and easily.

terry_gardener said: is there going to be window list applet for seeingand changing what apps i have open quickly and easily.

Not counting the overlay there isn't anything like that right now.

Asking for that feature often comes up in the mailing list so who knows what will happen in the long run

So I tested this today. Installed nouveau with 3d support and I was surprise it work. However it would be hard to switch to it when you are so costumed to use a tiling windows manager. With gnome shell you have to use your mouse too much. Do not like that.

Merk42 said:

Asking for that feature often comes up in the mailing list so who knows what will happen in the long run

The gnome devs will brickwall it like they did the reasonable request for a screensaver options button for a decade.

LKjell said: With gnome shell you have to use your mouse too much. Do not like that.

You can still alt-tab to switch windows, you can still switch desktops with the keyboard (pretty sure anyway). You can set keyboard shortcuts for the overlay. I'm not really sure what you 'need' to use the mouse for that you don't 'need' to use if for now.

All this is really replacing is the panels, menus and compositor.

Have a look at the gnome-shell Cheat Sheet.

VeeDubb said: You can still alt-tab to switch windows, you can still switch desktops with the keyboard (pretty sure anyway). You can set keyboard shortcuts for the overlay. I'm not really sure what you 'need' to use the mouse for that you don't 'need' to use if for now.

All this is really replacing is the panels, menus and compositor.

Resize my windows and juxapose two windows.

You are using it wrong. This is supposed to be social from the start and here you are using your computer. Bad, bad boy.

I think you may be surprised as things go on. It has improved tremendously in the last 6 months. Much more functionality.

Don't write it off just yet.

LKjell said: So I tested this today. Installed nouveau with 3d support and I was surprise it work. However it would be hard to switch to it when you are so costumed to use a tiling windows manager. With gnome shell you have to use your mouse too much. Do not like that.

Do you use the xorg-edgers ppa?

Tompalaz said: Do you use the xorg-edgers ppa?

Yes. However, you need a 2.6.34 kernel.

Is there a way to quit looking glass?

Press ESC

Ah you mean while testing elements. ALT+F2 run lg again and THEN press ESC.

There might be another way but I sure don't know it.

So I compiled the lastest version. when I run ./gnome-shell --replace I get a black screen that blinks with white lines on the top every few seconds. Anyone have that issue.

Thanks

flintman said: So I compiled the lastest version. when I run ./gnome-shell --replace I get a black screen that blinks with white lines on the top every few seconds. Anyone have that issue.

Thanks

Works fine for me on an nVidia card with the proprietary drivers.

What's your video card/drivers?

it's just a dell optiplex GX260 on-board video

Have you set the desktop effects in System>Preferences>Appearance to "none"? Worked for me.

Lot of new updates the past hour.

Like being able to click on the application name near Activities to quit it (I would imagine more options will be added there)

ya visual effects set to none

Alt+F2 crashes my GS (or Alt+F2 and Escape) - fresh compile. Other things works fine.

flintman said: ya visual effects set to none

Try building again, as I said there were a lot of changes in the past 2 hours

Does the terminal display any particular error when you try to run ./gnome-shell --replace

Merk42 said: Lot of new updates the past hour.

Like being able to click on the application name near Activities to quit it (I would imagine more options will be added there)

Sounds good...I'm at work right now, will rebuild tonight.

autocrosser said: Sounds good...I'm at work right now, will rebuild tonight.

Check the first post for a peek

i have the ricotz ppa.

when i try gnome-shell it seems to work but when something happens on screen for example notifications or the tick near name changes to pause symbol the screen flickers briefly but annoying.

i listen alot to music and when the song changes it does a notification and the screen flickers.

is this happening to anyone else.

using nvidia binary drivers geforce 6150se gpu

is it possible to trigger the application change button (current ALT-TAB) with the middle mouse button?

regards marijus

I've done the latest build---looks good. I like the new way to provide menus/control.

Interesting question: I tried to start Miro & it's not working....can someone else try it to see if it's a problem or just my install?

terry_gardener said: i have the ricotz ppa.

when i try gnome-shell it seems to work but when something happens on screen for example notifications or the tick near name changes to pause symbol the screen flickers briefly but annoying.

i listen alot to music and when the song changes it does a notification and the screen flickers.

is this happening to anyone else.

using nvidia binary drivers geforce 6150se gpu

What player are you using? I'm using Exaile & building from source--no flicker here. SLI nvidia 9800GT cards.

rhythmbox but it is gnome-shell issue since it happens when something changes on-screen graphically.

opening the calender by clicking the clock, notifications of any sort. when the available tick turns to pause button. opening the overlay

it will flicker 1-5 times and then stop lasts 1-2 seconds

Luckily gnome-shell won't be default in the maverick. Right decision. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/mark-shuttleworth-no-gnome-shell-in.html

Please limit your posts in this thread to discussions about gnome shell, not opinions of whether it is good, bad or indifferent. If you want to add your opinion, there is a thread here for that.

url said: <snip> gnome-shell won't be default in the maverick. <snip>

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/mark-shuttleworth-no-gnome-shell-in.html

I said that in the first post...

Of course it seems once a thread reaches 2+ pages no one reads the first post anymore :(

Is it just me or does the status menu not actually DO anything to your status. At least in Pidgin.

Mblackwell said: Is it just me or does the status menu not actually DO anything to your status. At least in Pidgin.

The same here - empathy.

I am unable to load GS. I get a blank screen and system crashes. I installed GS using PPA. I have a Dell E1505 and using nouveau drivers.

I get following error.

gnome-shell --replace

Window manager warning: Log level 16: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)] Window manager warning: Log level 8: failed to load plugins WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug! ^CShell killed with signal 2 donnie@donnie-laptop:~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: Software rendering detected. /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0 /usr/bin/compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Launching fallback window manager ^C

Thanks.

Go to Appearance and disable desktop effects.

Mblackwell said: Go to Appearance and disable desktop effects.

Desktop effects don't work with Nouveau drivers. They are already disabled.

sudo apt-get install curl libgstreamer0.10-dev libcroco3-dev xserver-xephyr xulrunner-dev python-dev mesa-utils mesa-common-dev libreadline5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libwnck-dev librsvg2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-menu-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev gtk-doc-tools gnome-common git-core flex bison automake build-essential

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done curl is already the newest version. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libcroco3-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.0) but it is not going to be installed libdbus-glib-1-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed libgconf2-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.14.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: liborbit2-dev (>= 1:2.10.2-1.1) but it is not going to be installed libgnome-menu-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.15.2) but it is not going to be installed libgstreamer0.10-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed libgtk2.0-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.21.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.20) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.13.0) but it is not going to be installed librsvg2-dev: Depends: librsvg2-2 (= 2.26.2-0ubuntu1) but 2.26.2-0ubuntu2 is to be installed Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.12.0) but it is not going to be installed libwnck-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.13.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpango1.0-dev but it is not going to be installed xulrunner-dev: Depends: xulrunner-1.9.2-dev but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages

And

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libglib2.0-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.24.0-0ubuntu4) but 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed E: Broken packages

Another error. Please help.

are installing from default repos, ppa or from source?

i installed from ppa and it worked fine.

I got a blank screen with a blocky font when I tried gnome-shell with the nouveau drivers the other day, I just installed the restricted drivers, an now everything works fine. I'm using the ricotz ppa for gnome shell.

terry_gardener said: are installing from default repos, ppa or from source?

i installed from ppa and it worked fine.

I installed using ppa and also tried building up from source. Couldn't build from source due to dependency error. Probably the problem is with the nouveau drivers.

Thanks.

Yes---I'm building from source & using the restricted drivers---no problem. That's where I would go.

autocrosser said: Yes---I'm building from source & using the restricted drivers---no problem. That's where I would go.

Well, using restricted drivers i get the following error.

gnome-shell --replace Window manager warning: Log level 16: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)] Window manager warning: Log level 8: failed to load plugins

Hmmmm---I don't have anything in that location & don't get that error...you might want to delete your gnome-shell folder in your home & rebuild.... strange that it's asking for a library that is not in your system---works in my system without that one...

autocrosser said: Hmmmm---I don't have anything in that location & don't get that error...you might want to delete your gnome-shell folder in your home & rebuild.... strange that it's asking for a library that is not in your system---works in my system without that one...

The one from official repo worked, but its slow and not very responsive. I will try to build from source.

Thanks

This update seems pretty interesting, but it won't work for me. Can anyone of you guys use it?

Tompalaz said: This update seems pretty interesting, but it won't work for me. Can anyone of you guys use it?

It's running a new workspace but an application is showing in current workspace ... so it looks like a bug. And it seems to be not working with ctrl+mouse - only middle mouse (scroll button).

Only been testing it for little over a day now but it seems pretty good once you get use to it.

What is the purpose of the shaded bottom bar that pops up when you bring the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen?

Krause said: Only been testing it for little over a day now but it seems pretty good once you get use to it.

What is the purpose of the shaded bottom bar that pops up when you bring the mouse to the bottom left corner of the screen?

Using the latest build from source nothing happens if you hover in the bottom left, for hovering in the bottom right, check the first post.

Merk42 said: Using the latest build from source nothing happens if you hover in the bottom left, for hovering in the bottom right, check the first post.

Sorry, meant right.

So that bar is always there even when there is no messages, that's all its used for?

Krause said: Sorry, meant right.

So that bar is always there even when there is no messages, that's all its used for?

CURRENTLY yes, just as the message indicator (envelope) is always present even if no messages.

There was some mockup of the bottom LEFT being used for the .... pooper

I can't wait to use it with my image editing software so I can "stick the GIMP in the pooper"

I'm on Gnome-shell for two days now. I haven't had any problem so far. It's now my main UI for Lucid.

My only beef is that I can't customize it too much yet. And if you have lots of favorites, the Recent Documents is displayed outside the viewable area of your display (no you can't see it). And to remedy it, I have to remove some favorites.

Other than that, everything's working good so far. I'm looking for ways to customize this thing - perhaps through the JS source code?

Anybody have any ideas?

[[http://www.madforubuntu.com]](http://www.madforubuntu.com])

If you check this thread (from last round of testing) you will find a number of themes that folks have made that have not been transfered to the current thread;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305154

If you find them it might be nice to post links to them in the old thread. I know that the default theme (back a ways may have been changed) just about gave me seizures. Some of the thems are pretty nice and folks did a great job on them.

They also make pretty good templates for you to fool around with. There are instructions for installation of the themes. A link to that would be real nice too for folks that want to fool with them.

I'm not sure wether this is the right place to post this since I'm using the lucid lynx.... I'm trying to get the gnome-shell running.. i tried both with the default repositories and the ricotz gnome shell testing ppa... with the default packages i get:

gnome-shell --replace

Window manager warning: Log level 16: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)] Window manager warning: Log level 8: failed to load plugins while with the ppa packages i get a similar output:

gnome-shell --replace

(mutter:18613): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (/usr/lib/libgjs-gi.so.0: undefined symbol: g_struct_info_is_foreign)]

can anybody help? should i file bugs? where?

Found this tutorial with in the tutorial forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479239

How do I change icon size ???

m10 said: I'm not sure wether this is the right place to post this since I'm using the lucid lynx....

I'm trying to get the gnome-shell running.. i tried both with the default repositories and the ricotz gnome shell testing ppa... with the default packages i get:

while with the ppa packages i get a similar output:

can anybody help? should i file bugs? where?

As both the Ricotz PPA and ESPECIALLY the package in the repositories are often outdated, try building from source. You can find instructions for Lucid on the first post of this thread

Merk42 said: As both the Ricotz PPA and ESPECIALLY the package in the repositories are often outdated, try building from source.

I am aware that any repository is most often at least slightly outdated and that building from source is the best option to get the latest development stuff. But it would have been nice to just easily install some packages to have a look at this stuff. Also I am on dial-up speed and building from source always takes more bandwidth (and thus time to download) than installing binary packages. I wanted to trade uptodate-ness(??) with bindwidth/time ;) And what is the purpose of the packages anyway if they do not work? I thought that was for people who prefer not (or are not able ) to build from source and still want to test it..

Nevertheless, thank you for the quick reply. I now will go and build from source as you told me:)

The PPA should be fine, the default repo packages are heavily outdated, and building from source shouldn't take any more real bandwidth once you download the initial packages GS depends on.

Mblackwell said: The PPA should be fine, the default repo packages are heavily outdated, and building from source shouldn't take any more real bandwidth once you download the initial packages GS depends on.

I think you guys have been away from dial up too long.

My dial up at at the ranch, for instance was good for about 10Mb per hour. It does not take much to make a big difference in the time it takes to download something.

Source files are no fun at all compared to binaries.

So I have a Dell Optiplex GX260. All stock. Fresh install of 10.04.

I just compiled the latest version of gnome-shell. When I run ./gnome-shell -r the screen blanks out and that's it. I can't do anything from CONTROL-C to ALT CTRL F1. I have to push the power button and restart. Anyone else having this issue.

Thanks

flintman said: So I have a Dell Optiplex GX260. All stock. Fresh install of 10.04.

I just compiled the latest version of gnome-shell. When I run ./gnome-shell -r the screen blanks out and that's it. I can't do anything from CONTROL-C to ALT CTRL F1. I have to push the power button and restart. Anyone else having this issue.

Thanks

I'm not sure what ./gnome-shell -r is, the code is ./gnome-shell --replace. Also, I suggest posting any other GNOME Shell issues in this thread

Threads merged.

Could you guys/gals with a laptop please test if gnome-shell gets more responsive if you connect a screen to your computer?

Gnome-Shell for me there's a big diffrence in response time and it feels much smoother/faster. Thanks a bunch.

Merk42 said: I'm not sure what ./gnome-shell -r is, the code is ./gnome-shell --replace. Also, I suggest posting any other GNOME Shell issues in this thread

either one switches it -r or -replace. Both cause the issue

Try "--replace"

flintman said: So I have a Dell Optiplex GX260. All stock. Fresh install of 10.04.

I just compiled the latest version of gnome-shell. When I run ./gnome-shell -r the screen blanks out and that's it. I can't do anything from CONTROL-C to ALT CTRL F1. I have to push the power button and restart. Anyone else having this issue.

Thanks

I have had the same issues when i used Gnome-shell with Nouveau drivers. Use Nvidia proprietary drivers and disable desktop effects.

anyone using gnome-shell with the oss ati drivers? on my laptop that has a mobility 2600pro mutter is really slow and the window borders look messed up, on my desktop with a 4870 its not slow but again the windows borders are messed up and other intermittent graphical glitches. Compiz works perfectly on both of them (except blur doesnt work)

Madspyman said: Doesn't work using the flgrx drivers in Lucid. It flickers every time I open something and skew the menus on back clicks.

This is still happening.

Additional technical issues:

• [COLOR="Red"][unusable][/COLOR] Many parts of Firefox do not redraw themselves properly. For example, when typing, backspacing, repositioning cursor, etc. in the Reply to Thread page here. Layman's guess: redraw events just seem to be randomly lost.
• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Tooltip windows are skewed, with the bottom-left corner cut off and showing up on the bottom-right.
• [COLOR="Red"][unusable][/COLOR] Script windows in Firefox, like when clicking the list button in this forum's Reply to Thread window, show up skewed. Yep, the entire window including the buttons.
• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Default theme aesthetics/placement/effects are awful. For example, the app icon (in the top panel) appears to be zoomed and cut off for no apparent reason. Tooltips appear way too "high" based on where their shadows appear. etc. I hope this stuff is not hard-coded.
• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Text appears at different vertical positions in top panel-like bar; some code should be added to align (and pad, if necessary) the top panel items based on some common text placement. Top panel items without text (e.g. notification icons) would need to be aligned based on where in the icon the opague pixels begin.
• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Screenshots are not working. Best way to describe a visual artifact is to get a screencap, yet all I get in the screenshot window is a black screen with a mouse cursor.
• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Window title bar buttons (min, max/restore, close) appear in top-right of window, whereas theme defines them to be in the top-left. I can't imagine this will work well when we get windicators!

I'm not sure how many of these are driver issues. fglrx (Radeon HD5770)

Suggestion:

Traditionally, stuff like titlebar text, menus, toolbar icons, etc. has been justified (usually left-justified?). Perhaps it would be better to save the justified stuff for the gnome-shell (which is supposed to "stick" to the sides of the monitor), and let the app window content be centered within its window. This would provide some more visual separation between the apps and the shell, which currently appears mashed together.

This is still happening.

Additional technical issues:

• [COLOR="Red"][unusable][/COLOR] Many parts of Firefox do not redraw themselves properly. For example, when typing, backspacing, repositioning cursor, etc. in the Reply to Thread page here. Layman's guess: redraw events just seem to be randomly lost.

No problems here.

• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Tooltip windows are skewed, with the bottom-left corner cut off and showing up on the bottom-right.

No problems here.

• [COLOR="Red"][unusable][/COLOR] Script windows in Firefox, like when clicking the list button in this forum's Reply to Thread window, show up skewed. Yep, the entire window including the buttons.

No problems here.

• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Default theme aesthetics/placement/effects are awful. For example, the app icon (in the top panel) appears to be zoomed and cut off for no apparent reason. Tooltips appear way too "high" based on where their shadows appear. etc. I hope this stuff is not hard-coded.

its a taste thing. I like zoomed icons - it is very nice. And what about tooltips??

• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Text appears at different vertical positions in top panel-like bar; some code should be added to align (and pad, if necessary) the top panel items based on some common text placement. Top panel items without text (e.g. notification icons) would need to be aligned based on where in the icon the opague pixels begin.

Agree - vertical position is bad.

• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Screenshots are not working. Best way to describe a visual artifact is to get a screencap, yet all I get in the screenshot window is a black screen with a mouse cursor.

No problems here. I can get any screenshot.

• [COLOR="DarkOrange"][minor][/COLOR] Window title bar buttons (min, max/restore, close) appear in top-right of window, whereas theme defines them to be in the top-left. I can't imagine this will work well when we get windicators!

The same here.

I've got some kind of Intel gfx. Need to check. GS builded from source.

xtoudi said: (snipped)

Thanks, probably a good number of these are bugs specific to my driver and/or hardware.

its a taste thing. I like zoomed icons - it is very nice.

I don't; part of the screen looks like it's been cut off. But anyway, it's fine for everyone to use something different. I was just saying 1) I think it's a bad default and 2) I hope it's not hard-coded that way. Meaning, one should be able to choose a theme with or without the zoomed+clipped icon.

And what about tooltips??

The shadow is thin and starts 5-7px away from the window. That makes the tooltip appear too "high." On second thought, maybe this is just a side effect of the window skew bug.

I've got some kind of Intel gfx. Need to check.

GS builded from source. For reference: Radeon HD5770, fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu3, and gnome-shell 2.29.1+git20100517.5de1a15d-0ubuntu1~10.04~ricotz1 from the Ricotz PPA.

null_pointer_us said:

The shadow is thin and starts 5-7px away from the window. That makes the tooltip appear too "high." On second thought, maybe this is just a side effect of the window skew bug.

I don't have any shadowed tooltips :-) But there is sth strange with this. Network, volume tooltips are very nice, rounded. But "other" applications tooltips (skype) are pretty simple - they are diffrent in some way - very delicate diffrent.

Tompalaz said: Could you guys/gals with a laptop please test if gnome-shell gets more responsive if you connect a screen to your computer?

Gnome-Shell for me there's a big diffrence in response time and it feels much smoother/faster. Thanks a bunch.

So I can't try connecting a monitor, simply because I don't own one...

I'd read your thread a few times and figured it was something on your laptop, today I installed gnome-shell into my "normal" system (not my testing maverick partition where gnome-shell from the regular ubuntu repositories has actually been working out for me just fine) from the Ricotz PPA, and, well, performance really sucks, it's pretty much unusable (however as I said runs fine in my other partition).

Not sure if the fact that I use AWN is causing the suckiness, or something else yet.

For some reason, from time to time when I use the indicators and go to activities the screen flickers for a while.

madmed sent me a pm and we had a conversation regarding that gnome-shell felt slow.

I'm running lucid, I tried without and with the PPA both are slow, Intel graphics 2.6.32-22 kernel. Is quadrapassel working for you? because it uses clutter also. Do you think it's a kernel issue? I will try with fedora 13, it has the 2.6.34 kernel.

I asked him to try to plugin a monitor to see what happened.

That's wierd!! I plugged in my external monitor and both gnome shell and quadrapassel are running fast!!! but I still have the errors in the terminal!!

This affects both nVidia and Intel GPUs. It would be nice to see if there's a patch/workaround to trick g-s to think there's a screen attached. This is a performance boost that devs/someone with the skills should look into.

Arla said: So I can't try connecting a monitor, simply because I don't own one...

I'd read your thread a few times and figured it was something on your laptop, today I installed gnome-shell into my "normal" system (not my testing maverick partition where gnome-shell from the regular ubuntu repositories has actually been working out for me just fine) from the Ricotz PPA, and, well, performance really sucks, it's pretty much unusable (however as I said runs fine in my other partition).

Not sure if the fact that I use AWN is causing the suckiness, or something else yet.

I am having exactly the same problems as post 97 in this thread, makes gnome-shell unusable.

Is anyone else's chat not working? When someone sends me messages (empathy) they don't show up in the status bar like before. The window pops up, but thats it.

All application notifications that I have seen so far show up at the bottom of the screen, you can see the notification area if you move your mouse pointer to the lower right hand corner of the screen.

That's what I meant, the bottom of the screen. Chat used to show up in it, now it doesn't.

HalfEmptyHero said: That's what I meant, the bottom of the screen. Chat used to show up in it, now it doesn't.

Looks like a bug that was fixed now http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=b6a47cdf7674b23bb5946d7abc294dd842d9a63c

To add to my prior post, I've got no idea :)

I added AWN to my Maverick install (which was done as a fresh Lucid install, then upgraded to Maverick) and it worked fine, gnome-shell is performing admirably (totally usable) so I upgraded to the ricotz PPA from the version in the main repositories, still works fine, no problems, the only thing I can think of at this point is that my main partition was a Karmic upgrade, vs this one being a Lucid upgrade? Going to try reinstalling my main partition and see what happens.

I'm using AWN with my GS--I build from source & lately it's been running much faster...Nvidia SLI setup, but it was laggard a month ago....what hardware are you using?

Have anyone tried gnome-shell with the nouveau drivers? When I try, nautilus gets all screwed up. It's kind of transparent and the white colors in my wallpaper break through witch makes it difficult to see.

Screenshot http://preview.tinyurl.com/3y5ju4a

autocrosser said: I'm using AWN with my GS--I build from source & lately it's been running much faster...Nvidia SLI setup, but it was laggard a month ago....what hardware are you using?

It's my Y450 laptop, which has a stock Intel graphics card if memory serves, the problem I have is that it works fine in my test partition which is a virtually clean install of Lucid upgraded to Maverick, but doesn't work in my main partition which was a Karmic install upgraded to Lucid during testing (I think, although now I think more it might have been just a lucid test build upgraded through the lucid testing process, I think lucid broke my machine once and I "had" to reinstall), and has more programs installed (and some things uninstalled).

As I said, will probably try tonight reinstalling my main partition (I want to reinstall some stuff without the recommends anyway, and find that a reinstall is quicker and easier than trying to remove the relevant packages) and I'll see where it leaves me.

I can make sure I create a package list before I reinstall, and that way might be able to get some idea of what is the offending package.

Has anyone gotten gnome-shell to work with 2 monitors? I'm use to using 2 monitors with each one setup as a seperate xscreen using nvidia-settings if i try to enable a 2nd xscreen on restart all i get a file manager that is constantly starting

Just out of interest, when will the Gnome-Shell inn the repo's be updated?

Or are we looking at no updates for the for-see-able future? The reason I ask is because I like keeping my home folder all tidy, building the gnome-shell from source adds a bunch of folders I don't want in there...

Add the PPA in the OP.

Mblackwell said: Add the PPA in the OP.

Then I just update and run gnome-shell via the terminal as usual?

Yep.

ok cool I'll give it s shot

EDIT: I added it and ran update manager, giving me a warning of "Partial Upgrade" is this normal??

"Not all updates can be installed"

Please read the partial upgrades sticky (if you haven't already): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479146

A good rule of thumb is: never use update manager for experimental or development packages. Learning more advanced package management tools (like aptitude or syntaptic) is pretty much required if you want to run these types of packages. Update manager is really only intended for official releases and stable package sets.

Regarding ricotz's gnome-shell PPA, I got some message about a gir1-glib conflict, but the packages seemed very specific to gnome-shell, so I opted to install the PPA versions.

In this case maybe I'll give this a miss until I read up more on aptitude or synaptic. I can't afford to mess up my system right now... thank you for your reply

lime4x4 said: Has anyone gotten gnome-shell to work with 2 monitors? I'm use to using 2 monitors with each one setup as a seperate xscreen

using nvidia-settings if i try to enable a 2nd xscreen on restart all i get a file manager that is constantly starting

I am and it's working fine for me.

Hi!

I'm building gnome-shell from the git-repository, but since yesterdays commits it's not working anymore

[PHP]do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly. Try adjusting the vblank_mode configuration parameter. JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: No JS module 'scripting' found in search path JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@:0 ("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/gerhard/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:32 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'No JS module 'scripting' found in search path' JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: No JS module 'scripting' found in search path JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@:0 ("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/gerhard/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:32 Error("Chained exception")@:0 ("Chained exception")@gjs_throw:0 @<main>:1 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'No JS module 'scripting' found in search path' Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: No JS module 'scripting' found in search path gerhard@gerhard-laptop:~/gnome-shell/install/bin$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.[/PHP]

any hints how to correct this?

thx,

Well I've built from source on my netbook and gave it a spin. I don't really know what to say.. it's interesting. But everything seems so big, and when you're on the desktop, it just feels so empty and like you're trapped in a small space. I know it's early right now, and I can't wait to see what happens further down the line... but for now I'm not sold...

laborg said: Hi!

I'm building gnome-shell from the git-repository, but since yesterdays commits it's not working anymore

[PHP]do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly. Try adjusting the vblank_mode configuration parameter. JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: No JS module 'scripting' found in search path JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@:0 ("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/gerhard/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:32 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'No JS module 'scripting' found in search path' JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: No JS module 'scripting' found in search path JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@:0 ("No JS module 'scripting' found in search path")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/gerhard/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:32 Error("Chained exception")@:0 ("Chained exception")@gjs_throw:0 @<main>:1 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'No JS module 'scripting' found in search path' Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: No JS module 'scripting' found in search path gerhard@gerhard-laptop:~/gnome-shell/install/bin$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.[/PHP]any hints how to correct this?

thx,

I was having that problem yesterday also--rebuilding this evening all worked well again. Sometimes things get b0rked, so try until they are straightened out..... Also, you might try calling the startup with:``` cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src

Does GS fail to build for any of you? Can't upgrade from source to latest release.

jhbuild build -fac won't do it either.

As above I'm getting this

JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Meta' version '2.29', but '2.31' is already loaded'

Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Meta' version '2.29', but '2.31' is already loaded peter@pavilion:~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running

Hence gnome-shell doesn't start

Have either of you tried deleting the ~/gnome-shell folder and rebuilding? Also what version of Ubuntu?

Merk42 said: Have either of you tried deleting the ~/gnome-shell folder and rebuilding? Also what version of Ubuntu?

Maverick. I tried to remove gnome-shell folder but it still fail to build on step 5

Tompalaz said: Maverick. I tried to remove gnome-shell folder but it still fail to build on step 5

Maybe you should try to get latest gnome-shell-build-setup.sh:

curl -O http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh

and then

/bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh

...and

jhbuild build

Merk42 said: Have either of you tried deleting the ~/gnome-shell folder and rebuilding? Also what version of Ubuntu?

I have wasted enough amount of time in building Gnome-shell from source with several installation failures. I am now using it from PPA.

@ merk42 you need to edit the OP to point at the correct git repository that line should read

curl -O http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh

as it is now the .sh it downloads has a syntax error .

trying a fresh build on maverick amd64 the jhbuild errors out during the build phase see attached txt file .

nuts the file didn't attach trying again , had to trim a few errors out of it to get it bellow 19.5 kb to upload .

Yes--I've got the same error--also building on X86-64(Intel)--it's complaining about a couple of missing build files: gibaseinfo.h, gifunctioninfo.h, gitypelib.h & gitypes.h in /home/dean/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository/gir/tmp-introspectnTNmDC

I'm looking into it.....

OK--Found the problem---you will find the four files in: ./gnome-shell/install/include/gobject-introspection-1.0 In that folder create a folder called "girepository" (without the quotes) & move the four build files into it---then rerun the build. Someone messed up in one of the make files & did not include a create folder, so the build dumped the files "near" where they needed to go (at least that's my guess).

As soon as I created the "correct" folder the build sailed right past without errors.

By the way--the last fresh build I did had a "interesting" error during gconf---I had to change permissions on /usr/lib/gio/modules---it wanted to install libgsettingsgconfbackend.la & .so there--I had some minor issues making that writeable, but as it was just gio not the "real" gconf lib---I let it---so far no problems with it......

OK, whilst I typed this my build finished---so that is a quick patch/repair....

[edit]--I created links from the new folder back to the parent folder in case things get changed in the future--seems like a good idea.....

thanks ,That got me as far as building clutter then it errored looking for a lib . Its 11:15 pm local and I haven't started dinner yet , thats enough for tonight , I'll wipe and start from scratch tommorow.

That's the best idea--I nuked my ./gnome-shell folder before I did the build....nice to do a clean build every couple of weeks or so.....

Have a good evening & start fresh tomorrow!!!!

Updated the OP with the new git link.

As far as the problem now has anyone filed a bug?

No--I figure I'll look at it again tomorrow to see if it was fixed--betting on someone just forgetting a line. If it's still there tomorrow I'll get a bug posted--very sure that it's a bit late to do tonight.........

I have been trying to get gnome-shell to work properly, but I am getting graphical problems all over the place.

(mutter:28868): Clutter-WARNING **: The required ID of 66122 does not refer to an existing actor; this usually implies that the pick() of an actor is not correctly implemented or that there is an error in the glReadPixels() implementation of the GL driver.

(mutter:28868): Clutter-WARNING **: The required ID of 65846 does not refer to an existing actor; this usually implies that the pick() of an actor is not correctly implemented or that there is an error in the glReadPixels() implementation of the GL driver.

(mutter:28868): Clutter-WARNING **: The required ID of 65846 does not refer to an existing actor; this usually implies that the pick() of an actor is not correctly implemented or that there is an error in the glReadPixels() implementation of the GL driver.

(mutter:28868): Clutter-WARNING **: The required ID of 66102 does not refer to an existing actor; this usually implies that the pick() of an actor is not correctly implemented or that there is an error in the glReadPixels() implementation of the GL driver.

From reading others posts in this thread, it seems other people are having the same, or very similar problems. As a result of this, animations are not smooth, artifacts are going all over the place, and the mouse position is not being detected properly for rollovers/clicks, making navigation extremely difficult. Occasionally gnome-shell will eventually just crash. I have yet to find any solutions to this problem, or are there any?

I am using the 195.36.15 drivers, and have the GeForce Go 7900 GS, and am running Lucid

What's the version number from the jhbuild. is it 2.31.2 or higher?

Hmm, how would I check this?

wiped everything and started over tonight , they must have updated both gnome-shell-build.sh and jhbuild.rc , when I ran the ...build.sh the first time tonight it asked me to install libgl1-mesa-dev it did not do so last night apearently that cured the failure at building clutter . reran the ....build.sh and it built a new jhbuild.rc , ran sudo jhbuild build , it didn't get stuck looking for those 4 files this time and it completed with sucess . gnome-shell starts and runs but crashes starting some apps terminal starts ok Opera and FF crash it , it restarts metacity when it crashes so I could copy the output of the terminal I started it from and paste it to gedit to save it .I'm on my stable box right now and the saved file is on my test box I can post it from ther if it would be useful .

Yes--I did a clean build also without errors....looks like it was a minor "burp". I'm not having any problems running it--do notice that it "seems" snappier than it has for a while now...

I am having some problems with large Java windows (shudder & some crashing), but that's about it.....(play a browser game called Dark Orbit--pops a 1024x768 Java window in the middle of my 1920x1080 screen--the Java window is not happy about it)......

I'll give that a try this evening , that is if I can find a browser that don't crash GS on my box:confused: I didn't play around much after I got it built last night , it was late again .

Just tried compiling and running it. Get a lot of black, with bits of white and a ridiculously slow refresh rate. Here's my terminal output:

$ ./gnome-shell --replace
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Jun 02 2010 14:08:43 GMT+0100 (BST)
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
libgconf-2.so.4: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
libgconf-2.so.4: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
Error loading document: Error opening file: No such file or directory
Error loading document: Error opening file: No such file or directory
^CShell killed with signal 2

@autocrosser its really acting wierd tonight , still using last nights build . 1st time I started it all was well even the browsers didn't crash it ! signed up and tried your game , it was stable for the short time I messed with it ( I also have a 1920x1080 display ) . It crashed the next several times I started it ( with a signal 6 ) then after completely killing compiz ( I had been just using metacity --replace) I got it to atart and run but now browsers are crashing it again ??? I'll try a rebuild this time inplace .

edit : rebuild using -f -a -c no help

I noticed that the rbga gtk stuff just came in again---Firefox is now crashing GS as soon as I start it & is having flash crash issues (in the normal Gnome session)...So I'm back to using Chrome in GS. The Java window flickering is the same as Firefox--no better--no worse & at least flash stuff is working in Chrome....

I think one difference between our builds is that I'm using the xorg-edgers PPA (not sure if you are or not)--just got a Nvidia driver update a day or so ago (using 259.29) & I'm running a SLI-setup. I think that the SLI is "covering" up some GS issues due to the available amount of Vram & GPU, at least that would be my take on it....other than what I've got going above, GS is working perfectly......(watch--I just hexed myself:) ).......:P

Can some one post a screenshot of the current build (just curious to see if their are any visual changes since the last time I tested shell) :)

lee.jarratt said: Can some one post a screenshot of the current build (just curious to see if their are any visual changes since the last time I tested shell) :)

First post of this thread, like always.

Merk42 said: First post of this thread, like always.

I actually wanted to see if there were any visual changes since the time those images on the 1st thread were posted. Actually..

lee.jarratt said: I actually wanted to see if there were any visual changes since the time those images on the 1st thread were posted. Actually..

and I constantly update those images

Merk42 said: and I constantly update those images

Dude, chill out. Life is good :)

What Merk42 is trying to say is that the images are current.

They are very well maintained.

I know he was, and I'm just saying chill out, because he seems to be having a bad day or something :/

Any opinions on the new notifications? I prefer the older ones.

any way to disable the empathy "in notification chat"?

i can't seem to get a regular conversation window unless i initiate the chat. :(

cariboo907 said: Any opinions on the new notifications? I prefer the older ones.

I can't wait to be a "click-to-dismiss" slave to notifications again.

after a fresh rebuild this morning , played around a bit more , FF and Opera still crashing GS , chromium and epiphany do not . the output from the terminal GS was started from seem to indicate that the problem is associated with GDK .

ronacc said: after a fresh rebuild this morning , played around a bit more , FF and Opera still crashing GS , chromium and epiphany do not . the output from the terminal GS was started from seem to indicate that the problem is associated with GDK .

Yup.... stone-dead when Firefox starts, ok with Chromium.

plun@plun-laptop:~$ gnome-shell --replace
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Fri Jun 04 2010 18:10:35 GMT+0200 (CET)
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again
Window manager warning: Log level 16: STACK_OP_LOWER_BELOW: window 0x200036e not in stack
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) serial 5341 error_code 9 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
Shell killed with signal 6

You know i really don't like gnome-shell very much.

T-rock007 said: You know i really don't like gnome-shell very much.

Join the club.

Let me briefly interrupt the club proceedings with my friendly reminder from post #18; thanks.

Why is gnome-shell still the unintuitive turd it was a few months back?

I have started an opinions thread on gnome-shell here;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1501690

I still feel that + for adding workspaces should be bigger like it was in the beginning to provide a large drop area when dragging icons over it. Sometimes the icons (or windows) completely obscure it and I can miss.

I'd tell the Gnome devs myself but am always a little nervous of their reaction.

Other than that, I'm feeling very positive about GS, and look forward to the release.

phenest said:

I'd tell the Gnome devs myself but am always a little nervous of their reaction..

They are trying to "sell" their creation to us . The customer should never be afraid of the "store" , after all he can take his buisness elsewhere .

ronacc said: They are trying to "sell" their creation to us . The customer should never be afraid of the "store" , after all he can take his buisness elsewhere .

I appreciate what you're saying, but my comment is based on past experience.

I'm looking to add the Ricotz PPA to Debian Squeeze. The one in the Debian repo is quite out of date. add-apt-repository doesn't exist in Debian. Any idea what url and key I need?

phenest said:

I'm looking to add the Ricotz PPA to Debian Squeeze. The one in the Debian repo is quite out of date. add-apt-repository doesn't exist in Debian. Any idea what url and key I need?

https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/testing

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu lucid main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu lucid main

EDIT or maybe... where is Debian Squeeze in progress...:confused:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu maverick main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu maverick main 

Howto add a key http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/05/14/add-ppa-key-to-your-apt-keyring/

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The Firefox crash is fixed in Ricotz latest version from today. !

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Lucid is closest but it won't install gjs because xulrunner must be >=1.9.2 but I only have 1.9.1 at best.

EDIT: BTW, Maverick is based on sid which is quite a way ahead of squeeze.

Thanks for any help plun, but I decided to compile it instead. I even created a .deb package too (a newly learnt skill).

I wish it didn't flicker so. :(

I compiled GS from source and have been using it for a while. I really like the idea and want to use it on everyday basis but there are two problems. The screen flickers very often and the frame rate is quite low (~10 fps). This makes my eyes hurt and reduces productivity.

I'm running Lucid 10.04 on my laptop with Core2Duo 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM and Geforce 8600M GS 256MB. Compiz runs smoothly on it. I know that GS is still under development but is there a way to solve these problems?

Should I need root privileges to compile gnome-shell or not?

And I'm currently getting this error:

$ ./gnome-shell --replace
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Mon Jun 07 2010 12:00:46 GMT+0100 (BST)
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) serial 2530 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
Shell killed with signal 6

I don't know if you "should" need root privileges , but I did on my sys , without it the build would fail trying to write a file to /usr/lib .

That sounds like the same reason that I needed to sudo the build. I was just curious as to whether there would be any unintended side affects if it was building with root privileges.

davideotape said: Should I need root privileges to compile gnome-shell or not?

And I'm currently getting this error:

$ ./gnome-shell --replace
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Mon Jun 07 2010 12:00:46 GMT+0100 (BST)
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) serial 2530 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
Shell killed with signal 6

You shouldn't need root privileges to run jhbuild build, nor ./gnome-shell --replace

I didn't think you should but without sudo it errors on me trying to write a file to /usr/lib , I'll copy down exactly which one on todays build and post it .

edit: I had copied it , here it is .

    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['gcc', '-Wall', '-pthread', '-I/home/ron/gnome-shell/install/include/gobject-introspection-1.0', '-I/usr/include/glib-2.0', '-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include', '-I/usr/include/dbus-1.0', '-I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include', '-I/usr/include/glib-2.0', '-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include', '-I/usr/include/dbus-1.0', '-I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include', '-I/usr/include/glib-2.0', '-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include', '-c', '-o', '/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository/gir/tmp-introspectCVu041/DBus-1.0.o', '/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository/gir/tmp-introspectCVu041/DBus-1.0.c']' returned non-zero exit status 1
make[2]: *** [DBus-1.0.gir] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository/gir'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gir-repository: ########## Error running make   *** [2/9]

Merk42 said: You shouldn't need root privileges to run jhbuild build, nor ./gnome-shell --replace

This is what I get after getting rid of ~/gnome-shell and starting again:

$ jhbuild build
jhbuild build: could not download http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/dstansby/.cache/jhbuild/gnome-shell.modules-'

Is there a way to just build with jhbuild and then install using root privileges? I don't feel like I want root-owned files all over my home directory. :D

davideotape said: This is what I get after getting rid of ~/gnome-shell and starting again:

$ jhbuild build
jhbuild build: could not download http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/dstansby/.cache/jhbuild/gnome-shell.modules-'

You don't need any special pirvs. just do:

sudo chown dstansby.dstansby -R ~/.cache       (for sure)
chmod +wr -R ~/.cache 

xtoudi said: You don't need any special pirvs.

just do:

sudo chown dstansby.dstansby -R ~/.cache       (for sure)
chmod +wr -R ~/.cache 

Thanks, got rid of first error. There's another one though:

][	 ]*\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)$/\1 \2 \2/p' | /bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp
libtool: relink: /bin/grep -E -e "^g_io_module_(load|unload|query)" ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp" > ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.expT"
libtool: relink: mv -f ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.expT" ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp"
libtool: relink: echo "{ global:" > .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver
libtool: relink:  cat .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp | sed -e "s/\(.*\)/\1;/" >> .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver
libtool: relink:  echo "local: *; };" >> .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver
libtool: relink:  gcc -shared  .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend_la-gconfsettingsbackend-module.o .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend_la-gconfsettingsbackend.o   -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/lib -L/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/lib -lgconf-2 -L/usr/lib -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0  -pthread -pthread   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgsettingsgconfbackend.so -Wl,-version-script -Wl,.libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver -o .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install-check .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.soT /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-giomoduleLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase install of gconf: ########## Error running make install *** [5/9]

  [1] Rerun phase install
  [2] Ignore error and continue to next module
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload 

davideotape said: Thanks, got rid of first error. There's another one though:

][	 ]*\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)$/\1 \2 \2/p' | /bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp
libtool: relink: /bin/grep -E -e "^g_io_module_(load|unload|query)" ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp" > ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.expT"
libtool: relink: mv -f ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.expT" ".libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp"
libtool: relink: echo "{ global:" > .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver
libtool: relink:  cat .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.exp | sed -e "s/\(.*\)/\1;/" >> .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver
libtool: relink:  echo "local: *; };" >> .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver
libtool: relink:  gcc -shared  .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend_la-gconfsettingsbackend-module.o .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend_la-gconfsettingsbackend.o   -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/lib -L/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/lib -lgconf-2 -L/usr/lib -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0  -pthread -pthread   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgsettingsgconfbackend.so -Wl,-version-script -Wl,.libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.ver -o .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install-check .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.soT /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-giomoduleLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase install of gconf: ########## Error running make install *** [5/9]

  [1] Rerun phase install
  [2] Ignore error and continue to next module
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload 

Need to wait ... this happens often (wait few minutes/hours). There is sth wrong with sources. I've got this too.

jhbuid build -fac 

seems to be not working neither.

Ok, the install phase of the gconf module fails as unprivileged user (libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.soT /usr/lib/gio/modules/ won't success), so I went to #gnome-shell and got this:

<fmuellner> gconf now has a backend for gsettings, which is part of the current development version of glib

<fmuellner> its install location is not determined by gconf (or the jhbuild prefix), but by the path where glib/gio expect it to be <fmuellner> it's some variable in the gio pkg-config file <fmuellner> the cleanest solution is to make the jhbuild gconf _not_ build the gsettings backend <fmuellner> at least for now - you will have to change that when we start requiring gsettings ourselves <fmuellner> add the following to .jhbuildrc-custom: <fmuellner> module_autogenargs['gconf'] = '--disable-gsettings-backend' ... <fmuellner> please mention that the solution above (--disable-gsettings-backend) will break once we move to gsettings

Seems to work, but currently there's a blocker bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620860

MacUntu said: Ok, the install phase of the gconf module fails as unprivileged user (libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.soT /usr/lib/gio/modules/ won't success), so I went to #gnome-shell and got this:

Seems to work, but currently there's a blocker bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620860

Like I said before - there is no reason to sudo jhbuild. It should work without any special user privs. Look at the first post of this thread or here, at source:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/

Can anyone tell me the best way to test. Does it virtualize yet?

Hmm, I have a ~/.jhbuildrc and a ~/.jhbuildrc-custom but no ~/.jhbuild-custon

davideotape said: Hmm, I have a ~/.jhbuildrc and a ~/.jhbuildrc-custom but no ~/.jhbuild-custon

Good catch - it's a typo, he meant ~/.jhbuildrc-custom.

themarker0 said: Can anyone tell me the best way to test. Does it virtualize yet?

You could read the first post...

As I said there, it doesn't yet work in Virtualbox. You can either build from source or use the PPA. As you may have seen from these recent posts, building from source may not work right this moment, should in a day or two provided they fix the bug. It's like testing Maverick, breakage happens from time to time.

Unfortuantly, I've tried that and I'm still getting a permission denied error:

libtool: install: /usr/bin/install-check .libs/libgsettingsgconfbackend.soT /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-giomoduleLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase install of gconf: ########## Error running make install *** [5/9]

  [1] Rerun phase install
  [2] Ignore error and continue to next module
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration

Looks like you have some leftovers, did you use 'jhbuild build -f -a -c'?

Edit: Blocker fixed, should compile now.

MacUntu said: Looks like you have some leftovers, did you use 'jhbuild build -f -a -c'?

Nope, I didn't, and now I have it's worked :D Thanks

mr_hangman said: I compiled GS from source and have been using it for a while. I really like the idea and want to use it on everyday basis but there are two problems. The screen flickers very often and the frame rate is quite low (~10 fps). This makes my eyes hurt and reduces productivity.

this is the reason i dont use it more often. the flickering does my head in. it seems to do it when anything pops up on the screen, and even sometimes flickers when you change to the overlay.

however i used the ppa instead of installing from source.

Greetings,

After trying gnome-shell and unity on my Intel graphics card, I decided to install Lucid, and give it a try on my Sony Vaio VGN-NW21SF Notebook, equiped with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 graphics card.

Software info:

Operating System: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Video Driver: fglrx 8.732-0ubuntu1 (ati website 10.5 catalyst), repository.

Gnome Shell: repository, ricoz, last build.

Unity: repository

Report: I experience the following: constant flickers, rendering problems (text is deformed, windows are not rendered), basically its unusable.

display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series OpenGL version string: 3.3.9836 Compatibility Profile Context

Update: works fine with radeon.

since yesterday I have been getting the folowing error

Generating and caching the translation database
Merging translations into mutter.desktop.
  GEN    Meta-2.31.gir
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ron/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 38, in <module>
    sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv))
  File "/home/ron/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 284, in scanner_main
    transformer.register_include(include_obj)
  File "/home/ron/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gobject-introspection/giscanner/transformer.py", line 113, in register_include
    self._parse_include(filename)
  File "/home/ron/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gobject-introspection/giscanner/transformer.py", line 134, in _parse_include
    parser = self._cachestore.load(filename)
  File "/home/ron/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gobject-introspection/giscanner/cachestore.py", line 125, in load
    fd = open(store_filename)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/ron/.cache/g-ir-scanner/981fffa3036fc02e2a752e118ad6ddef72f72a82'
make[4]: *** [Meta-2.31.gir] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/gnome-shell/source/mutter'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of mutter: ########## Error running make   *** [6/9]

I have done 3 complete wipes and started over even once removing and reinstalling jhbuild ( including ~./jhbuildrc ) no help .

Hmmm--are you still doing a "sudo jhbuild"??? I just did a full rebuild & went thru with no errors. Back when it was needing to install a file in /usr/lib I changed the permissions on that folder only so I could do a "normal" build without sudo (if you can call anything about GS "normal":lolflag:).

I really would change things that way & try it again---I pointed out the folder in question a couple of pages ago.....Other than using sudo to build in your /home, I can't think of anything that is causing your problem......if you want me to look at your build output, PM me & I'll send you my email.....

Just by looking at your info---delete your /.cache folder & do a non-sudo build--change the permissions on /usr/lib---My note from page#14> By the way--the last fresh build I did had a "interesting" error during gconf---I had to change permissions on /usr/lib/gio/modules---it wanted to install libgsettingsgconfbackend.la & .so there--I had some minor issues making that writeable, but as it was just gio not the "real" gconf lib---I let it---so far no problems with it......

I wasn't using sudo , I deleted ./cache/jhbuild and g-ir-scanner I had other things in there I didn't want to wipe so I didn't nuke the whole thing . running the build now with -f -a -c .

ok it went that time thanks .

Perfect--thought you had a permission problem from your build info---glad to see that it was a easy fix!!!

I'm glad you picked up on that , when I read through it I completely missed the permission denied .

Anyone else gettings this?

WARNING: Skipping unknown interface GtkFileChooserEmbed
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  DBusGLib-1.0.gir -o DBusGLib-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  DBus-1.0.gir -o DBus-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  GConf-2.0.gir -o GConf-2.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  Pango-1.0.gir -o Pango-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  PangoFT2-1.0.gir -o PangoFT2-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  PangoCairo-1.0.gir -o PangoCairo-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  PangoXft-1.0.gir -o PangoXft-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  Atk-1.0.gir -o Atk-1.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  GdkPixbuf-2.0.gir -o GdkPixbuf-2.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  Gdk-2.0.gir -o Gdk-2.0.typelib
/home/lightb/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --includedir=. --includedir=.  Gtk-2.0.gir -o Gtk-2.0.typelib
Gtk-2.0.gir: error: Type reference 'GModule' not found
make[2]: *** [Gtk-2.0.typelib] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lightb/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository/gir'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lightb/gnome-shell/source/gir-repository'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gir-repository: ########## Error running make   *** [2/9]

  [1] Rerun phase build
  [2] Ignore error and continue to build
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
  [7] Go to phase "configure"
  [8] Go to phase "clean"
  [9] Go to phase "distclean"
choice: 

I tried everything but cant seem to get rid of it, since yesterday when I did a rebuild.

Distro: Lucid, all packages from 1st page installed.

UPDATE: Solved, just jhbuild build -acf, new working version available.

did you try deleting everthing and starting from scratch ?

I've a very strange problem with my terminal. Once opened I get a fully blank terminal with only the blingking console....not even the uname/hostname is there...its absolutely emply and the cursor blinks in the very first pixel....And on the top of that it doesn't respond to commands.....for example typing pwd and enter will just get the letter pwd typed and cursor goes to the next line...that is the terminal just looks like an editor...i've tried with alt-f2 to invoke xterm....even xterm has the same problem....Does anyone has a solution to this problem....I'm totlally in fix and unable to proceed....I would greatly appreciate a reply.

I hate to sugest this for linux , but have you tried a reboot ? If that dont work reboot into recovery mode and update from there .

yes i did, i removed bin, jhbuild, .jhbuildrc, .jhbuilrc-custom, gnome-shell, and started again. also i downloaded the script again, and started, still nothing.

ronacc said: did you try deleting everthing and starting from scratch ?

see autocrossers post above and also delete your ~./cache or at least the jhbuild and g-ir-scanner dirs that are in there , thats what did it for me .

Sigh, still getting this:

$ ./gnome-shell --replace
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Jun 09 2010 16:40:58 GMT+0100 (BST)
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) serial 2047 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
Shell killed with signal 6

removed .cache, still nothing.

ronacc said: see autocrossers post above and also delete your ~./cache or at least the jhbuild and g-ir-scanner dirs that are in there , thats what did it for me .

David & lesnoland---

Couple of thoughts--I have been having problems using Firefox or Seamonkey in a GS session--Chrome works (not sure why--have not pinned it down good enough for a bug report)....

Do a fresh build & .tar the build file/PM me & I'll give you my Email...maybe something during build that is bonkers...

Any apps that you are running on GS session start? Stop services/apps one at a time--may be a conflict--make sure to start GS in a terminal & send/post output....

I'm at work right now---will be home/in front of my system in about 5 hours (US Pacific time---6PM)

Cheers!!!!

Dumb question maybe, but does it happen to you that the version from the repos is nice and smooth and the one from the PPA is much shakier?

The one from the repo is "stable" and very far behind development so it should be that way. It also really does not look a lot like the one from the ppa or the one you build.

There are a lot of features that you are not getting at all in the repo version.

Hey Ron--- I've opened a bug with GS...It's been bugging (oh-bad :) )me for about a week now & I know you are 64 bit like I am....here goes: All of my mozilla browsers (3.6, 3.7 testing & Seamonkey testing 2.0) will crash GS as soon as they open...I'm getting a elf class 32 error---looks like:> dean@linux:~/gnome-shell/install/bin$ ./gnome-shell --replace /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly. JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Jun 09 2010 20:38:32 GMT-0700 (PST) /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' /home/dean/.themes/Human-Blue-Lucid/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:141: Invalid color constant '##C6C7CA' Window manager warning: Log level 16: STACK_OP_LOWER_BELOW: window 0x3800486 not in stack Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) serial 7670 error_code 4 request_code 54 minor_code 0) LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] Shell killed with signal 6

Notn sure what's really going on--I've tried playing with plugins & changing some---why GS b0rks because of something that is not a problem in the normal session--I'm not sure of.....More interestingly, Google Chrome (not Chromium) with the same linked plugin library is not causing a problem....

Bug report is:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621164

This started about a week ago--not sure what commit started the problem....can you confirm or test?

Hmmm--I cleaned every single ELF Class32 error up & now I get:> dean@linux:~/gnome-shell/install/bin$ ./gnome-shell --replace Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly. JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Jun 09 2010 23:13:20 GMT-0700 (PST) Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) serial 12301 error_code 4 request_code 54 minor_code 0) Shell killed with signal 6 Again only with the Mozilla browser apps....Chrome works normally & I've found out that Opera won't work at all---but it won't crash the system either.....

Thunderbird crashes GS for me. Firefox seems to be ok, I just haven't bothered tracking the problem down yet. I'm using the ricotz ppa version.

Can you run a crash & see what the term output is? If it looks similar, add to the bug report? How close is the PPA to daily builds?

I'm not even getting to a stage where I can run anything! When I run it I get a black screen with some artefacts and a cursor, and that's it. I'll try a completely clean build today.

And a suggestion: Could the OP add to the first post which files/directories need to be removed if you want to do a clean build?

Currently not building (same output as lesnoland).

Its working for me on a fully up-to-date Lucid using the PPA. I really like GNOME Shell - mainly because I don't get screen tearing in iPlayer or YouTube any more (I've never managed to stop that with compiz).

I do have a bug or two which I've logged. The one that's a little annoying is when I click on the calendar the font is way to small to read - and its the same when I right click on anything in the Activities menu. Don't know if anyone else has that issue - I'm running on an Nvidia 8800 GTS. I do realise that its very early days for GS so I'm sure these niggles will be worked out.

Noticed a very similar bug logged upstream too (so similar I think its the same): https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599876

davideotape said: I'm not even getting to a stage where I can run anything! When I run it I get a black screen with some artefacts and a cursor, and that's it. I'll try a completely clean build today.

And a suggestion: Could the OP add to the first post which files/directories need to be removed if you want to do a clean build?

Should just be ~/gnome-shell

Added to the first post though.

Also, my old monitor was going after 10+ years, so now there are fancy new widescreen screenshots.

I must admit I was getting a bit jaded with the appearance gnome-shell (it seemed hard and inflexible) until I installed some of the themes drifting around - its looking really good now.

Peter09 said: I must admit I was getting a bit jaded with the appearance gnome-shell (it seemed hard and inflexible) until I installed some of the themes drifting around - its looking really good now.

Links? What one are you using? More information please?

Here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1418056

and http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/5-amazing-gnome-shell-themes-and-how-to.html

as a quick look I cannot find the theme I'm using - I'll keep looking. It has a lot of transparency in it which makes it feel softer.

It will work now, I spoke with some people on irc.gnome.org, and it seems it was an ubuntu only issue, but it has been fixed, it works for me at least, you just need to to jhbuild build -acf, or just step 6 again.

MacUntu said: Currently not building (same output as lesnoland).

autocrosser said: Can you run a crash & see what the term output is? If it looks similar, add to the bug report? How close is the PPA to daily builds?

With the ppa update yesterday, Thunderbird didn't crash today. :)

The version I'm using is gnome-shell_2.31.2+git20100610

lesnoland said: It will work now, I spoke with some people on irc.gnome.org, and it seems it was an ubuntu only issue

I already wondered why there's no bug report about that blocker - now I know. :D

lesnoland said: it works for me at least

Yes, for me too. Until it breaks again, of course. QUICK! QUICK! Compile while it's working! ):P

PS: do you guys also get the "fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer" every now and then during checkout?

MacUntu said: I already wondered why there's no bug report about that blocker - now I know. :D

Yes, for me too. Until it breaks again, of course. QUICK! QUICK! Compile while it's working! ):P

PS: do you guys also get the "fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer" every now and then during checkout?

Yes---normally during mutter or clutter checkout.....I just rerun it & then I get a complete build....

Just in case someone gets the wrong colors on the screen (blue turns to brown, yellow to blue, etc), and you are using mesa radeon use the following patch:

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/attachment.cgi?id=2001

from here:

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2100

I have a question. If I previously installed GS from the PPA and now want to try from source, what should I uninstall from the package manager? Is it only gnome-shell or everything that was pulled in (git, mutter,...)? Right now I'm having this warning every time there is an update in the package manager

*** Error during phase build of gobject-introspection: ########## Error running make   *** [1/9]

  [1] Rerun phase build
  [2] Ignore error and continue to build
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
  [7] Go to phase "configure"
  [8] Go to phase "clean"
  [9] Go to phase "distclean"

Major change on building GS this evening....several new parts--ATK, GTK+, Pango---13 total build parts--major increase in download time.

Commit log: > Use GSettings for all Shell configuration. GConf is kept to read configuration from external programs (Metacity, Nautilus and Magnifier), but ShellGConf is removed because it's mostly useless for the few calls we still have. Also get rid of unused GConf code in ShellAppSystem. A basic GConf schema is still used to override Metacity defaults and configure Magnifier in a system-wide fashion. GConf is also used as GSettings backend via the GSETTINGS_BACKEND environment variable. All of this will be removed when these programs have been ported to GSettings and able to use dconf. GLib 2.25.9 is required. Schemas are converted to the new XML format, and compiled at build time in data/ so that the Shell can be run from the source tree. This also requires setting the GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR environment variable both when running installed or from source tree, in src/gnome-shell.in and src/gnome-shell-clock-preferences.in. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617917 Be ready for a long download & do a complete rebuild--lots of changes!!!!! FYI---GTK+ is a 164mb load it self!!!!!

I just tried this new build after a long download. The build get stuck in step 8/13. This is the error

configure: WARNING: *** TIFF loader will not be built (TIFF library not found) ***
configure: error: 
*** Checks for TIFF loader failed. You can build without it by passing
*** --without-libtiff to configure but some programs using GTK+ may
*** not work properly
*** Error during phase configure of gtk+: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/tian/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib'  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [8/13]

  [1] Rerun phase configure
  [2] Ignore error and continue to clean
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
  [7] Go to phase "clean"
  [8] Go to phase "distclean"
choice: 

The choice [1] and [5] brings me back to the same warning. [2] just skips step 8/13 and continue. [3] quits the build. [4] says 'exit shell to continue with build' and gives me back the prompt. [6],[7] and [8] give another warning

*** Distcleaning gtk+ *** [8/13]
make   distclean
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.

and the options are reduced to [1]-[5].

Does anybody have any idea what's wrong with my system? Right now I cannot compile gnome shell at all :???:.

Just install libtiff4-dev. It is required for GTK+.

If you've added ``` module_autogenargs['gconf'] = '--disable-gsettings-backend'

Thank you. Installing libtiff4-dev solved the problem. Now when I run ./gnome-shell --replace, I get an error

Failed to start shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gnome-shell", line 701, in <module>
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 254, in run_shell
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 202, in start_shell
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 127, in _get_glx_extensions
    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

I followed the instructions I found but they seem to be quite old and don't work anymore.

Edited: I reinstalled all dependencies from the repo and it's working now :). Thanks

I have tried to build gnome shell from source I have this error message on ubuntu 10.04 lucid

/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `pango_fc_font_create_metrics_for_context' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [test-theme] Error 1

any idea ?

Thanks

In a case where you have a non-build:

jhbuild build -f -a -c

1. Try building with```

2. If you still have a non-build, trash your entire ~/gnome-shell folder & do a fresh build.
3. If none of the above works---wait 24 hrs & try again---sometimes commits get "stuck".

I am going to have to put this on one of my installs. Sounds like there has been a lot of change.

I installed UNE on my desktop and I have been impressed with it. It actually seems more usable, to me, than GS.

That is not fair though as I have not seen GS since before the end of 10.04-testing. going to have to get on the stick here.

It looks a bit different--lots of changes under the hood--seeing the start of gtk3--code from the new gdm, etc, etc....They are phasing in the new schema code--edited xml & other fun toys ;) Look at my #227 posting.....

All in all good fun whilst Maverick is a bit boring.....

autocrosser said: It looks a bit different--lots of changes under the hood--seeing the start of gtk3--code from the new gdm, etc, etc....They are phasing in the new schema code--edited xml & other fun toys ;) Look at my #227 posting.....

All in all good fun whilst Maverick is a bit boring.....

The only UI difference I noticed was the icon next to your name in the upper right

The applications list sorting has been changed--the old side menu thing has been dropped--changes in the way the notifications area is displayed (ubuntu-specific ways are reverted) & a couple of other things that I'm not remembering right now.....there have been a couple of interesting commits as of late.....

Most of the interesting things are not visible--adding Pango, GTK+, ATK & a couple of other depends to the build.

More info: the Applications in overlay has been divided into three sub-groups--Apps, Games & Tools.

One of the "interesting" commits:> Canonical replaced status icons with libindicator based solutions, which don't work in the shell environment. Force the distro-patched versions to fall-back to upstream. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621382

Another one:> Add animated display of startup notification The shell design says that upon launching an application, no X window should have focus, and we should display an animated launching indicator. Implement this by in panel.js, keep track of the last started application. If there isn't currently an X focus, show an animation for the last starting application. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598349

I wonder when they'll do something about GS's speed - everything feels sluggish on my two test systems (especially when compared to the Unity shell, but I guess that's no fair comparison).

Hey I've been trying to get gnome-shell working on 10.04 for a while using all 3 install methods but they never seem to work. Any who last night I did a clean install and I know have a partition with 10.10 alpha on it aswell as my 10.04 partition. I'm using the maverick partition just to much around and test things out. I tried installing gnome shell from the repo's (to see if I could even get it started) and what a surprise, nothing. Here's the output:

josh@josh-desktop:~$ gnome-shell --replace

(mutter:23316): mutter-WARNING **: Plugin API mismatch for [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so]
^CShell killed with signal 2
josh@josh-desktop:~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
compiz (core) - Warn: SmcOpenConnection failed: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

If anyone has any idea how to fix this it would be most appreciated. I might try installing gnome shell the jhbuild way but I can't imagine it working anyway.

Thanks, Josh

I Build Gnome Shell from source this morning. I did this a few months ago and I have to say it's coming along nice and stable.

One question I have is in the top right corner by my name there is a Network Applet and what looks like Gnome Control Center Applet.

I've tried everything, right,left, middle clicking. It doesn't do anything. Anyone else have this problem? Is their a work around for this?

I'm of to check out some Gnome Shell Themes. :p

joshmuffin said: Hey I've been trying to get gnome-shell working on 10.04 for a while using all 3 install methods but they never seem to work. Any who last night I did a clean install and I know have a partition with 10.10 alpha on it aswell as my 10.04 partition. I'm using the maverick partition just to much around and test things out. I tried installing gnome shell from the repo's (to see if I could even get it started) and what a surprise, nothing.

Here's the output:

josh@josh-desktop:~$ gnome-shell --replace

(mutter:23316): mutter-WARNING **: Plugin API mismatch for [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so]
^CShell killed with signal 2
josh@josh-desktop:~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
compiz (core) - Warn: SmcOpenConnection failed: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

If anyone has any idea how to fix this it would be most appreciated. I might try installing gnome shell the jhbuild way but I can't imagine it working anyway.

Thanks, Josh

Do you have these Packages installed?

sudo apt-get install mutter mutter-common gir1.0-clutter-1.0 libclutter-1.0-0 gjs gir1.0-freedesktop gir1.0-glib-2.0 gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-0

Any chance that we could have libtiff4-dev added to the packages in the original post - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9482358&postcount=229

davideotape said: Any chance that we could have libtiff4-dev added to the packages in the original post - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9482358&postcount=229

Is that mandatory now or just a temporary workaround?

I should think it's mandatory if GTK+ is being built. And I'm still getting a right mess when starting gnome-shell (clean build from source) -

$ ./gnome-shell --replace
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sun Jun 20 2010 13:36:30 GMT+0100 (BST)

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:24235): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:24235): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again
^CShell killed with signal 2
dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/gnome-shel

davideotape said: Any chance that we could have libtiff4-dev added to the packages in the original post - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9482358&postcount=229

Have you tried downloading it? It's just a package.

Merk42 have you seen my post on building the shell from src? http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9486605&postcount=240

wojox said: Have you tried downloading it? It's just a package.

Yes, I've installed it, I just thought it might be a good idea to get it put in the original post as a package that needs installing from the Ubuntu repo before building gnome-shell.

davideotape said: Yes, I've installed it, I just thought it might be a good idea to get it put in the original post as a package that needs installing from the Ubuntu repo before building gnome-shell.

Okay, I follow what your saying now. :p

Added libtiff4-dev to the OP

wojox said: Merk42 have you seen my post on building the shell from src? http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9486605&postcount=240The network manager for me works the same as it does using GNOME Panel

Do other people with laptops still experience the slowness of GS? I haven't tried attaching another monitor to see if it speeds up. Like this it is to laggy to use comfortably.

Nr90 said: Do other people with laptops still experience the slowness of GS?

I haven't tried attaching another monitor to see if it speeds up. Like this it is to laggy to use comfortably.

Well, I do note that window movement feels like it is a few frames behind. Metacity composited and Compiz do a way better job of moving the window. And going into the overlay stutters.

Tested on NVIDIA 9800 GT with nvidia drivers.

I'm not sure why it would depend on whether or not you are on a laptop. Anyway, it works fine on mine. Although, I do get that screen flicker sometimes (possibly related to propriety nvidia drivers?).

I just noticed this too. The window movement is indeed slower than the mouse. The frame rate of the effects is also low including video in overlay mode. I'm on NVIDIA 8600M GS with proprietary driver.

It's to do with the nvidia cards---I'm running a SLI-dual 9800GT set & I get a couple of frames behind also...

Merk42 said: Added libtiff4-dev to the OP

The network manager for me works the same as it does using GNOME Panel

Okay I rebooted and every thing is fine. :p

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=157326

This should give people not using xserver 1.9 reduced flickering (if any) and increased performance.

Source: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613936

Mblackwell said: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=157326 [COLOR="Red"]look the date:[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001[/COLOR]

This should give people not using xserver 1.9 reduced flickering (if any) and increased performance.

Source: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613936

so few years later :confused:

Uh... Huh? The patch hasn't been around that long. Just since March. The fix isn't really a fix, it's a workaround for a bug in Xserver that was tracked down and fixed in 1.9. Read the bug report before making comments like that...

Just downloaded the latest update from the ricotz repository. Gnome-shell fails to install and leaves me with a screen that flickers and is unresponsive.

Add animated display of startup notification

The shell design says that upon launching an application, no X window should have focus, and we should display an animated launching indicator. Implement this by in panel.js, keep track of the last started application. If there isn't currently an X focus, show an animation for the last starting application. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598349

Is there anyone here who can tell me where can I find this in GS?? I usually rebuild all my GS ever day, right after new commits in http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell ... I noticed this commit a few days ago and so far I don't see any effects According to commit thread (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598349) should be an animated effect right on/after application name ... top panel.

after an update from Ricotz repository I am getting this erro.

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.shell' is not installed

and gnome-shell fails to run. Any hints?

dependecies are off

remove gnome-shell

install libglib2.0-dev

reinstall gnome-shell

voila

Is anyone else having this? I tried to file a bug but the server seems to be having an issue. Whenever I restart Gnome Shell it resets my custom settings now, including my favorites and my current workspace view to linear.

+1

Good to know. I filed a bug, actually 3, since I noticed you can't move windows between workspaces rapidly, and worse I noticed for some reason now changing the resolution while in gnome shell causes X to freeze.

Peter09 said: after an update from Ricotz repository I am getting this erro.

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.shell' is not installed

and gnome-shell fails to run. Any hints?

Same here, Tried what Youoh posted, but didn't help.

Have you made a bug?

No not had chance to put a bug report in yet.

youoh said: +1

Update the PPA. It's resolved now.

Peter09 said: after an update from Ricotz repository I am getting this erro.

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.shell' is not installed

and gnome-shell fails to run. Any hints?

I found I needed to run:

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schema

Does anyone else have this issue with the current design of Gnome-Shell. I have a wide screen HP Pavilion laptop 17" type job, nearly a desktop :)

Anyway in the overview mode with two or more workspaces open, if I want to drag an application to a 'far' workspace I run out of touchpad room. Lifting a finger to move backwards to continue the drag leaves the application in a 'near' workspace.

While, I guess, this is not a really big issue, it just makes things a bit clumsy.

Peter09 said: Does anyone else have this issue with the current design of Gnome-Shell.

I have a wide screen HP Pavilion laptop 17" type job, nearly a desktop :)

Anyway in the overview mode with two or more workspaces open, if I want to drag an application to a 'far' workspace I run out of touchpad room. Lifting a finger to move backwards to continue the drag leaves the application in a 'near' workspace.

While, I guess, this is not a really big issue, it just makes things a bit clumsy.

Can't you just change your mouse settings?

that's not really a software problem. you wouldn't file a bug because your mouse reached the edge of your physical desk.

I quit using the shell since I install Lucid, I come back and it is amazing. The Gnome developers really know what we need in a user interface.

Of course it is not perfect. I could do with the activities animation being redone a little. It feels sluggish once you are used to it. Though I like the comfort of an animated interface.

Peter09 said: Does anyone else have this issue with the current design of Gnome-Shell.

I have a wide screen HP Pavilion laptop 17" type job, nearly a desktop :)

Anyway in the overview mode with two or more workspaces open, if I want to drag an application to a 'far' workspace I run out of touchpad room. Lifting a finger to move backwards to continue the drag leaves the application in a 'near' workspace.

While, I guess, this is not a really big issue, it just makes things a bit clumsy.

I agree. I think the "Add Workspaces +" button would be better made larger and positioned nearer the Applications panel.

I installed from source without a problem. Running Maverick with nvidia. Using Amarok & Thunderbird w/ firetray plugin. I tried GS a few weeks ago & didn't like it but I'm trying it again. I played around with the .css file & some of the .js files, changed fonts, reduced Icon size to fit more in applications menu, etc. After those minor tweaks I'm starting to get used to it. Now I think GS is starting to show some real promise. Just a few minor issues I stumbled across; 1) The openoffice tray icon isn't there, although the quickstarter does seem to be active, just no icon. 2) I had to add the volume icon to startup programs. I don't really mind that I had to add it manually, at least I have a volume in the panel now. 3) Could someone tell me how to make the date on the panel say, like, "Monday July 5" instead of "Mon Jul 5" ?

I like the applications area. It looks great. But I would rather it list all open applications, not just the one in foreground. And I'd prefer it on a bottom panel along with a trashcan & the ability to add applets.

Ok, the openoffice quickstarter icon just showed up for some reason. I don't know why. Weird.

larsenguitars said: 3) Could someone tell me how to make the date on the panel say, like, "Monday July 5" instead of "Mon Jul 5" ?

I like the applications area. It looks great. But I would rather it list all open applications, not just the one in foreground. And I'd prefer it on a bottom panel along with a trashcan & the ability to add applets.

3) Right click and select Preferences. You can change the format there.

As for applets, there are no Applets in Gnome Shell. There's no such thing. And the bottom panel is reserved for notifications and tray icons (eventually).

As for the application icon on the top panel that will eventually be full menu of some kind for that application. I can't recall if it's completely spec-ed out yet.

Gnome-shell still refuses to work properly for me:

~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
Starting dconf-service...  started
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Tue Jul 06 2010 14:08:45 GMT+0100 (BST)

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:18206): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:18206): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed
^CShell killed with signal 2

I think the current default theme for gnome-shell does not do it any favors, it provides a very hard look to the interface. It really should be changed now to give a softer experience. Making a softer theme overcomes (somewhat) the criticism of context change from workspace to overlay.

I have been using GS for some time now and think its very good. indeed switching back to normal gnome is annoying, fiddling with all those long menus.

The dock in the overlay is excellent and the ability to just hit the windows key and start typing a name to get to application, once you realize you can do it, is a great time saver.

I also use the overlay mode to monitor multiple windows (email, player, terminal etc) from the same view.

I've attached my current desktop, which is themed. (not designed by me).

That is a really cool theme! :)

Peter09 said: I've attached my current desktop, which is themed. (not designed by me).

Where did you get that one? looks quite good!!

Its one of the themes from this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1418056

Unfortunately I'm not quite sure which one it is, I think it may be from post 71 in the thread. Anyway I'll attach the theme here.

Heads up everyone!!!! Major changes to the build tonight----GTK3 has been included along with all the depends. I have been building/downloading for over 35 minutes now & am at 8/21---looks like MAJOR changes to the shell are in order.

autocrosser said: Heads up everyone!!!! Major changes to the build tonight----GTK3 has been included along with all the depends. I have been building/downloading for over 35 minutes now & am at 8/21---looks like MAJOR changes to the shell are in order.

so exciting. will this improve speed/performance?

I'm not sure---yet.... I had 3 errors on the build, so I'm doing a clean rebuild---almost thru & will post after with impressions.....

Well---It's a "wait & see"---2 errors in the final build (gnome-shell) with a non-run.....Looks like I need to trash my current install & totally start from scratch again....Or they have not updated the gnome-shell builds....

Run trace looks like this:

dean@linux:~/gnome-shell/install/bin$ ./gnome-shell --replaceGtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly. JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@:0 ("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:18 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded' JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@:0 ("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:18 Error("Chained exception")@:0 ("Chained exception")@gjs_throw:0 @<main>:1 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded' Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded /home/dean/.themes/MurrinaLoveGray/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:50: Murrine configuration option "scrollbar_color" is no longer supported and will be ignored. Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly.

I tried going back to the very beginning and it wanted to install a few more dependencies: sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev

unfortunately, this happens

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting libtiff4-dev instead of libtiff-dev
libtiff4-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libpng12-dev instead of libpng-dev
libpng12-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libjpeg62-dev instead of libjpeg-dev
libjpeg62-dev is already the newest version.

So when you try to rerun /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh it still complains of the same dependencies

Yes--I just did the jhbuild (bypassing /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh) & got a build----but there is a part of gtk3 that is giving the gnome-shell final build fits. (it can't build the test-theme & bombs out) I'm going to wait until tomorrow to see if things are ironed out.....

^I'm getting that as well. I'm doing a rebuild to see if it works, otherwise like you I might have to wait until tomorrow or something for it to work.

I'm also still getting this error when using gnome-shell.

Clutter-WARNING **: The required ID of 65948 does not refer to an existing actor; 
this usually implies that the pick()
of an actor is not correctly implemented or that there is an error in the glReadPixels()
implementation of the GL driver.

<russo79> Saner: Try using this file (http://pastebin.com/ytpgBxbT) instead of gnome-shell-build-setup.sh <russo79> Saner: I explicitly set the dependencies of ubuntu packages.

Cant say its going to work because I am still building, but it solves the dependencies issue.

I have not been able to get Gnome3 running since the Safe-Upgrade yesterday - I have had it running in the past though and it looked quite good.

The desktop Mutter is great for me ..... have added Cairo Dock and it gives it a really clean professional feel ..... and can choose all the 4 desktops and run most programs.

Ksnapshot would not work from the Gmenu ..... but runs fine from a terminal window, dragged and dropped the icon in that works in Gnome Desktop ..... but when switching here it stops working ......

Here is the way it looks if you can ignore the terminal window ..... it has a E17 feel to it.

I like this Desktop the way it is and it will now stay like this on my computer ...... ( To log out and use another desktop if you set it up this way - use the middle mouse button on the red exit off switch - took some finding so thought I would mention it here - for those that do not know about it )

I followed this ..... to try to set up Gnome3 (Gnome-shell) but its not working yet the screen goes completely white as it goes in .... which is odd ..... similar to what compiz would do when it was not going to work in the early days .........

Ok got it running after adding the dependencies at the beginning of this thread

aptitude install curl libtiff4-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libcroco3-dev xserver-xephyr xulrunner-dev python-dev mesa-utils mesa-common-dev libreadline5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libwnck-dev librsvg2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-menu-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev gtk-doc-tools gnome-common git-core flex bison automake build-essential

Gnome 3

Will start testing it now .... ksnapshot works from the find option now in Activities ......

(Was going to use Gtk-recordmydesktop to make a video of it ...... but the top menu bar disappears when going into record mode ..... also the ogv files are turning into garbage on You-Tube and in Openshot ..... seems to be the file format works ok in VLC though bizarre ? has it changed ? used to be able to put my tutorials staight into You-Tube what's happened here then ? go down to the bottom of the link page if you want to see the results ....)

Here is the raw OGV file its 9 Meg if anybody wants to check it out .........

Wow just had 70 degrees on the thermal reading for the Graphics Card ....... usually runs around 56 - 58 ....... dropped back into normal Gnome and already its dropped 3-4 degrees ....... might be that I was running video ..... but its the highest I have ever seen on this computer ...... the battery feels hot too ...... but not sure how to check the thermal reading for that though ....... will turn it all off for time being ......... and try again tomorrow or tonight with this computer ..... it is an extremely hot day here .......

The feel of Gnome 3 could grow on me ..... very organised and easy to use ....

Go to the... lace of lost voices.... ther.. great power... find what you seek. :)

If it is a very hot day I advise you store your battery somewhere room temperature. It is not good for a battery to be in 90f temperatures. I do not think Gnome Shell should cause much overhead if it is not constanly animating, because that should be done by the graphics card. What chip do you have?

autocrosser said: Well---It's a "wait & see"---2 errors in the final build (gnome-shell) with a non-run.....Looks like I need to trash my current install & totally start from scratch again....Or they have not updated the gnome-shell builds....

Run trace looks like this:

dean@linux:~/gnome-shell/install/bin$ ./gnome-shell --replaceGtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly. JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@:0 ("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:18 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded' JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw' JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@:0 ("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded")@gjs_throw:0 @/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:18 Error("Chained exception")@:0 ("Chained exception")@gjs_throw:0 @<main>:1 ' JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded' Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded /home/dean/.themes/MurrinaLoveGray/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:50: Murrine configuration option "scrollbar_color" is no longer supported and will be ignored. Window manager warning: Workarounds for broken applications disabled. Some applications may not behave properly.

From what I see, there is a check for gtk 2.0 but 3.0 is there instead. Just change the check. It should be on or at least referenced on line 18 of /home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js. It should run after that or at least give some more interesting errors.

NightwishFan said: Go to the... lace of lost voices.... ther.. great power... find what you seek. :)

If it is a very hot day I advise you store your battery somewhere room temperature. It is not good for a battery to be in 90f temperatures. I do not think Gnome Shell should cause much overhead if it is not constanly animating, because that should be done by the graphics card. What chip do you have?

Cheers .....

I have just had a good read up on the batteries ....

I think I will take it out ....... the computer is dual core 2.1 ghz .... and when doing nothing was 70% on both processors ,,,,,, its having a rest now as it went back up to 70 again in Gnome3 ..... it drops at least 5 degrees when I return to Gnome ...... am constantly aware of the problems with the graphics drivers from the last overheating of Graphics Cards ..... the battery is another thing ..... but its not that far away from the Graphics card ........

I have just upgraded and noticed at first a drop in temps on the 9300 Nvidia Graphics Card ....... after the upgrade ,,,,,,,,,,

I have a Desktop and running the same latest Nvidia driver that is low at 46 degrees a big difference,

Will try again later its getting dark here now and the temps do drop .........

I am on a different laptop at the moment so I cannot give a great deal of information yet .........

Here is the link showing the Thermal at 69 degrees .

http://sites.google.com/site/keithaerospace92/mylinks

This thread is drifting away from gnome-shell testing, please start new threads for anything not pertaining to gnome-shell.

I have been only running and using gnome3 ..... for 5 hours today after the latest upgrades ..... My main applications used today were Blender Wings3d and Firefox it dropped out of Firefox once for some strange reason then auto resumed (will check and see if it was recorded in the logs). The GPU is at 61 degrees ..... even though its exceptionally hot here again but this Temp 61 is ok now using gnome3.

This is all I can see a Seg Fault by Mutter ..... but I do not understand it ...... this info was taken from the Syslog

Jul 10 16:05:00 keith-laptop kernel: [ 6231.761940] mutter[1936]: segfault at fe8f8f8f ip 00a13a19 sp bfc0af70 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2510.0[9b9000+c9000] Jul 10 16:09:01 keith-laptop CRON[5874]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm) Jul 10 16:17:01 keith-laptop CRON[5939]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Jul 10 16:39:01 keith-laptop CRON[6146]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm) Jul 10 16:39:39 keith-laptop kernel: [ 8310.653070] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec Jul 10 16:45:11 keith-laptop kernel: [ 8643.153082] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 16875 nsec Jul 10 17:09:01 keith-laptop CRON[6465]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm) Jul 10 17:17:01 keith-laptop CRON[6542]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

The version of Maverick I am running here is a Upgrade from Lucid Lynx 10.04 to 10.10 .......... keith@keith-laptop:~$ uname -a Linux keith-laptop 2.6.35-6-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 30 23:09:46 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

(Once I work out how to upgrade the Kernel without the automatic Grub Update destroying my menu System -

Its sorted ...... LOVE it MAVERICK ROCKS .. >>>>>>

The Grub update works on Aptitude Safe-Upgrade without getting rid of my menu now .........

My menu system is still at 1440x900 and my nice background to the menu that I have set up is still there - great.

keith@keith-laptop:~$ uname -a Linux keith-laptop 2.6.35-7-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 9 21:09:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux keith@keith-laptop:~$

I just removed gnome-shell folder in my home and started jhbuild from nothing. The compilation got stuck at step 20/21 and gave this error,

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/tian/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src'
  CCLD   test-theme
/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring_array'
/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring'
/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Does anybody have this problem?

mr_hangman said: I just removed gnome-shell folder in my home and started jhbuild from nothing.

The compilation got stuck at step 20/21 and gave this error,

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/tian/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src'
  CCLD   test-theme
/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring_array'
/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring'
/home/tian/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Does anybody have this problem?

Looks like you need glib newer than this commit 3 days ago where g_variant_new_bytestring_array is introduced:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=d9e90c3894739bdfa642e35bdea866c6d0ab7ef2

BwackNinja said: Looks like you need glib newer than this commit 3 days ago where g_variant_new_bytestring_array is introduced:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=d9e90c3894739bdfa642e35bdea866c6d0ab7ef2

I'm sorry but I have no idea how to get a newer glib. Do you have an instruction on that?

Hey guys, I added the PPA to my repos, did a apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade, installed gnome-shell and did the old gnome-shell --replace

My terminal threw this back at me...

Starting dconf-service...  
Failed to start /usr/lib/gnome-shell/dconf-service: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

any ideas here?

Same here. I have been using Ricotz's ppa for months now. gnome-shell just stopped working today after an update. Hopefully, this will be fixed with another update soon.

After I added the PPA and did the update and upgrade ......

I also did the following .......... then it worked OK ......... I am running Gnome3 now and have added all the latest updates - also re booted and still ok .......

( Ok I got it running after adding the dependencies at the beginning of this thread - you could try this )

aptitude install curl libtiff4-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libcroco3-dev xserver-xephyr xulrunner-dev python-dev mesa-utils mesa-common-dev libreadline5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libwnck-dev librsvg2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-menu-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev gtk-doc-tools gnome-common git-core flex bison automake build-essential

23dornot23d said:

aptitude install curl libtiff4-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libcroco3-dev xserver-xephyr xulrunner-dev python-dev mesa-utils mesa-common-dev libreadline5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libwnck-dev librsvg2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-menu-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev gtk-doc-tools gnome-common git-core flex bison automake build-essential

Tried that, didn't work. It seems you are building gnome-shell from source, which explains all those *-dev packages. I am trying to use the binaries built in ricotz/testing ppa.

I'm just wondering if anyone is using gnome shell from the standard maverick or lucid repos? It's a while since I gave it a whirl but it refuses to install on either lucid or maverick due to a version dependency problem.

I've found the ricotz ppa gives me problems (mainly with unity) and I just don't do compiling anymore (gentoo put me off that for life).

I'm just wondering if anyone is using gnome shell from the standard maverick or lucid repos?

It's a while since I gave it a whirl but it refuses to install on either lucid or maverick due to a version dependency problem.

I've found the ricotz ppa gives me problems (mainly with unity) and I just don't do compiling anymore (gentoo put me off that for life).

The version of mutter that Unity uses is different from the version that gnome-shell uses, so you're bound to have problems.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm not really after building gnome-shell from source though. Just to clarify, is gnome-shell the same thing as gnome3 ??

KdotJ said: Just to clarify, is gnome-shell the same thing as gnome3 ??

No

GNOME-Shell is only one aspect of GNOME 3. Others are GTK3+ and Zeitgeist

As such you'll be able to use GNOME3's GTK3+ and Zeitgeist, yet still use GNOME 2.X's panel interface.

Merk42 said: No

GNOME-Shell is only one aspect of GNOME 3. Others are GTK3+ and Zeitgeist

As such you'll be able to use GNOME3's GTK3+ and Zeitgeist, yet still use GNOME 2.X's panel interface.

Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up for me. So the user can pick an choose aspects? (but not have gnome-shell with the gnome 2.x panels?) how can I test gnome3 now?

KdotJ said: Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up for me.

So the user can pick an choose aspects? (but not have gnome-shell with the gnome 2.x panels?) how can I test gnome3 now?

Read the first post of this thread... (keep in mind there are currently some issues building due to a massive change)

Merk42 said: Read the first post of this thread...

(keep in mind there are currently some issues building due to a massive change)

Thanks Merk42, but this is for gnome-shell. I was wonderig how to I stall and play around with the other aspects of gnome3 which were outlined a to me in the last few posts. Recently, gnome-shell won't load for m, but I'm assuimg this is due to the current big updates then

Ok--I found the bug that was causing GS to do a non-build: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623952

Apparently, there is a problem with .la files in /usr/lib---the "fix" is to move all the .la files out into a backup file. I will be looking at the files to see which one is causing the problem & add the info to the report & post it here.......

With the fix, GS can build without errors---I do not see any "major" differences using gtk3, however there is a noticeable speed improvement dragging windows around with my Nvidia SLI card setup---"almost" real time movement now---I'm sure that the Intel & ATI card users will see some improvement also......The flash during animation is mostly gone--I do see it 1 out of 4~5 times now--it use to be every time, so that is a real plus also.

According previous post: There is sth wrong with /usr/lib/libfreetype.la.

With this lib I've got

/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring_array'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_set_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_param_spec_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_is_floating'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_dcgettext'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_get_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_error_get_type'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_source_set_name'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_dup_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_compare'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring'

without lib:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la'

This library should be compiled with GS - and is missing...I think.

xtoudi said: According previous post:

There is sth wrong with /usr/lib/libfreetype.la.

With this lib I've got

/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring_array'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_set_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_param_spec_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_is_floating'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_dcgettext'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_get_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_error_get_type'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_source_set_name'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_dup_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_compare'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring'

without lib:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la'

If you delete the gnome-shell folder and rebuild from scratch it should go away. At least it did for me.

Something like:

rm -rf ~/gnome-shell jhbuild build

quickridge said: If you delete the gnome-shell folder and rebuild from scratch it should go away. At least it did for me.

Something like:

rm -rf ~/gnome-shell jhbuild build

I did it 4 times today (morning) ... ok once again ;-)

I'm not sure if it does anything (updates the jhbuild thingy) but you could also do:

bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh

before running the build. I'm just getting this from the bugzilla listing linked above

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9576769#post9576769

I did this before running the build but am not sure if it did anything.

Very sleek, but I'm an old fashion kinda linux guy(even though I'm young). I boot up into a graphical interface, where I can get most of my development work done and all, then I can start X with "startx", which loads up my openbox setup(with a sexy tint2 toolbar and custom conky script) where I can get my leisure and web browsing done(well web browsing with images).

However I'm starting to get turned off by Ubuntu itself, but I like the community, I like Debian, and I like ubuntus more cutting edge repos, since I like the latest and greatest, regardless of my old fashioness.

Just hoping Ubuntu keeps everything more Linuxy, and stops trying to copy other OS's/UIs and does its own thing. Keep the flexiblity and customization aspect of Linux in Ubuntu, but of course make it a bit easier for the new comers.

Just don't forget, Ubuntu still has advanced/power users, and its supposed to be linux for EVERYBODY, and they seem to be forgetting.

ov3rcl0ck said: Very sleek, but I'm an old fashion kinda linux guy(even though I'm young). I boot up into a graphical interface, where I can get most of my development work done and all, then I can start X with "startx", which loads up my openbox setup(with a sexy tint2 toolbar and custom conky script) where I can get my leisure and web browsing done(well web browsing with images).

However I'm starting to get turned off by Ubuntu itself, but I like the community, I like Debian, and I like ubuntus more cutting edge repos, since I like the latest and greatest, regardless of my old fashioness.

Just hoping Ubuntu keeps everything more Linuxy, and stops trying to copy other OS's/UIs and does its own thing. Keep the flexiblity and customization aspect of Linux in Ubuntu, but of course make it a bit easier for the new comers.

Just don't forget, Ubuntu still has advanced/power users, and its supposed to be linux for EVERYBODY, and they seem to be forgetting.

Interesting point---but Gnome developers are doing this---not Ubuntu. You CAN still do things your own way in Ubuntu. Personally, I really like the way GS is going & have helped alpha & "beta" test it from the very first.

quickridge said: I'm not sure if it does anything (updates the jhbuild thingy) but you could also do:

bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh

before running the build. I'm just getting this from the bugzilla listing linked above

I did this before running the build but am not sure if it did anything.

After running bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh how do you get around the following error?

Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

I did that and it installs packages versions with numbers in file name, so the dependency error still comes up.

Merk42 said: After running bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh how do you get around the following error?

Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

Bug Report on the build script: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624009

If you do the patch as per info in the report, the build script works correctly.

I'm working in the newest GS right now---what a relief to have a build that works again!!!!! Patched version of build script attached.....

This dependency error came up again? "Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again."

or are you talking about all those undefined references that occur during the build phase of gnome-shell.

If its the former than you are probably seeing some other bug with the build script for gnome-shell and should report it (verify that those packages were properly installed first). If its the latter than I would just go to that bug report that was linked to earlier and see what they have to say there.

cariboo907 said: The version of mutter that Unity uses is different from the version that gnome-shell uses, so you're bound to have problems.

Yes, which is why I was inquiring about the gnome shell in the standard repos and if anyone has it working?

I have had in the past, but it's old and doesn't have a lot of the stuff the PPA has, and even less than if you compile it from source. Though right now I can't get anything to work

OK, I did a aptitude safe-upgrade and now it works... Slow... but it works lol

Is the ricotz ppa really that far behind a daily build of gnome-shell? I've been building it for myself for a while, so just curious.

KdotJ said: OK, I did a aptitude safe-upgrade and now it works...

Slow... but it works lol

I found it slow going into the Desktop ... but I also load Cairo-Dock .... which takes a little extra time ........

But once the Desktop loaded :- it was as fast as my normal Gnome Desktop .....

I had Blender Wings3d and (Namoroka open with 29 tabs) and in Blender it was as fast at rendering and moving objects about. I have also added Gimp 2.7.2 and it compiled ok and runs well so far.

How are you judging the speed ?

( the one thing I do not like is it goes into screensaver mode and you cannot press the shift key or move the mouse to stop it ) ( it fades out to a black screen and the login ....... as its fading there is nothing that you can do to stop it ...... shift - space - escape )

Is there a way to measure the speed - like a Benchmark test somewhere ........ ?

I will have a look around ..... but if anyone has a link to one at hand please post it .... ty

I've been using gnome-shell for quite a while now and love it, but have begun to wonder how to *permanently* replace metacity and gnome-panel. I currently just "gnome-shell --replace" on start-up, but I want to lose gnome-panel completely. Any ideas?

23dornot23d said:

Is there a way to measure the speed - like a Benchmark test somewhere ........ ?

http://blog.fishsoup.net/2010/05/26/measuring-gnome-shell-performance/

23meg said: http://blog.fishsoup.net/2010/05/26/measuring-gnome-shell-performance/

Cheers - I will see if I have the right setup so that I can get this to run and give valid results.

I've been using gnome-shell for quite a while now and love it, but have begun to wonder how to *permanently* replace metacity and gnome-panel. I currently just "gnome-shell --replace" on start-up, but I want to lose gnome-panel completely. Any ideas?

Not sure of the official way but in Ubuntu-Tweak the session section allows you to put gnome-shell as the window manager. Thats how I did it.

Peter09 said: Not sure of the official way but in Ubuntu-Tweak the session section allows you to put gnome-shell as the window manager. Thats how I did it.

AFAIK, all that does is run the "gnome-shell --replace" at startup... in essence, I already do that. I can't uninstall gnome-panel and metacity without losing, practically, everything.

Thanks, but I think I'm looking for a more permanent solution.

Gnome 3 now not working after the Maverick Grub2 was installed.

(will look for GRUB2 Thread as that is the problem) Nearly everything I open now crashes too ..... GRUB2 or something else ?

23dornot23d said: Gnome 3 now not working after the Maverick Grub2 was installed.

(will look for GRUB2 Thread as that is the problem) Nearly everything I open now crashes too ..... GRUB2 or something else ?

This thread is about gnome-shell ... gnome-shell is only a part of Gnome3.

gnome shell is not working .... either .... so end of testing unless someone has some better ideas

23dornot23d said: gnome shell is not working .... either .... so end of testing unless someone has some better ideas

My gnome-shell is working very well. If you cannot run any application than you should look out or report this in other threads. It has nothing to do with GS ... I think.

Gnome shell does not work: -:~$ gnome-shell --replace mutter: error while loading shared libraries: libgirepository-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory :~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

I have been playing with gnome-shell for a good while now and have been trying gnome3 for the last couple of days and from a personal point of view they hold no advantages and have several annoying properties , I don't think I will like the move .

Is anyone else using the Ricotz PPA install and getting this:

bryan@blue-asus:~$ gnome-shell --replace

(mutter:1850): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libgirepository-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try adjusting the vblank_mode configuration parameter.
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!

I am having this crash

Yep gnome-shell appears to be broken atm. At least via the PPA. Looks like it now has a GTK+ 3.0 dependency. :(

I really enjoyed using it. Hoping for a fix or work around.

-- Never Mind --

munooka said: I am having this crash

p0rkjello said: Yep gnome-shell appears to be broken atm. At least via the PPA. Looks like it now has a GTK+ 3.0 dependency. :(

I really enjoyed using it. Hoping for a fix or work around.

It seems we can assume it's borked for now... I just had another error last week, so it seems like things are moving forward quickly; that's nice to see!

mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libgirepository-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]

but

libgirepository-1.0.so.1 is installed

youoh said:

mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libgirepository-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]

libgirepository-1.0.so.1 is installed

I get this very same warning now after today's upgrades.

I just got this error,

Gee-1.0.gir:3:1: error: Unsupported version '1.0'
error parsing file Gee-1.0.gir: Unsupported version '1.0'

I tried to install libgee2 and libgee-dev but that doesn't solve the problem.

I've got same problem when call gnome-shell:

~]$ gnome-shell --replace
mutter: error while loading shared libraries: libgirepository-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libgirepository1.0-0 is installed

Before upgrade after I ran gnome-shell --replace my desktop got some screwed menu, text on top right and window manager has been freeze, can not kill mutter process even with SIGKILL and root privilege :(

Trying to do a completely clean rebuild, and getting this:

$ sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting libtiff4-dev instead of libtiff-dev
libtiff4-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libpng12-dev instead of libpng-dev
libpng12-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libjpeg62-dev instead of libjpeg-dev
libjpeg62-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/Shell$ /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh 
Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: I think I've found the problem. I have libtiff4-dev, libpng12-dev and libjpeg62-dev installed (note the numbers) How can I get around this?

davideotape said: Trying to do a completely clean rebuild, and getting this:

$ sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting libtiff4-dev instead of libtiff-dev
libtiff4-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libpng12-dev instead of libpng-dev
libpng12-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libjpeg62-dev instead of libjpeg-dev
libjpeg62-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/Shell$ /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh 
Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

EDIT: I think I've found the problem. I have libtiff4-dev, libpng12-dev and libjpeg62-dev installed (note the numbers) How can I get around this? i think someone mentioned another fix for this earlier in the thread, i just edited the script (well sed'd it :) ) to replace libtiff-dev with libtiff4-dev and the other 2 as well in the script

$sed -i 's/libtiff-dev/libtiff4-dev/g' gnome-shell-build-setup.sh $sed -i 's/libjpeg-dev/libjpeg62-dev/g' gnome-shell-build-setup.sh $sed -i 's/libpng-dev/libpng12-dev/g' gnome-shell-build-setup.sh

davideotape said: Trying to do a completely clean rebuild, and getting this:

$ sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting libtiff4-dev instead of libtiff-dev
libtiff4-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libpng12-dev instead of libpng-dev
libpng12-dev is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libjpeg62-dev instead of libjpeg-dev
libjpeg62-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/Shell$ /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh 
Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

EDIT: I think I've found the problem. I have libtiff4-dev, libpng12-dev and libjpeg62-dev installed (note the numbers) How can I get around this?

Look at my posts from the last couple of days---I posted a patched gnome-shell-build-setup.sh that gets around the issue--bear in mind that building has many problems right now---look at prior posts....

When you are using the ppa:ricotz/testing ppa:

There are quite some issues with the latest updates. It is the best to use ppa-purge to revert to the default distribution packages. sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge -p testing ricotz

Please do this as soon as possible!

Thank you , I did it and it is all right now.

ricotz said: When you are using the ppa:ricotz/testing ppa:

There are quite some issues with the latest updates. It is the best to use ppa-purge to revert to the default distribution packages. sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge -p testing ricotz

Please do this as soon as possible!

Any ETA on getting things back-up to "amazing?" :-)

As far as building from source--all works again---so I would guess that the PPA will catch up in a couple of days........

ricotz said: When you are using the ppa:ricotz/testing ppa:

There are quite some issues with the latest updates. It is the best to use ppa-purge to revert to the default distribution packages. sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge -p testing ricotz

Please do this as soon as possible!

got these warnings when purging:

WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/httplib2-0.6.0.egg-info is linked but does not belong to any package. WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/httplib2/__init__.py is linked but does not belong to any package. WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/httplib2/iri2uri.py is linked but does not belong to any package.

mr_hangman said: I just got this error,

Gee-1.0.gir:3:1: error: Unsupported version '1.0'
error parsing file Gee-1.0.gir: Unsupported version '1.0'

I tried to install libgee2 and libgee-dev but that doesn't solve the problem.

I still cannot do a clean build without this error. Any ideas?

cresny said: I still cannot do a clean build without this error. Any ideas?

I got through that by choosing option no.6, [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over".

It didn't work a couple days ago. I think they just fixed this problem yesterday.

dino99 said: got these warnings when purging:

WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/httplib2-0.6.0.egg-info is linked but does not belong to any package. WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/httplib2/__init__.py is linked but does not belong to any package. WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/httplib2/iri2uri.py is linked but does not belong to any package.

I saw the same message after updating last night, so I'm not sure if it has anything to do with gnome-shell.

cariboo907 said: I saw the same message after updating last night, so I'm not sure if it has anything to do with gnome-shell.

It does not. I do not have GS on any install currently but have that warning on most.

Gnome-shell still looks rubbish, and is totally unusable on my system. Any light shed on the matter would be welcome

dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~$ cd gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src/
dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
Starting dconf-service...  started
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Fri Jul 16 2010 18:01:53 GMT+0100 (BST)

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again
^CShell killed with signal 2

davideotape said: Gnome-shell still looks rubbish, and is totally unusable on my system. Any light shed on the matter would be welcome

dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~$ cd gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src/
dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
Starting dconf-service...  started
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Fri Jul 16 2010 18:01:53 GMT+0100 (BST)

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:14018): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:14018): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again
^CShell killed with signal 2

Have you tried a complete clean & rebuild? The sources were cleaned up last nite, so things "might" look better today.......

autocrosser said: Have you tried a complete clean & rebuild? The sources were cleaned up last nite, so things "might" look better today.......Keep in mind a complete clean and rebuild will still cause the following problem:```

Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

Easily remedied by the custom gnome-build-setup.sh mentioned by autoscrosser on [Page 32](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476241&page=32)

EDIT:
Now I'm getting errors regarding libgio-2.0.so

Anyone know how to get around the following error? Ubuntu 10.04

*** Building libgee *** [17/21]
make  
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee'
Making all in gee
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --shared-library=libgee -o Gee-1.0.typelib Gee-1.0.gir
Gee-1.0.gir:3:1: error: Unsupported version '1.0'
error parsing file Gee-1.0.gir: Unsupported version '1.0'
make[3]: *** [Gee-1.0.typelib] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of libgee: ########## Error running make   *** [17/21]

p0rkjello said: Anyone know how to get around the following error? Ubuntu 10.04

*** Building libgee *** [17/21]
make  
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee'
Making all in gee
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --shared-library=libgee -o Gee-1.0.typelib Gee-1.0.gir
Gee-1.0.gir:3:1: error: Unsupported version '1.0'
error parsing file Gee-1.0.gir: Unsupported version '1.0'
make[3]: *** [Gee-1.0.typelib] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/libgee'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of libgee: ########## Error running make   *** [17/21]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9597356&postcount=356

And I've just done a completely clean build. Gnome-shell hasn't been working for me at all for the last few months.

davideotape said: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9597356&postcount=356

And I've just done a completely clean build. Gnome-shell hasn't been working for me at all for the last few months.

Could you give me some output---I've got a clean build that is working fine here.....

Here's my latest output after doing a jhbuild build -f -a -c:

dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~$ cd gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src/
dstansby@dstansby-desktop:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
Starting dconf-service...  started
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sat Jul 17 2010 15:14:06 GMT+0100 (BST)

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

(mutter:2798): St-CRITICAL **: setup_framebuffers: assertion `priv->old_offscreen != COGL_INVALID_HANDLE' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_material_set_layer_combine_constant: assertion `cogl_is_material (handle)' failed

(mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-CRITICAL **: cogl_set_source: assertion `cogl_is_material (material_handle)' failed
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again
^CShell killed with signal 2

hrm I keep getting `` /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring_array' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_set_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_param_spec_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_is_floating' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_dcgettext' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_get_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_error_get_type' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_source_set_name' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_dup_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_compare' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_get_bytestring' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gotjazz said: hrm I keep getting ```

/home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring_array' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_set_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_param_spec_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_is_floating' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_dcgettext' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_get_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_error_get_type' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_source_set_name' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_dup_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_compare' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I followed the instruction mentioned in this thread few days ago - [http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=311](http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=311) - removing all *.la files in /usr/lib/.
I did it by moving them to another folder.

cd /usr/lib/ sudo mkdir la_files sudo mv *.la la_files/

Not sure if this will effect other applications but so far I have no problem at all.

I have gotten past the libgee error (thanks davidiotape) and moved on to the next error..

  CCLD   test-theme
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring_array'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_set_variant'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_param_spec_variant'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_is_floating'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_dcgettext'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_get_variant'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_error_get_type'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_source_set_name'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_dup_variant'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_compare'
/home/abounds/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [test-theme] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/abounds/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gnome-shell: ########## Error running make   *** [20/21]

Guess I should have refreshed the page.. before posting :P

gotjazz said: hrm I keep getting ```

/home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring_array' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_set_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_param_spec_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_is_floating' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_dcgettext' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_get_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_error_get_type' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_source_set_name' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_dup_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_compare' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Means that the makefiles are missing glib-2.0 libs being passed to the linker, you could hack them manually but it would take a *long* time :(
Are you using binutils-gold? that will fail on this, if you are then use straight binutils instead.

mr_hangman said: I followed the instruction mentioned in this thread few days ago - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=311 - removing all *.la files in /usr/lib/.

I did it by moving them to another folder.

cd /usr/lib/
sudo mkdir la_files
sudo mv *.la la_files/

I wouldnt recommend that, not at all :) those are your libtool libraries, you might need them sometime:) In general, dont fiddle in the system directories!

mr_hangman said: I followed the instruction mentioned in this thread few days ago - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=311 - removing all *.la files in /usr/lib/.

I did it by moving them to another folder.

cd /usr/lib/
sudo mkdir la_files
sudo mv *.la la_files/

Not sure if this will effect other applications but so far I have no problem at all.

I was able to get everything compiled. Had to delete the gnome-shell directory and start over. Moved the /usr/lib/*.la file to a temp location then returned them after the build. Thanks

gotjazz said: hrm I keep getting ```

/home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring_array' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_set_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_param_spec_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_is_floating' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_dcgettext' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_get_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_error_get_type' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_source_set_name' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_dup_variant' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_compare' /home/peter/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

That needs the script I posted a couple of pages ago & a clean (remove everything in ~/gnome-shell) rebuild.......

*****davidiotape---what video driver are you using?*****

*****p0rkjello---looks good--I had forgot about the .la files---davidiotape & gotjazz---move the .la files in /usr/lib to a "safe" backup---I posted that stuff about a week ago*****

autocrosser said: That needs the script I posted a couple of pages ago & a clean (remove everything in ~/gnome-shell) rebuild.......

***davidiotape---what video driver are you using?***

***p0rkjello---looks good--I had forgot about the .la files---davidiotape & gotjazz---move the .la files in /usr/lib to a "safe" backup---I posted that stuff about a week ago***

I used that script, deleted my ~/gnome-shell folder and STILL got those errors

Hmmmm--- I've deleted the ~/gnome-shell folder, .jhbuildrc, .jhbuildrc-custom & the gnome-shell-build-setup.sh script several times in the last week or so---I no longer get the errors. Not sure what "really" cleared it all.....but I get a clean build every time now.

If you have not deleted .jhbuildrc & jhbuildrc-custom lately---that would be a very good idea---they will be rebuilt with the custom gnome-shell-build-setup script.

autocrosser said: Hmmmm--- I've deleted the ~/gnome-shell folder, .jhbuildrc, .jhbuildrc-custom & the gnome-shell-build-setup.sh script several times in the last week or so---I no longer get the errors. Not sure what "really" cleared it all.....but I get a clean build every time now.

If you have not deleted .jhbuildrc & jhbuildrc-custom lately---that would be a very good idea---they will be rebuilt with the custom gnome-shell-build-setup script.

Deleted, and subsequently reinstalled, jhbuild.

Now when running /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh (with the patched file), I get the following:

Updating jhbuild ... refusing to pull with rebase: your working tree is not up-to-date

Attempting to then run jhbuild build:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/merk/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/config.py", line 181, in __init__
    execfile(_defaults_file, self._config)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/merk/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/defaults.jhbuildrc'
jhbuild: could not load config defaults

Not sure what is going on with that---I'm including the 3 files that I'm using--i can confirm that they work on my system......

autocrosser said: Not sure what is going on with that---I'm including the 3 files that I'm using--i can confirm that they work on my system......

Where do those files go?

Merk42 said: Where do those files go?

The .rc & .rc-custom are just in your /home---look at the bottom in the .dot files.....

autocrosser said: The .rc & .rc-custom are just in your /home---look at the bottom in the .dot files.....

Oh.. looks like I forgot to delete ~/source/jhbuild It builds again, but still getting the libgio and libgtk3 errors

Merk42 said: Oh.. looks like I forgot to delete ~/source/jhbuild

It builds again, but still getting the libgio and libgtk3 errors

Looks like we need to include a mini-tutorial on what "should" be deleted to get a clean build---I had forgot the ~/sorce/jhbuild :oops:

autocrosser said: Looks like we need to include a mini-tutorial on what "should" be deleted to get a clean build---I had forgot the ~/sorce/jhbuild :oops:

I plan on updating the OP about it, but given in my case, it still doesn't correctly build, I haven't added it yet.

I'm using the open source Noveau driver with a GeForce 9400M

davideotape said: I'm using the open source Noveau driver with a GeForce 9400M

Ah!!! That explains this error: (mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

You do not seem to be using a video driver that supports acceleration. You would need to use the Gallum experimental 3D for Noveau or use the closed-source Nvidia driver.....

Here for the Gallum 3D: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1531554

autocrosser said: Ah!!! That explains this error: (mutter:2798): Cogl-glx-WARNING **: ./cogl-framebuffer.c:424: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer

You do not seem to be using a video driver that supports acceleration. You would need to use the Gallum experimental 3D for Noveau or use the closed-source Nvidia driver.....

Here for the Gallum 3D: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1531554

the latest stable 256 Nvidia driver doesnt support the 2.6.35 kernel from what i know of

dext said: the latest stable 256 Nvidia driver doesnt support the 2.6.35 kernel from what i know of

I'm using the latest Nvidia driver with the 2.6.35.8 kernel....working just fine here.

autocrosser said: I'm using the latest Nvidia driver with the 2.6.35.8 kernel....working just fine here.

i forgot Ubuntu is using 1.8.x still, so yeah it would work, Fedora it doesnt work with the newer X-Server-1.9

hrm I just finished my first successful build. Is it me or does the rather old version the official ubuntu repos perform much faster than an up-to-date build?

dext said: i forgot Ubuntu is using 1.8.x still, so yeah it would work, Fedora it doesnt work with the newer X-Server-1.9

Yes---I'm waiting for xorg-edgers to get sorted out & then I'll re-enable the PPA again...

gotjazz said: hrm I just finished my first successful build.

Is it me or does the rather old version the official ubuntu repos perform much faster than an up-to-date build?

Lower requirements for the older build (from repo)--gtk3 & the new mutter/clutter need more to work correctly...

I have a problem on installing stage 3

tomas@MacBook:~$ /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh Please run 'sudo apt-get install libtiff-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev ' and try again.

I've already installed those packages.

running updated maveric

edit: nevermind, found the patch http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9576769#post9576769 thanks autocrosser!

edit2: Havn't tried GS for a while, must say, it's been very much improved since I tried it last time, about 2 months ago. However, it's still a bit laggish. Using the nVidia 256.31 driver.

Here's how I've got on since my last post:

I don't want to install the closed source driver, because the boot splash looks 'orrible and I'd lose brightness control

So, I've installed libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental as recommended here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9595229&postcount=5

Restarted, build gnome-shell and it now works :D Thanks to all that helped

EDIT: My buttons have moved back to the right when running gnome-shell :(

davideotape said: Here's how I've got on since my last post:

I don't want to install the closed source driver, because the boot splash looks 'orrible and I'd lose brightness control

So, I've installed libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental as recommended here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9595229&postcount=5

Restarted, build gnome-shell and it now works :D Thanks to all that helped

EDIT: My buttons have moved back to the right when running gnome-shell :(

Hmmm--try changing your theme or use the gconf way to put the buttons back....glad to see that you've got GS working---have fun!!

Ricotz PPA version works again. Loverly.

yeah, I noticed the fix last nite. Sweeeeet.

Although.. there is still no visible changes/features added to the current gnome-shell.... lol When the hell is there gonna be features added to gnome-shell??? its been developing at a crawl it seems and final release is due in merely a few weeks.... arghhhhhhh! nooooooooo Pleaseeeeee Don't let the final release be THIS thing! Lol :p

symon1980 said: yeah, I noticed the fix last nite. Sweeeeet.

Although.. there is still no visible changes/features added to the current gnome-shell.... lol When the hell is there gonna be features added to gnome-shell??? its been developing at a crawl it seems and final release is due in merely a few weeks.... arghhhhhhh! nooooooooo Pleaseeeeee Don't let the final release be THIS thing! Lol :pWhat sort of features were you expecting?

well a more organized way of browsing applications is something one would expect before the final release. Also while a taskbar seems to be out of the question SOME graphical way of changing between open windows on one workplace without leaving it or alt+tabbing would seem like a must-have.... but maybe that's just my old-fashionedness ;)

edit: oh and a tool to at least marginally configure and/or theme the whole thing.

What I really want to see in GS is the ability to drag and drop files. At the moment I cannot drag a file from one maximized window to another one. This feature is very useful for music player, copying files or sending files via IM (also attaching files in gmail with chrome :)).

Hmm, getting a new error when I try to build now:

dconfsettingsbackend.c: In function ‘dconf_settings_backend_send’:
dconfsettingsbackend.c:387: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message’
/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0/gio/gdbusconnection.h:125: note: expected ‘GDBusSendMessageFlags’ but argument is of type ‘volatile guint32 *’
dconfsettingsbackend.c:387: error: too few arguments to function ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message’
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
dconfsettingsbackend.c:390: error: passing argument 4 of ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0/gio/gdbusconnection.h:141: note: expected ‘gint’ but argument is of type ‘void *’
dconfsettingsbackend.c:390: error: too few arguments to function ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync’
make[1]: *** [dconfsettingsbackend.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/dconf/gsettings'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of dconf: ########## Error running make   *** [18/21]

I got this error during step 1/21.

./.libs/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `WIFEXITED'
./.libs/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `WEXITSTATUS'

Any idea?

Any reason why the status icon is still missing by the name?

Merk42 said: What sort of features were you expecting?

I have created blueprints and a video of what I think makes sense to add to gnome-shell to make it more useable....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8HWhln3IMo

No offense, and I am sure they thank you for the input, but at this stage I think they are looking for real code and not mockups.

It's probably something very simple, but for the life of me i cant figure out how to get rid of the notifications?

Like for example, i get a notification when i connect to the wifi, but it just stays in the tray at the bottom. Is this how it's supposed to be?

rayraven said: It's probably something very simple, but for the life of me i cant figure out how to get rid of the notifications?

Like for example, i get a notification when i connect to the wifi, but it just stays in the tray at the bottom. Is this how it's supposed to be?

If I understand it right, you have to hover the mouse over it. When a small extended part pops up, click the icon in front of the title.

This is one of those things that kinda bug me. Everytime I have to aim for this small icon. Even when there is no icon I still have to click the empty space in the front. I hope there will be some improvements for this :).

mr_hangman said: If I understand it right, you have to hover the mouse over it. When a small extended part pops up, click the icon in front of the title.

This is one of those things that kinda bug me. Everytime I have to aim for this small icon. Even when there is no icon I still have to click the empty space in the front. I hope there will be some improvements for this :).

Thanks! That got rid of those notifications.

You are right though, this does need more improvement.

davideotape said: Hmm, getting a new error when I try to build now:

dconfsettingsbackend.c: In function ‘dconf_settings_backend_send’:
dconfsettingsbackend.c:387: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message’
/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0/gio/gdbusconnection.h:125: note: expected ‘GDBusSendMessageFlags’ but argument is of type ‘volatile guint32 *’
dconfsettingsbackend.c:387: error: too few arguments to function ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message’
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
dconfsettingsbackend.c:390: error: passing argument 4 of ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0/gio/gdbusconnection.h:141: note: expected ‘gint’ but argument is of type ‘void *’
dconfsettingsbackend.c:390: error: too few arguments to function ‘g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync’
make[1]: *** [dconfsettingsbackend.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dstansby/gnome-shell/source/dconf/gsettings'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of dconf: ########## Error running make   *** [18/21]

I'm having the same problem with the new commit. Any workaround yet?

NightwishFan said: No offense, and I am sure they thank you for the input, but at this stage I think they are looking for real code and not mockups.

(paraphrased for comedic effect) *EARLY IN THE DEV CYCLE* "Thank you for your input, but we're hard at work implementing what we mocked up, so wait until after we'd added those features before giving input"

*LATER IN THE DEV CYCLE* "Thank you for your input, but we're hard at work fixing bugs with what we implemented and since we've invested so much, we're not going to implement any new ideas at this stage, it would have been better to give your input earlier"

Exactly. ;)

Well no, but as they say code speaks.

the nvidia restricted drivers never liked gnome shell for me, to choppy to be usable.

i recently switched to the libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental and now its super smooth! only issue is that my desktop wallpaper "bleeds" through my window.

any ideas? using the ppa.

You need to:

cd gnome-shell/install/lib
rm -rf *.la
jhbuild buildone gnome-shell -acf

This fixed it two times for me. No need to touch /usr/lib,or erase the whole dir.

xtoudi said: According previous post:

There is sth wrong with /usr/lib/libfreetype.la.

With this lib I've got

/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring_array'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_set_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_new_bytestring'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_param_spec_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_is_floating'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_dcgettext'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_get_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_error_get_type'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgdk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to `g_source_set_name'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_dup_variant'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_compare'
/home/tomek/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring'

without lib:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la'

This library should be compiled with GS - and is missing...I think.

hrhnick said: the nvidia restricted drivers never liked gnome shell for me, to choppy to be usable.

i recently switched to the libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental and now its super smooth! only issue is that my desktop wallpaper "bleeds" through my window.

any ideas? using the ppa.

Same problem here. Been like this for a couple of months now. It's just parts of the window/windows that's "transparent".

GS is much faster using the nouveau, to bad we cant use gs with nouveau...

Tompalaz said: Same problem here. Been like this for a couple of months now.

It's just parts of the window/windows that's "transparent".

GS is much faster using the nouveau, to bad we cant use gs with nouveau...

my windows only look normal when maximized, and my terminal for some reason. pita.

I guess that I'm one of the few that is not having a problem with GS & the Nvidia drivers----but I am using a SLI setup with two 9500GT DDR3 1024mb cards---so it looks like the requirement for nvidia with GS to run smooth is running SLI......

Running smooth but getting that horrible bleed through effect -

[IMG]http://web16.twitpic.com/img/133689863-254868755c5d6eb5c56bd978f6ac4bdc.4c4863f8-scaled.png[/IMG]

Anyone filed a bug on that one?

Tompalaz said: Anyone filed a bug on that one?

I would have done if I knew where to file bugs for gnome-shell :(

davideotape said: I would have done if I knew where to file bugs for gnome-shell :(

Report them in the gnome-shell product at https://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Cheers, reported https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625044

hrhnick said: the nvidia restricted drivers never liked gnome shell for me, to choppy to be usable.

i recently switched to the libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental and now its super smooth! only issue is that my desktop wallpaper "bleeds" through my window.

any ideas? using the ppa.

Note that the restricted drivers will be sped up once xorg 1.9 has a rollout. There was a bug of sorts that slowed things down because of the way gnome-shell works. In the meantime to improve performance with the NVIDIA binaries open /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/chrome.js and find the following:

queueUpdateRegions: function() {
        if (!this._updateRegionIdle)
            this._updateRegionIdle = Mainloop.idle_add(Lang.bind(this, this._updateRegions),
                                                       Meta.PRIORITY_BEFORE_REDRAW);
},

and change Meta.PRIORITY_BEFORE_REDRAW to 500, like so:

queueUpdateRegions: function() {
        if (!this._updateRegionIdle)
            this._updateRegionIdle = Mainloop.idle_add(Lang.bind(this, this._updateRegions),
                                                       500);
},

You'll see a MASSIVE performance increase across the board.

Thank You---that did speed up my setup---not MASSIVE, but a notable improvement!!!!

I couldn't find that file in the place you mentioned. Maybe because I compile from source. So, I changed it in ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/js/ui/chrome.js and wow! it really speeds up GS. Thanks for the tip.

so after having issues, i clean installed, enabled the nonfree nvidia drivers, and now, shell fails to start, ppa version.

hrhnick@desktop:~$ gnome-shell --replace
**
ERROR:girffi.c:85:_gi_type_tag_get_ffi_type: code should not be reached
Shell killed with signal 6
hrhnick@desktop:~$ 
(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Unable to open desktop file firefox.desktop for panel launcher

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:22291): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

I have that issue too. I think I noticed one of the files used in the ppa updated through the main repos, and my suspicion is that's what broke it. I'm going to do some testing and I'll be back if that's what it was.

ETA: Nope, I was wrong I guess. Not sure what caused the problem then.

kaitwospirit said: I have that issue too. I think I noticed one of the files used in the ppa updated through the main repos, and my suspicion is that's what broke it. I'm going to do some testing and I'll be back if that's what it was.

i tried ppapurging and it didnt help :-(

Try purging the PPA & build it from source---there are quite a few things that are in flux right now & you will have the git versions with a build---

mr_hangman said: I'm having the same problem with the new commit. Any workaround yet?

I had a similar problem in this stage as well.

I had to Copy the libdconf.so.0 file from /home/*username*/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client to /home/*username*/gnome-shell/install/lib and then rerun the build, it fixed the problem

I really want to try gnome shell but i get this error:

checking for DEPENDENT... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 > 2.14.0 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.7.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.7.0 ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0 dbus-1 >= 1.0.0 dbus-glib-1 >= 0.74 gio-2.0 >= 2.25.9) were not met:

No package 'ORBit-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DEPENDENT_CFLAGS and DEPENDENT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.

* Error during phase configure of gconf: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/tony/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/tony/gnome-shell/install/lib' --disable-defaults-service --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc * [13/21]

[1] Rerun phase configure [2] Ignore error and continue to build [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "clean" [8] Go to phase "distclean" ------

Please help me out...

thank you!

hrm I'm thinking of rebuilding from scratch later today - is moving around all the *.la files still necessary?

gotjazz---I haven't done that for a week or so now---give it a try.....

mixint27---you need the development versions of those to build...

Kasiraman said: I had a similar problem in this stage as well.

I had to Copy the libdconf.so.0 file from /home/*username*/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client to /home/*username*/gnome-shell/install/lib and then rerun the build, it fixed the problem

Still got the error when I tried that.

I hope there haven't been any major GUI changes to GNOME Shell recently. I can't update the images since I haven't been able to successfully build for some time.

Merk42 said: Still got the error when I tried that.

I hope there haven't been any major GUI changes to GNOME Shell recently. I can't update the images since I haven't been able to successfully build for some time.

hrm for me that did the trick - but at step 21 (gnome-shell itself) libfreetype.la is making trouble again. with it i get the old undefinded references problem and without it it complains about it not being there.

Moving *.la files is not a good idea anymore anyway as this step seems to really need them now.

Merk42 said: Still got the error when I tried that.

I hope there haven't been any major GUI changes to GNOME Shell recently. I can't update the images since I haven't been able to successfully build for some time.

It's all looking the same to me--just all the under the hood changes...

Since the latest updates of Gnome-Shell I am getting no Recent-Items displayed. I have looked in .recently-used.xbel and things appear to be happening there. Any suggestions?

autocrosser said:

mixint27---you need the development versions of those to build...

thanks. what development versions do i need so i can proceed and where do i get these from.

if you can be specific please...thanks!

I've been getting this error when trying to build dconf, both last night and today:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client'
  GISCAN dconf-0.3.gir
/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/dconf-0.3: error while loading shared libraries: libdconf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Command '['/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/dconf-0.3', '--introspect-dump=/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/types.txt,/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/dump.xml']' returned non-zero exit status 127
make[1]: *** [dconf-0.3.gir] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of dconf: ########## Error running make   *** [18/21]

This looks like a path error of some sort.

$ ls ~/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client | grep libdconf
libdconf.so
libdconf.so.0
libdconf_so_0_vala.stamp

In case this was related to the bug discussed on the previous page, I tried that workaround to no avail.

$ ls /home/bunny/gnome-shell/install/lib | grep libdconf
libdconf.so.0

Any ideas on how to fix this? Looking forward to trying out gnome-shell!

mixint27 said: thanks. what development versions do i need so i can proceed and where do i get these from.

if you can be specific please...thanks!

Get the same version names with the .dev after the library......

If you don't get a build the first time just try building again---and sometimes waiting a couple of hours (in case a commit is "stuck") will solve the issue.

Merk42 said: Still got the error when I tried that.

I hope there haven't been any major GUI changes to GNOME Shell recently. I can't update the images since I haven't been able to successfully build for some time.

OK--I just was able to do a completely non-modified build--used the normal gnome-shell-build-setup.sh, did not modify any files & did a normal jhbuild build -f -a -c.....everything built without error. How long this will hold true is the Developers knowledge & no-one else, but as of this moment I have a "stock" build running.........

autocrosser said: OK--I just was able to do a completely non-modified build--used the normal gnome-shell-build-setup.sh, did not modify any files & did a normal jhbuild build -f -a -c.....everything built without error. How long this will hold true is the Developers knowledge & no-one else, but as of this moment I have a "stock" build running.........Yet when I try it I get the aforementioned libgio and libdconf errors.

Perhaps because I'm on Lucid?

autocrosser said: OK--I just was able to do a completely non-modified build--used the normal gnome-shell-build-setup.sh, did not modify any files & did a normal jhbuild build -f -a -c.....everything built without error. How long this will hold true is the Developers knowledge & no-one else, but as of this moment I have a "stock" build running.........

I just did this as well, starting about 20 minutes after you posted, and am having precisely the same problem detailed in my previous post earlier on the page. Any clue why this might be happening?

Not sure--I'm building with Maverick x86-64---so in theory that "should" be harder to build.....I would guess that the Lucid .libs are "old" enough to not work well....

I'm no longer doing anything special to build---just have all the depends & run the script.

indeed - just installed macerick on my distrohopping partition and lo and behold. gnome-shell is built without a single complaint....

edit: 32bit in this case edit2: although after building the graphical errors in 10.4 were less severe - but i assume that has something to do with xorg-server versions or the like. i had the same with OpenSUSE 11.3....

I had the same "make: * [all-recursive] Error 1" problem as bethebunny. > `` make[1]: Entering directory /home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client' GISCAN dconf-0.3.gir /home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/dconf-0.3: error while loading shared libraries: libdconf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Command '['/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/dconf-0.3', '--introspect-dump=/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/types.txt,/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client/tmp-introspectnyKmuP/dump.xml']' returned non-zero exit status 127 make[1]: * [dconf-0.3.gir] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bunny/gnome-shell/source/dconf/client' make: * [all-recursive] Error 1 * Error during phase build of dconf: ########## Error running make *** [18/21]

Any help would be appreciated.

RE - dconf problem with gnome-shell build... The problem has been reported to gnome folks. GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 625236

im now having the same issue...

utnubu12 said: I had the same "make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1" problem as bethebunny.

Any help would be appreciated.

Since the latest updates of Gnome-Shell I am getting no Recent-Items displayed. I have looked in .recently-used.xbel and things appear to be happening there. Any suggestions?

Anyone any suggestions as to where to start looking for this - I have re-purged the ppa and reinstalled gnome-shell, but no change.

I would appreciate it if someone gives me a head up when the jhbuild is fixed. I also get the dconf failure.

I will not move to Gnome 3 if I can't use Compiz!

VH-BIL said: I will not move to Gnome 3 if I can't use Compiz!

I would hope Gnome3 would have a more extensive composite manager by then (or one to build on).

As much as I love compiz there are aspects that really spoil it (scale not showing minimized windows, window switchers showing big, very badly scaled icons for minimized windows etc). The devs have made clear there will never be any hacky workarounds and it has been a problem for some time.

A window scale/present windows/expose, whatever you want to call it should show all windows, minimized or not, surely it's pointless otherwise? I'm not personally bothered about the big eye candy stuff but the basics should be included in gnome 3.

x-shaney-x said: I would hope Gnome3 would have a more extensive composite manager by then (or one to build on).

As much as I love compiz there are aspects that really spoil it (scale not showing minimized windows, window switchers showing big, very badly scaled icons for minimized windows etc). The devs have made clear there will never be any hacky workarounds and it has been a problem for some time.

A window scale/present windows/expose, whatever you want to call it should show all windows, minimized or not, surely it's pointless otherwise? I'm not personally bothered about the big eye candy stuff but the basics should be included in gnome 3.

I don't find these to be problems for me. I like grouping and tabbing and using a computer without wobbly windows don't seem right anymore :p

wobbly windows? You really use that? Always makes me dizzy....

Yeah - I also like wobbly windows - it makes the desktop feel less wooden and fixed.

I read somewhere that Compiz where thinking of making their own shell now that Gnome3 are integrating the window manager.

There was talk about that a long time ago. A lot of changes have happened and I believe they only have one serious developer now. Maybe the re-write will bring more cooks to the stove but only time will tell. It doesn't seem to have the draw it did a couple of years ago.

x-shaney-x said: There was talk about that a long time ago. A lot of changes have happened and I believe they only have one serious developer now. Maybe the re-write will bring more cooks to the stove but only time will tell.

It doesn't seem to have the draw it did a couple of years ago.

I too believe this. From what I have heard, there is only the one developer for Compiz now. And it's not an easy process going through files of code from the former devs

so anyway - when was the last time anyone successfully build GS on Ubuntu 10.4?

gotjazz said: so anyway - when was the last time anyone successfully build GS on Ubuntu 10.4?

I just successfully built GS with the newest commit.

FYI, the whole notification popup now is clickable :).

mr_hangman said: I just successfully built GS with the newest commit.

FYI, the whole notification popup now is clickable :).

Nice to hear!!

mr_hangman said: I just successfully built GS with the newest commit.

FYI, the whole notification popup now is clickable :).

hrm so no missing dconf stuff, no undefined references or anything? And you're running Ubuntu 10.4? Interesting - I always assumed those 2 problems had something to do with how up-to-date certain things are seeing as I have no problem building gs on 10.10 alpha but it doesn't work on 10.4.

hrmpf - 10.4 doesn't build it but used to run it well - with 10.10 it's the other way around. Building in one and copying it over maybe? :p

gotjazz said: hrm so no missing dconf stuff, no undefined references or anything? And you're running Ubuntu 10.4? Interesting - I always assumed those 2 problems had something to do with how up-to-date certain things are seeing as I have no problem building gs on 10.10 alpha but it doesn't work on 10.4.

hrmpf - 10.4 doesn't build it but used to run it well - with 10.10 it's the other way around. Building in one and copying it over maybe? :p

Yes, I'm on lucid 10.04. I used to have those errors but they're gone with no explanation. What I did was just kept compiling and cleaning the dir. Did you try [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"?

several times each try - i also started over with a completely clean build three times today alone...

oh well - one more time before i go to bed :D (if I delete the gnome-shell dir, the source dir, the twi jhbuild files in the home dir as well as even the build-setup script before starting over that's as clean as it gets, right?)

gotjazz said: several times each try - i also started over with a completely clean build three times today alone...

oh well - one more time before i go to bed :D (if I delete the gnome-shell dir, the source dir, the twi jhbuild files in the home dir as well as even the build-setup script before starting over that's as clean as it gets, right?)

I guess I need someone to answer this question. But as far as I know those are all the files needed for compiling GS. :popcorn:

hrm i installed a clean 10.4 on another machine and the build is running on it now with nothing but updating lucid from the official repos between install and building.....

i just keep wonderign if the distro is making such differences for building then what are all the devs using - debian unstable? :D

edit: nope - both errors again. i copied over that dconflib to get around the first one but gnome-shell itself still wont build...

I am no longer seeing an error during the dconf build phase. However, gnome-shell will no longer start in the usual way. The work around is found in this bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625345

type jhbuild run gnome-shell --replace

This works for me. I finally have gnome-shell again after several long days (its hard to stop hitting windows key for everything).

Hey, now that i got to build gnome-shell (thanks to the guys in IRC), it seems to use a lot of resources, all my applications start lagging. Is that normal? My sys specs are: P8600 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM and a Mobility Radeon 3650. Thanks.

Ah - something new:

*** Arbeitskopie wird erstellt gtk3 *** [8/21]
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/peter/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/.git/
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
*** Fehler während Phase checkout von gtk3: ########## Fehler beim Ausführen von git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 *** [8/21

Hmmm---I just did a full rebuild & did not have that problem---

it's a bug with git (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/151529)

a workaround:

download http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules

and change the '%2d' to a '+' at row 88. then change ~/.jhbuildrc at row 21, comment the original moduleset row and add a custom one to your altered gnome-shell.modules i.e. ``` moduleset = '/home/josef/Source/gnome-shell.modules'

and run jhbuild again. works for me :p

jhbuild build

> **gotjazz said:**
> Ah - something new:

* Arbeitskopie wird erstellt gtk3 * [8/21] git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/peter/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly * Fehler während Phase checkout von gtk3: ########## Fehler beim Ausführen von git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 * [8/21

HI! my prob is it gives an error in the 20/21 section. the error is from make :

/home/gotwig/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_variant_get_bytestring' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: * [test-theme] Fehler 1 make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/gotwig/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src' make[2]: * [all] Fehler 2 make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/gotwig/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/gotwig/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell' make: * [all] Fehler 2 * Error during phase build of gnome-shell: ########## Error running make * [20/21]

[1] Rerun phase build [2] Ignore error and continue to install [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "configure" [8] Go to phase "clean" [9] Go to phase "distclean"

PLS. HELP ME :(!

I had the same problem. I got the following solution from the guys on IRC (thanks):

• go to your ~/gnome-shell/install/lib/
• copy all *.la files to a backup location ($ mkdir ~/backup && mv *.la ~/backup/)
• build only gnome-shell ($ jhbuild buildone -afcn gnome-shell)
• copy all *.la files back ($ mv ~/backup/* ~/gnome-shell/install/lib/)
• build again ($ jhbuild build)
• it should run fine now and you should be able to run $ jhbuild run gnome-shell

I hope this helps :)

it work´s. thx!

Thanks a lot - gtk3 is building again :)

alphonce said: it's a bug with git (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/151529)

a workaround:

download http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules

and change the '%2d' to a '+' at row 88. then change ~/.jhbuildrc at row 21, comment the original moduleset row and add a custom one to your altered gnome-shell.modules i.e. ``` moduleset = '/home/josef/Source/gnome-shell.modules'

jhbuild build

So what is the new procedure to get gnome shell working? Does the OP still apply?

alphonce said: it's a bug with git (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/151529)

a workaround:

download http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules

and change the '%2d' to a '+' at row 88. then change ~/.jhbuildrc at row 21, comment the original moduleset row and add a custom one to your altered gnome-shell.modules i.e. ``` moduleset = '/home/josef/Source/gnome-shell.modules'

and run jhbuild again. works for me :p

jhbuild build

For some reason, this didn't work for me. 

I also got 

* Checking out gtk3 * [8/21] git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/allan/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly * Error during phase checkout of gtk3: ########## Error running git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 * [8/21]

What could be the fix?

magcius (Jasper St. Pierre)on #gnome-shell was kind enough to give us workarounds.

To those face the git bug or ``` * Checking out gtk3 * [8/21] git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/allan/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly * Error during phase checkout of gtk3: ########## Error running git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 * [8/21]

This is because git broke and is backwards incompatible. It's hard to fix both ways. The workaround is running

pushd ~/gnome-shell/source/ && git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+ gtk3 && popd

As for those using **nVidia**, GS is going to be really slow without a xorg patch. Here's the [bug report]("https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613936"). [Here's the patch]("http://fpaste.org/dcsD/").

OP: Please add these to the first post.

wersdaluv said: magcius (Jasper St. Pierre)on #gnome-shell was kind enough to give us workarounds.

To those face the git bug or ``` * Checking out gtk3 * [8/21] git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/allan/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/.git/ fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly * Error during phase checkout of gtk3: ########## Error running git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk%2b gtk3 * [8/21]

This is because git broke and is backwards incompatible. It's hard to fix both ways. The workaround is running

pushd ~/gnome-shell/source/ && git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+ gtk3 && popd

As for those using **nVidia**, GS is going to be really slow without a xorg patch. Here's the [bug report]("https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613936"). [Here's the patch]("http://fpaste.org/dcsD/").

OP: Please add these to the first post.

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9624079&postcount=419](http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9624079&postcount=419)

Doing this is a quick fix until Xorg 1.9 is pushed. It should be placed in the OP.

I don't use Ubuntu currently, sorry, I'm now on Arch. wers linked me to the thread.

There are two patches for nVidia, one for the xorg server, and one for gnome-shell. I am not sure if the current version of the server (1.7.5) is compatible with this patch. Someone might want to make a PPA for the xorg server if it is.

I have the first patch applied for my xserver, but I don't have the one for the shell applied currently. I will try it soon.

There are a couple issues here, the slowdown on my old AGP card is due to the fact that setting the input shapes cause some expensive calculations happen in the driver, so the first patch is necessary to make sure that it only does the expensive calculation when it's updating the correct field.

The second patch sets the priority timer that sets the input region to not happen while animations are in progress.

Mblackwell, there are two different patches here. And I do not believe that the 256 driver series is stable with 1.9.

hello...so i was now able to run gnome shell...

I get this error in the terminal...how can i fix this.

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Thu Jul 29 2010 23:32:54 GMT-0700 (PST) WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug! WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug! Allocating 107 x 26 radeon RBO (pitch 112) Allocating 107 x 26 radeon RBO (pitch 128) Allocating 107 x 26 radeon RBO (pitch 112) Allocating 107 x 26 radeon RBO (pitch 112) Allocating 107 x 26 radeon RBO (pitch 128)

Those aren't bugs.

The first is due to the shell using gtk3 while your current modules were built for gtk2. There's no harm there.

The rest of the output is pretty much useless, and has to do with the Raedon driver.

If something doesn't work or runs slow, that's not very good.

Furthermore, I'm going to crowd-source this some more. Would those who are running the shell from git/jhbuild (NOT from ricotz's PPA) mind registering for the shell performance tracker: http://shell-perf.gnome.org/home

You'll get an email of what to do. Make sure to run the tests with only a simple terminal window open, otherwise the tests aren't reproducible.

AH now that's a good thing - registered and tested

magcius said: I don't use Ubuntu currently, sorry, I'm now on Arch. wers linked me to the thread.

There are two patches for nVidia, one for the xorg server, and one for gnome-shell. I am not sure if the current version of the server (1.7.5) is compatible with this patch. Someone might want to make a PPA for the xorg server if it is.

I have the first patch applied for my xserver, but I don't have the one for the shell applied currently. I will try it soon.

There are a couple issues here, the slowdown on my old AGP card is due to the fact that setting the input shapes cause some expensive calculations happen in the driver, so the first patch is necessary to make sure that it only does the expensive calculation when it's updating the correct field.

The second patch sets the priority timer that sets the input region to not happen while animations are in progress.

Mblackwell, there are two different patches here. And I do not believe that the 256 driver series is stable with 1.9.

I see what you're saying, but the "second patch" as you call it will give a huge increase in performance. It turned GS on my old 9300 from a sluggish mess into a smooth experience. You shouldn't need to go through the trouble of patching and building xorg for now.

Depends on your card. The gnome-shell patch didn't do anything for me, the xserver patch gave a major improvement.

Interesting.

Well I guess I should update it say it is impossible to build on anything less than Maverick? Even with the GTK+ patch, I STILL get the libgio and libgtk errors.

So I guess when that new look gets in GNOME Shell I can't update the images since I'm only running Lucid.

Curious why the Ricotz PPA hasn't been updated since the 4th of July...

magcius said: Those aren't bugs.

The first is due to the shell using gtk3 while your current modules were built for gtk2. There's no harm there.

The rest of the output is pretty much useless, and has to do with the Raedon driver.

If something doesn't work or runs slow, that's not very good.

Furthermore, I'm going to crowd-source this some more. Would those who are running the shell from git/jhbuild (NOT from ricotz's PPA) mind registering for the shell performance tracker: http://shell-perf.gnome.org/home

You'll get an email of what to do. Make sure to run the tests with only a simple terminal window open, otherwise the tests aren't reproducible.

thanks for your input. i have been getting errors while using gnome in the terminal; all about clutter warnings...but gnome on my laptop seems to run pretty good. have note experienced slowness yet.

If anybody is experiencing errors or warnings, we can't do anything about them unless you tell us what they are.

Merk42, I'm guessing that you're having some link warnings: 'undefined reference'?

Try: rm ~/gnome-shell/install/*.la /usr/lib/*.la

magcius said: If anybody is experiencing errors or warnings, we can't do anything about them unless you tell us what they are.

Merk42, I'm guessing that you're having some link warnings: 'undefined reference'?

Try: rm ~/gnome-shell/install/*.la /usr/lib/*.la

Yes which I mentioned pages ago, but I guess it got lost. I ran that command and I still get errors

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merk/gnome-shell/source/gobject-introspection/gir'
  CC     libgirepository_everything_1_0_la-everything.lo
  CCLD   libgirepository-everything-1.0.la
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libfreetype.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[2]: *** [libgirepository-everything-1.0.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merk/gnome-shell/source/gobject-introspection/gir'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merk/gnome-shell/source/gobject-introspection'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gobject-introspection: ########## Error running make   *** [2/21]

That doesn't look very good. sed shouldn't be run on something like that.

I'd suggest rm -rf ~/gnome-shell and rerunning the setup script and doing another jhbuild.

* success * [21/21]

It definitely builds right now (except for that git incompatibility thing).

Edit:

Wow, you weren't kidding with > As for those using nVidia, GS is going to be really slow without a xorg patch. Compared to Unity it's awfully slow. Not sure I want to compile the whole Xorg, though.

You could try the gnome-shell patch first:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/
curl http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=157326 > nvidia-flash.patch
git am flash.patch

Then rebuild with jhbuild.

Thanks, it's indeed a lot better now.

Finally built successfully, as such I've added a bit to the OP.

magcius said: You could try the gnome-shell patch first:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/
curl http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=157326 > nvidia-flash.patch
git am flash.patch

Thanks for the showing how to incorporate a patch into the jhbuild sequence. I was doing it manually before this.

This patch improved performance slightly while I am watching videos (I was having trouble for some reason while running gnome-shell) but the flickering still remains. I'm too lazy to deal with the xorg patch so I think I'll just deal with it for now.

I got the GTK3 build error and did the workaround as was suggested earlier. It is building now *fingers crossed*.

Merk42 said:

How do I Try it?

Running Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid and Maverick there are three ways to try GNOME Shell

• Install the gnome-shell package (easy but out of date)
• Use the Ricotz PPA (slightly harder, but more up to date)
• Build from source (more difficult, but up to date when something is added, provided you rerun jhbuild build)

ricotz is now out of date. Don't use it.

Merk42 said:

• Get jhbuild (not a command line entry)
• For Lucid via repository, package name "jhbuild".
• From Jaunty
• From Debian

The gnome-shell-setup-build.sh will actually check out jhbuild for you. It will be in ~/bin/jhbuild. We regularly update jhbuild when it breaks our build, and it will auto-update with that script, so it is best to use that instead of the package.

Merk42 said:

Yay! It's finally done building! Now what? To run

• cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src
• ./gnome-shell --replace

To quit GNOME Shell and return to the panels Go to the terminal

• hit CTRL-C

To update (check the commit log for anything new)

• jhbuild build (rebuilds updated files)
• jhbuild build -f -a -c (builds all gnome shell files)

The commit log of gnome-shell isn't really what you should only check. This is gnome 3 really, so we make a lot of other modifications which should solve other things like performance, graphics glitches. Really, I run jhbuild again, and then use Alt+F2 'replace' to restart it.

Merk42 said:

If you want to make it your default, put "gnome-shell --replace" in your Startup Items

Not a good idea either, if you really want to do this, I would suggest using a different GDM session. There are various tutorials all over the web.

Merk42 said:

Love it? Hate it? Have a suggestion? Make your voice heard in the GNOME Shell mailing list The mailing list really isn't the best place for feedback anymore. For design issues, we have meetings in IRC on gimpnet, #gnome-shell, Wednesdays from 2-4 PM EST.

Thanks for the information magcius!

As far as my building went, Success! I had to do the gtk3 workaround listed previous in this thread, and then followed bugzilla comments: 13 & 15 and got it working. Keeping it on my laptop full time, it runs great.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623952

magcius said: ricotz is now out of date. Don't use it.

The gnome-shell-setup-build.sh will actually check out jhbuild for you. It will be in ~/bin/jhbuild. We regularly update jhbuild when it breaks our build, and it will auto-update with that script, so it is best to use that instead of the package.

The commit log of gnome-shell isn't really what you should only check. This is gnome 3 really, so we make a lot of other modifications which should solve other things like performance, graphics glitches. Really, I run jhbuild again, and then use Alt+F2 'replace' to restart it.

Not a good idea either, if you really want to do this, I would suggest using a different GDM session. There are various tutorials all over the web.

The mailing list really isn't the best place for feedback anymore. For design issues, we have meetings in IRC on gimpnet, #gnome-shell, Wednesdays from 2-4 PM EST.

Wow just tear apart my entire OP :(

So if people shouldn't check the commit log for updates, what should they check?

what were you guys thinking? gnome shell looks <snip>!!!!!! i hope someone keeps maintaining the good old gnome we love. i mean seriously, you replace apps, places, system with "activities"///././././ <snip>.

Bah, it is quite awesome, and it is something new. I hope it works out quite nicely.

fremantle said: what were you guys thinking? gnome shell looks <snip>!!!!!! i hope someone keeps maintaining the good old gnome we love. i mean seriously, you replace apps, places, system with "activities"///././././ <snip>.

Did you read the first post or just look at the pictures?

Merk42 said: OMG GNOME SHELL IS AWFUL! I'm moving to xfce/Windows/an abacus

Calm down. Look at the GNOME 3 Myths

MYTH: GNOME won't support the current panel and window manager anymore and I don't want to use GNOME Shell

TRUTH: The GNOME 2.x panel and Metacity (the window manager) will still be available. Downstream distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu will have the option to include them in their distribution. You will be able to install them just as now you can install sawfish, compiz, etc inside your GNOME session. (There are no plans to support GNOME panel applets in GNOME Shell, TBA. This mailing list post has some information.)

fremantle said: what were you guys thinking? gnome shell looks <snip>!!!!!! i hope someone keeps maintaining the good old gnome we love. i mean seriously, you replace apps, places, system with "activities"///././././ <snip>.

Pretty sure you're looking for this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1457428

There are other things that are built besides gnome-shell during jhbuild time. These are not the only part of gnome3. Suggesting that we go to the commit log for gnome-shell is bad. There's no reason to go every time.

Also, unfortunately, gnome-panel is not maintained currently, and probably won't have a maintainer again. So, while available, isn't going to be getting the bump to gnome 3 or upgrades. It's up to the maintainers now.

Why can't we use or extend compiz with a plugin? Because it's not under our control. We have to manipulate window textures and such. We'd rather have something that we control. Clutter (and its little brother mutter which was made for Moblin/Intel) were with our vision: the developers already worked on gnome, and had coding standards like gnome.

We're a little pressed on extensibility right now, and we know it sucks. Firefox/Mozilla's Add-ons were developed after people saw what kind of modifications people made to the codebase, and adding ways to make that easier. I'm doing the same thing in several ways, so I hope to present to the team what a helpful extension model would be and where we need "hooks" the most. Right now most would agree that the top panel would be nice for widgets/gadgets/"gizmos". I'm going to be implementing a "Show Desktop" for the top panel as a test demonstration.

Regarding "Recent Items": it's been a placeholder for a good while now, so there was no good effort to do anything with the design (like clearing the data or removing the panel).

The categories were a conscious design decision to try and emphasize the search bar, but it failed, and we're adding them back, although a lot of applications should be a lot better categorized: Accessories vs. System Tools vs. Programming vs. Preferences vs. Administration. Raise hands: Who else goes looking through each of those? The lines were always a bit blurred, and we'd like a bit better standards on those.

Yes, the design has sucked for a little bit now. It's been through several iterations and the current design, while neat (debatable), it's found a lot of scope creep. A lot of the good features in gnome 2 were underused, and a lot of the bad ones (unstable, technically unmaintainable, outdated) were overused.

We're doing some more new mockups and testing to see how you like it. We've gotten lots of feedback, doing some user testing, and we're rethinking how we do some design principles. No, we're not going to include "Wobbly Windows", we're looking for good user interface, not 5 minute OpenGL transformation demos applied to window textures..

There are still a few design issues standing with the new gnome-shell-design, but I have addressed mccann and jimmac, and we are looking forward to getting these resolved.

Instead of "it sucks", tell us why it sucks: do you not like the context switch of going to the overview and would like easier window/workspace switching? Is it slow (plug for the Shell Performance Not extensible enough? Are the colors too ugly?

tl;dr: read it. I don't need analysis or an essay. It's not that long, trust me.

I decided to try to build gnome-shell, I ran the build setup script 4 hours ago and now I'm at 75%. Is this normal?

Not normal for me, I downloaded and built the whole shell in around 40 mins.

magcius said: There are other things that are built besides gnome-shell during jhbuild time. These are not the only part of gnome3. Suggesting that we go to the commit log for gnome-shell is bad. There's no reason to go every time.

So, nowhere then? There's nothing equivalent to a change log anywhere?

cariboo907 said: I decided to try to build gnome-shell, I ran the build setup script 4 hours ago and now I'm at 75%. Is this normal?

What does the terminal say? Ever since GTK3 was included it does take quite a bit of time to download everything for GNOME Shell.

magcius said: There are other things that are built besides gnome-shell during jhbuild time. These are not the only part of gnome3. Suggesting that we go to the commit log for gnome-shell is bad. There's no reason to go every time.

Also, unfortunately, gnome-panel is not maintained currently, and probably won't have a maintainer again. So, while available, isn't going to be getting the bump to gnome 3 or upgrades. It's up to the maintainers now.

Why can't we use or extend compiz with a plugin? Because it's not under our control. We have to manipulate window textures and such. We'd rather have something that we control. Clutter (and its little brother mutter which was made for Moblin/Intel) were with our vision: the developers already worked on gnome, and had coding standards like gnome.

We're a little pressed on extensibility right now, and we know it sucks. Firefox/Mozilla's Add-ons were developed after people saw what kind of modifications people made to the codebase, and adding ways to make that easier. I'm doing the same thing in several ways, so I hope to present to the team what a helpful extension model would be and where we need "hooks" the most. Right now most would agree that the top panel would be nice for widgets/gadgets/"gizmos". I'm going to be implementing a "Show Desktop" for the top panel as a test demonstration.

Regarding "Recent Items": it's been a placeholder for a good while now, so there was no good effort to do anything with the design (like clearing the data or removing the panel).

The categories were a conscious design decision to try and emphasize the search bar, but it failed, and we're adding them back, although a lot of applications should be a lot better categorized: Accessories vs. System Tools vs. Programming vs. Preferences vs. Administration. Raise hands: Who else goes looking through each of those? The lines were always a bit blurred, and we'd like a bit better standards on those.

Yes, the design has sucked for a little bit now. It's been through several iterations and the current design, while neat (debatable), it's found a lot of scope creep. A lot of the good features in gnome 2 were underused, and a lot of the bad ones (unstable, technically unmaintainable, outdated) were overused.

We're doing some more new mockups and testing to see how you like it. We've gotten lots of feedback, doing some user testing, and we're rethinking how we do some design principles. No, we're not going to include "Wobbly Windows", we're looking for good user interface, not 5 minute OpenGL transformation demos applied to window textures..

There are still a few design issues standing with the new gnome-shell-design, but I have addressed mccann and jimmac, and we are looking forward to getting these resolved.

Instead of "it sucks", tell us why it sucks: do you not like the context switch of going to the overview and would like easier window/workspace switching? Is it slow (plug for the Shell Performance Not extensible enough? Are the colors too ugly?

tl;dr: read it. I don't need analysis or an essay. It's not that long, trust me. I really like the menus as they are in the current gnome, all of them. Yes I use the catagories and have no trouble with them.

A bunch of icons, that you have to memorize, cluttering things up are not needed at all unless you are an avid employee of business' that use pictures on their cash registers.

Text is neater and takes up less room.

As for your colors I have not built GS in a while and want to. Reading the problems folks are having does not encourage this. The last time I had up I had to change the theme from another OS on the drive because looking at the default (black) theme made me have eye twitches and a migraine in the first 5 minutes. From that, I would say that the folks designing it have very strange taste in themes.

There are, or were, lots of much better themes available from folks around the forum though. Therefore it is not something I worry about. I was even able to mess with it a bit. That was very nice.

The design is pretty bad for me as far as using it goes. I have 6 work spaces with different, and multible, things on each and use them all. I have the switcher at top center of my screen and can get to the one I need very fast with one move of the mouse. None of this gratuitous wild swinging of the mouse back and forth across the screen and obnoxious zooming in and out.

I think the current design is probably usable if you use one work space and do not much more than chat and watch YouTube clips (gossip and giggles).

A decent menu and some usable way to us work spaces are really just foundational needs for this to work in a non irritating manner.

The last mockup I saw looked more like the Unity desktop which I would say in a big improvement but lacking in the flexibility that I am used to and which made me decide to use gnome in the first place.

Thank you for the information on GS and Gnome3. Very interesting and informative.

I hope the directions for building work next week as I intend to put (attempt anyway) GS on one of my 10.10 installs and give it a whirl.

What does the terminal say?

Ever since GTK3 was included it does take quite a bit of time to download everything for GNOME Shell.

I got tired of waiting yesterday, so I am downloading it again today. This has been running for just over 2 hours:

/bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh
Checking out jhbuild into /home/me/Source/jhbuild ... remote: Counting objects: 23058, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5913/5913), done.
Receiving objects:   4% (923/23058), 172.00 KiB

I think something is in error. ;/ Do you have a good connection with the destination?

cariboo907 said: I got tired of waiting yesterday, so I am downloading it again today. This has been running for just over 2 hours:

/bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh
Checking out jhbuild into /home/me/Source/jhbuild ... remote: Counting objects: 23058, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5913/5913), done.
Receiving objects:   4% (923/23058), 172.00 KiB

As long as that receiving objects percentage is going up you're fine. Like I said a lot has to be downloaded. On the plus side, once everything builds successfully, subsequent runs of "jhbuild build" will only download the parts that have changed so it will be much quicker

But that's only jhbuild - there's definitely something wrong. Checking out jhbuild should be done in no time.

NightwishFan said: I think something is in error. ;/ Do you have a good connection with the destination?

In a browser I can connect to the gnome-shell git index almost instantly.

I decided to try building since the PPA is so far behind. So far so good, but how long will this take to compile? Normally I make -j5 (which builds the entire Wine tree in about 5 minutes) but that didn't appear to be an option in this case.

It takes me about 40 minutes with a i7-940 clocked @ 3.8ghz. That's a clean build without any major downloads.

It built fine, but it doesn't seem to save dconf settings. Meaning my favorites aren't retained when I restart among other things. What am I missing/how do I remedy it?

mblackwell said: it built fine, but it doesn't seem to save dconf settings. Meaning my favorites aren't retained when i restart among other things. What am i missing/how do i remedy it?

+1

I finally managed to get gnome-shell to build, on a system running Lucid.

Mblackwell said: It built fine, but it doesn't seem to save dconf settings. Meaning my favorites aren't retained when I restart among other things. What am I missing/how do I remedy it?

I have this issue as well.

Completely purge the ricotz ppa if you had it installed before. Then uninstall any copies of gnome-shell remaining, and all dependencies that went with it. When you're clean make sure to reinstall any necessary packages to get the build-setup script working.

(note: in my case some ubuntu-desktop packages ended up removed by the end, so I ran apt-get install -f to fix this)

Then delete the ~/.config/dconf folder and /usr/lib/*.la to remove old modules(you may need to use sudo for the second) and if you've already compiled delete the ~/gnome-shell/install folder.

Then run gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/shell and follow that with gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-shell

When all this is done run jhbuild build -afc

You should now have a nice working copy of gnome-shell with dconf settings saved. Thanks to magcius and drago01 for the help, it took basically all day to figure out what exactly was going on.

In addition repo installed copies of gnome-shell may have linked gsettings-data-convert to your startup applications. Since this doesn't exist globally anymore you'll have to change this to your local copy (~/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings/gsettings-data-convert).

Someone point out if that's even a necessary program to have running anymore.

I think liborbit2-dev are now needed for the compilation.

Hi all, I want to test gnome shell, I tried every thing to build and every time I got a error, now I have this message "vala-0.9.4 not found" and when I look into ~/gnome-shell/source I see that he "git" vala-.0.9.3, any idea how to fix this ?

I'm also having an issue where I run the gnome-shell-build-setup.sh, and it tells me

GNOME 2.26 or newer is required to build GNOME Shell

I'm running Lucid, so what the heck! I checked the script, and that's the first thing it checks!

Tchus said: Hi all,

I want to test gnome shell, I tried every thing to build and every time I got a error, now I have this message "vala-0.9.4 not found" and when I look into ~/gnome-shell/source I see that he "git" vala-.0.9.3, any idea how to fix this ?

Having the same issue... something related to

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626000

any known workaround while bug is opened?

I just built gnome-shell on lucid yesterday, with no problems. If I remember correctly lucid uses gnome 2.28.

Tchus said: Hi all,

I want to test gnome shell, I tried every thing to build and every time I got a error, now I have this message "vala-0.9.4 not found" and when I look into ~/gnome-shell/source I see that he "git" vala-.0.9.3, any idea how to fix this ?

Had the same problem.

Just to fix this quick and dirty you could just build vala-0.9.4 yourself.

$ wget http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.9/vala-0.9.4.tar.bz2

extract to anywhere you want.

$ ./configure && make
$ cp compiler/valac ~/gnome-shell/install/bin/

run jhbuild again.

It is not very elegant, but at least it works until the developers have found a solution ;)

Mblackwell said: Completely purge the ricotz ppa if you had it installed before. Then uninstall any copies of gnome-shell remaining, and all dependencies that went with it. When you're clean make sure to reinstall any necessary packages to get the build-setup script working.

How can you be sure everything is clean? How can you obtain a list of all dependecies gnome-shell install (from official repositories and from ricotz)?

Mblackwell said:

In addition repo installed copies of gnome-shell may have linked gsettings-data-convert to your startup applications. Since this doesn't exist globally anymore you'll have to change this to your local copy (~/gnome-shell/source/gconf/gsettings/gsettings-data-convert).

Someone point out if that's even a necessary program to have running anymore.

How is it done?

Thanks!

The moduleset was updated to vala 0.9.4 yesterday, it should be fine to build now.

You can look at the ricotz PPA page to see what the packages you should uninstall are, but the major one you need to uninstall is called d-conf; Debian's dconf is unrelated.

You can remove gsettings-data-convert (you shouldn't need it in the startup applications) by using the Startup Applications dialog in System Preferences or deleting the appropriate .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart

On Lucid I'm getting a different dconf problem to what has been described earlier. Is anyone else seeing this?

  GISCAN dconf-0.3.gir
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/xxx/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 38, in <module>
    sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv))
  File "/home/xxx/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 330, in scanner_main
    glibtransformer.get_get_type_functions())
  File "/home/xxx/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/dumper.py", line 246, in compile_introspection_binary
    return dc.run()
  File "/home/xxx/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/dumper.py", line 132, in run
    self._link(bin_path, o_path)
  File "/home/xxx/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/dumper.py", line 241, in _link
    subprocess.check_call(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 493, in check_call
    retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 480, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [dconf-0.3.gir] Error 1

I get this error when I try to build..

* Configuring gdk-pixbuf * [7/21]

./autogen.sh --prefix /home/tomas/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/tomas/gnome-shell/install/lib64' --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc ./autogen.sh: 113: autopoint: not found * Error during phase configure of gdk-pixbuf: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/tomas/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/tomas/gnome-shell/install/lib64' --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc * [7/21]

[1] Rerun phase configure [2] Ignore error and continue to build [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "clean" [8] Go to phase "distclean" choice:

Anything I can do?

Tried distclean, clean, wipe directory, rerun.

Tompalaz said: Anything I can do?

You must install the package "autopoint"

sudo apt-get install autopoint

JustRon said: You must install the package "autopoint"

sudo apt-get install autopoint

Thanks!

Mblackwell said:

and /usr/lib/*.la to remove old modules(you may need to use sudo for the second)

This will ruin all the ubuntu *-dev packages and make it impossible to compile any other programs that want to link to libraries isn't it?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623952#c11

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles

It worked :) Thanks

alphonce said: it's a bug with git (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/151529)

a workaround:

download http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules

and change the '%2d' to a '+' at row 88. then change ~/.jhbuildrc at row 21, comment the original moduleset row and add a custom one to your altered gnome-shell.modules i.e. ``` moduleset = '/home/josef/Source/gnome-shell.modules'

and run jhbuild again. works for me :p

jhbuild build

Here is Gnome-shell running on my HP DV2124 TU laptop.

Just one problem. The Volume indicator is missing.

tanmays said: Just one problem. The Volume indicator is missing.

add an entry to your startup applications for 'gnome-volume-control-applet'

it should appear when you restart your session. ;)

Does anyone else have the ugly right click menu on the window borders?

Are you running gnome-shell with sudo or as root? That may cause it.

No I built and run as my own user. I will poke around a bit. I believe it does it with just mutter as well.

FYI--Gnomelook.org has a couple of themes just out---Half-left has been making some that work with the build GS. Also available here: http://half-left.deviantart.com/

The Ambiance theme works very well---a little light on the overlay for my taste, but much better than the default theme!!!!!

Just setup his Sonar theme--looks very good!!

That does look pretty nice. I am not a fan of GS but they did have the right idea when making it easy to make themes for it.

There are quite a few nice ones out there.

tanmays said: Here is Gnome-shell running on my HP DV2124 TU laptop.

Is it conky?? If so ... when you're switching between apps (alt+tab) is conky visible on list of running apps?? I can not figure out how to get rid conky from GS alt+tab list.

it's my conky config about this:

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
#own_window_type override 
#own_window_type desktop
#own_window_hints sticky,skip_taskbar
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

Hey guys, just checking in, wondering if anyone's heard if compiz has started work to support gnome shell or if someone's working on a replacement.

Based on a closer read of the first post I'm guessing not. Bummer, looks like I have some work to do.

What do you need from Compiz in gnome-shell?

They are not, and never will be compatible.

Compiz is a window manager, gnome-shell is a window manager too. They won't be compatible without serious effort.

A slight correction: Mutter (Metacity + Clutter) is the window manager - Gnome-Shell is just a plugin for Mutter (just like Unity is)

Yes, that's true now, but it won't be in the future.

mutter is planned to be a library, since the plugin interface is good in theory, but risky, finicky, and terrible to work with.

So, mutter will only be an auxiliary to Moblin and gnome-shell.

Half-left has posted a new theme for GS---Elementary.... Look at his Deviant-Art page for it...see my post at the top of the page.....

Hmm, doing a completely clean build, and I get this:

*** Configuring gdk-pixbuf *** [7/21]
./autogen.sh --prefix /home/david/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/david/gnome-shell/install/lib'  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc 
./autogen.sh: 113: autopoint: not found
*** Error during phase configure of gdk-pixbuf: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/david/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/david/gnome-shell/install/lib'  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [7/21]

Prevents me from going any further.

davideotape said: Hmm, doing a completely clean build, and I get this:

*** Configuring gdk-pixbuf *** [7/21]
./autogen.sh --prefix /home/david/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/david/gnome-shell/install/lib'  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc 
./autogen.sh: 113: autopoint: not found
*** Error during phase configure of gdk-pixbuf: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh --prefix /home/david/gnome-shell/install --libdir '/home/david/gnome-shell/install/lib'  --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [7/21]

Look a couple of pages ago---you need to "sudo apt-get install autopoint" or use your favorite package manager.....That will clear that problem---there are several others right now that I'm working thru---will post with "solutions" if they look interesting......

Hi Ricotz,

I used your PPA to look at gnome shell testing and recently upgraded to Maverick Alpha 3. When the upgrade complete the apt-get tools started complaining.

The following packages have unmet dependencies: gir1.0-glib-2.0 : Depends: libgirepository1.0-1 (>= 0.9.3) but it is not going to be installed python-gobject : Depends: libgirepository1.0-1 (>= 0.6.14) but it is not going to be installed python-gobject-cairo : Depends: libgirepository1.0-1 (>= 0.6.3) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

It doesn't matter what I do I cant seem to get rid of this message any suggestions?

GraemeLockett said:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: gir1.0-glib-2.0 : Depends: libgirepository1.0-1 (>= 0.9.3) but it is not going to be installed python-gobject : Depends: libgirepository1.0-1 (>= 0.6.14) but it is not going to be installed python-gobject-cairo : Depends: libgirepository1.0-1 (>= 0.6.3) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Gnome-shell is broken at the moment in maverick. A number of packages are rebuilt against the new gobject-introspection (0.93). But package gnome-shell is missing right now. The old gnome-shell_2.31.2-1ubuntu1 cannot be installed on to the new upgraded maverick.

Your problem is also about the gobject-introspection. It contains three packages: gir1.0-freedesktop, gir1.0-glib-2.0 and libgirepository1.0-1. The latter is a new one and it conflicts the old one (libgirepository1.0-0). You must remove the old package.

You should not use Rico's PPA at the moment at all. It contains only some of GS packages and no gnome-shell at all. Wait until maverick gets updated and use Gnome-panel meanwhile.

Hmm, next error I'm getting is

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ug.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/po-properties'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gtk3: ########## Error running make   *** [8/21]

Does anyone know if/when Rico's ppa will have the full set of gnome-shell files?

anyone else getting the following at the end while building gnome-shell itself? ``` CC libtray_la-na-tray-child.lo cc1: warnings being treated as errors tray/na-tray-child.c: In function &#8216;na_tray_child_new&#8217;: tray/na-tray-child.c:268: error: implicit declaration of function &#8216;gdk_screen_get_rgb_visual&#8217; tray/na-tray-child.c:268: error: comparison between pointer and integer tray/na-tray-child.c:269: error: implicit declaration of function &#8216;gdk_screen_get_rgb_colormap&#8217; tray/na-tray-child.c:269: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

davideotape said: Hmm, next error I'm getting is

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ug.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/po-properties'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gtk3: ########## Error running make   *** [8/21]

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gtk3 && cp po/ug.po po-properties/

gotjazz said: anyone else getting the following at the end while building gnome-shell itself? ```

CC libtray_la-na-tray-child.lo cc1: warnings being treated as errors tray/na-tray-child.c: In function &#8216;na_tray_child_new&#8217;: tray/na-tray-child.c:268: error: implicit declaration of function &#8216;gdk_screen_get_rgb_visual&#8217; tray/na-tray-child.c:268: error: comparison between pointer and integer tray/na-tray-child.c:269: error: implicit declaration of function &#8216;gdk_screen_get_rgb_colormap&#8217; tray/na-tray-child.c:269: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

Yes. gtk+ just went through a big API break. We're getting patches ready and hopefully things should work tomorrow. Hopefully. There haven't been that many changes if you already have a built copy.


To those using ricotz's PPA: don't. He isn't updating it anymore. It screws up your system in ways I don't understand (APT dependency problems). It's old, will be old, and won't work.

"To those using ricotz's PPA: don't. He isn't updating it anymore. It screws up your system in ways I don't understand (APT dependency problems). It's old, will be old, and won't work."

If this is true, then some sort of announcement needs to be made, because there are several articles out there regarding gnome-shell that point to his PPA. There will be lots of confused and disappointed people...

It is best not to use any distribution packages from now on, until release of gnome3. Please, please, please use jhbuild.

Why?

gnome-shell requires gtk3. gtk3 has an API and API break. A very extreme one from now on.

A system-wide installation of gtk3 is going to break. Break bad. Break hard.

jhbuild does sandboxing with a bunch of environment hacks to make sure that gtk3 only runs for gnome-shell and a couple other things. It never touches your system libraries, it installs into a separate prefix.

Yes, things are broken right now with building from jhbuild. This is the API/ABI break I mentioned. It should hopefully be cleared up tomorrow.

EDIT: looks like libgtk has been renamed to libgtk-x11-3.0.so after the break. So, yeah, my bad, a recent PPA should work fine.

It looks like ricotz' PPA has been updated sometime today, but does not include all the libraries that are needed. The jhbuild dependencies were just updated to cairo 1.9.14 to fix a rendering problem. There's about 14 or 15 other dependencies that we require. jhbuild will do the right thing. ricotz may not update the dependencies for several days.

Nothing against ricotz. I'm not saying he's unable, or unwilling, I'm saying that jhbuild is automatic, and ricotz is human. Same goes for any other system package maintainer.

magcius said:

It looks like ricotz' PPA has been updated sometime today, but does not include all the libraries that are needed. The jhbuild dependencies were just updated to cairo 1.9.14 to fix a rendering problem. There's about 14 or 15 other dependencies that we require. jhbuild will do the right thing. ricotz may not update the dependencies for several days.

Nothing against ricotz. I'm not saying he's unable, or unwilling, I'm saying that jhbuild is automatic, and ricotz is human. Same goes for any other system package maintainer.

Building GS with jhbuild works if source is in working condition.

But using a PPA (like Rico's) will only work when and as long as it is fully compatible with maverick's most recent upgrades/updates. And because a lot of gnome packages will be rebuilt and upgraded quite often now, they will possibly break GS from any PPA as well. If you demand that Rico should be able keep the GS in his PPA in working order, he would have to rebuilt almost whole gnome at the same time as mavericks official packages are rebuilt.

The package gnome-shell is missing from maverick's repos right now, because there is no one around to rebuilt all the time and follow these ABI breaks.

Next error I'm getting is in gtk-engines-3:

  CC     clearlooks_style.lo
./src/clearlooks_style.c: In function ‘clearlooks_style_draw_box’:
./src/clearlooks_style.c:775: warning: #warning Assuming non-pulsing progress bars because there is currently no way to query them in GTK+ 3.0.
./src/clearlooks_style.c: In function ‘clearlooks_style_draw_layout’:
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1796: error: ‘GdkGC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1796: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1796: error: for each function it appears in.)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1796: error: ‘gc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1801: error: ‘GtkStyle’ has no member named ‘text_gc’
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1801: error: ‘GtkStyle’ has no member named ‘fg_gc’
./src/clearlooks_style.c:1808: error: ‘old_gc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [clearlooks_style.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines/clearlooks'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of gtk-engines-3: ########## Error running make   *** [10/21]

OK, here's the result of my last attempt to compile:

make[3]: Entering directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/librsvg/gtk-engine' CC libsvg_la-svg-draw.lo CC libsvg_la-svg-main.lo CC libsvg_la-svg-render.lo CC libsvg_la-svg-rc-style.lo CCLD libsvg.la CC libsvg_3_la-svg-draw.lo CC libsvg_3_la-svg-main.lo CC libsvg_3_la-svg-render.lo svg-render.c: In function ‘pixbuf_render’: svg-render.c:430: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_draw_pixbuf’ svg-render.c:430: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_draw_pixbuf’ svg-render.c:434: error: ‘GDK_RGB_DITHER_NORMAL’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:434: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once svg-render.c:434: error: for each function it appears in.) svg-render.c: In function ‘theme_pixbuf_render’: svg-render.c:831: error: ‘GdkGC’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:831: error: ‘tmp_gc’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:832: error: ‘GdkGCValues’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:832: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘gc_values’ svg-render.c:838: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_gc_new’ svg-render.c:838: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_gc_new’ svg-render.c:843: error: ‘GDK_RGB_DITHER_NORMAL’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:847: error: ‘gc_values’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:847: error: ‘GDK_TILED’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:849: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_gc_new_with_values’ svg-render.c:849: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_gc_new_with_values’ svg-render.c:850: error: ‘GDK_GC_FILL’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:850: error: ‘GDK_GC_TILE’ undeclared (first use in this function) svg-render.c:852: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_draw_rectangle’ svg-render.c:852: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_draw_rectangle’ make[3]: * [libsvg_3_la-svg-render.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/librsvg/gtk-engine' make[2]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/librsvg/gtk-engine' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/librsvg' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of librsvg: ########## Error running make * [9/21]

[1] Rerun phase build [2] Ignore error and continue to install [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "configure" [8] Go to phase "clean" [9] Go to phase "distclean" choice:

Is this something that I just wait for new code to come along?

I can confirm being unable to build gtk-engines-3 and librsvg. I have no solution as of late.

NightwishFan,

Thanks for corroborating. I am hoping it's just part of the GTK api changes mentioned up-thread and will soon resolve itself.

On a side-note, does anyone know if there's been movement on the different background on each workspace with GS?

Also, could someone weigh-in on the relative benefits of building on Lucid vs. using the PPA?

Thanks, in-advance.

I do have an librsvg patch, but I don't have anybody who can apply it for me.

Here are the patches you need to apply:

mutter -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626583 librsvg -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626605

With gtk-engines-3 you can choose 'give up on this module' or apply all the patches in this bug. Most of the direct Gdk call patching is in a lot of old themes that are, uh, old, like Raleigh and crux and so on.

gtk-engines-3 -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626678 (optional)

It's easiest to patch these guys with git-bz.

To get git-bz:

sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4

Apply the patches:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines
yes | git bz apply 626678
cd ~/gnome-shell/source/mutter
yes | git bz apply 626583
cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg
yes | git bz apply 626605

Rebuild.

Thanks magcius!

Unfortunately, bugzilla.gnome.org is not responding this morning, but I'll keep trying. I am very curious to get GS compiled - it's been a while since I've tested it, and I know it's come a long way...

Yeah, the rack at RH that hosts a large portion of gnome infrastructure is down, along with several other RH/Fedora sites.

Yes, I see now that gnome.org is completely offline. Oh well, I must be patient... I'll try again later.

magcius said: I do have an librsvg patch, but I don't have anybody who can apply it for me.

Here are the patches you need to apply:

mutter -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626583 librsvg -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626605

With gtk-engines-3 you can choose 'give up on this module' or apply all the patches in this bug. Most of the direct Gdk call patching is in a lot of old themes that are, uh, old, like Raleigh and crux and so on.

gtk-engines-3 -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626678 (optional)

It's easiest to patch these guys with git-bz.

To get git-bz:

sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines
yes | git bz apply 626678
cd ~/gnome-shell/source/mutter
yes | git bz apply 626583
cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg
yes | git bz apply 626605

The site is back upright now......Only problem is that I'm getting a "permission denied" when I run the sudo curl fetch for git-bz.....``` sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4

autocrosser said: The site is back upright now......Only problem is that I'm getting a "permission denied" when I run the sudo curl fetch for git-bz.....```

sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4

If it's giving an error, mind pasting it? WFM.

I just hand-installed git-bz & got the patches done--building now....we'll see how it goes.

Well, for me, now the compile pukes on gconf.

Someone please post here when there is a compilable set of code. I've tried my best to get everything patched and good, but no joy.

Several errors--I forced it thru--but not pretty.......

*** Checking out librsvg *** [9/21]
git pull --rebase
It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase.
*** Error during phase checkout of librsvg: ########## Error running git pull --rebase *** [9/21]

  [1] Rerun phase checkout
  [2] Ignore error and continue to configure
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"

Well--it's a non-run right now...guess I'll wait for a day or so.....

git-am is in progress.

That usually means the patch didn't apply.

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg && git am --abort

mutter not building, bz patch not working... any cure?

I also can't get mutter to compile:

  CC     workspace.o
  CC     xprops.o
  CC     fixedtip.o
  CC     frames.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
ui/frames.c: In function ‘setup_bg_cr’:
ui/frames.c:2014: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2014: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_background’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_background’
make[4]: *** [frames.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/goudouyaosi/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/goudouyaosi/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/goudouyaosi/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/goudouyaosi/gnome-shell/source/mutter'
make: *** [all] Error 2
***** Error during phase build of mutter: ########## Error running make   *** [14/21]**

Seems like there are still some gdk functions that didn't get patched to use cairo.

mutter can be compiled now..

delete git-bz in /usr/lib/git-core/ again : sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4 cd ~/gnome-shell/source/mutter yes | git bz apply 626583

then,

cd gnome-shell/install/lib rm -rf *.la jhbuild buildone gnome-shell -acf

rebuild.

Awesome! That worked. I got my first gnome-shell compilation working :D.

Well, I'm at the point where it compiles all the way down to gnome-shell itself, 20/21, and it starts throwing "undefined references". The first post says to remove the .la files, but then it complains about them being missing. Is there anything I can do to drive this thing through to completion?

Paste the error message.

There's a few things that could cause undefined references right now.

It goes like this:

make[3]: Entering directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src' CCLD test-theme /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring_array' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_set_variant' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_new_bytestring' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_param_spec_variant' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_is_floating' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_dcgettext' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_get_variant' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_error_get_type' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libclutter-glx-1.0.so: undefined reference to g_object_notify_by_pspec' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgtk-x11-3.0.so: undefined reference to g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VARIANT' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libclutter-glx-1.0.so: undefined reference to g_source_set_name' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_value_dup_variant' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_compare' /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/libgio-2.0.so: undefined reference to g_variant_get_bytestring' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: * [test-theme] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src' make[2]: * [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of gnome-shell: ########## Error running make * [20/21]

[1] Rerun phase build [2] Ignore error and continue to install [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "configure" [8] Go to phase "clean" [9] Go to phase "distclean" choice:

Quick guess that you previously had GS installed via PPA?

You say you have removed all the .la files?

In all of /usr/lib, /usr/lib64 and ~/gnome-shell/install/lib?

Oh, and ppa-purge ricotz's PPA too.

Then also sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell (because it will replace the ppa version with the repo version which is also wrong).

I was getting the same error message as chenxiaolong. Removed la files as per magcius suggestion. I also had gnome-shell installed via ppa, ppa-purge did not work, but I *think* I have managed to manually remove it. Now receiving the following error message:

libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -shared  .libs/imam-et.o   -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk/.libs -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gtk/.libs -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64 -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64 -L/home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64 ../../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-3.0.so ../../gtk/.libs/libgtk-x11-3.0.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so -lX11 -lXcomposite -lXdamage -lXfixes /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libatk-1.0.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libcairo.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lm -lpng12 /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgio-2.0.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libpango-1.0.so -lfreetype -lfontconfig /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /home/jon/gnome-shell/install/lib64/libglib-2.0.so  -pthread   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,im-am-et.so -o .libs/im-am-et.so
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libfreetype.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [im-am-et.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/modules/input'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/gtk3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gtk3: ########## Error running make   *** [8/21]

You need to rebuild everything.

Probably best to delete the installation folder (~/gnome-shell/install)

Otherwise libtool et al will hold on to the old .la files.

Cheers for help so far... I'm going to leave it for the day with the following error:

ui/frames.c: In function ‘setup_bg_cr’:
ui/frames.c:2014: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2014: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_background’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_background’
make[4]: *** [frames.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of mutter: ########## Error running make   *** [14/21]

magcius said: You need to rebuild everything.

Probably best to delete the installation folder (~/gnome-shell/install)

Otherwise libtool et al will hold on to the old .la files.

4leite said: Cheers for help so far... I'm going to leave it for the day with the following error:

ui/frames.c: In function ‘setup_bg_cr’:
ui/frames.c:2014: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2014: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_background’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_background’
make[4]: *** [frames.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of mutter: ########## Error running make   *** [14/21]

See the instructions a page or earlier about applying the patches from bugzilla.

In fmueller's latest patch, he screwed up a GTK+ version check.

This should fix it:

sed -i.bak 's/GTK_VERSION/GTK_CHECK_VERSION/' ~/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src/ui/frames.c

If you get patch errors, cd to the module and git reset --hard origin.

magcius said: I do have an librsvg patch, but I don't have anybody who can apply it for me.

Here are the patches you need to apply:

mutter -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626583 librsvg -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626605

With gtk-engines-3 you can choose 'give up on this module' or apply all the patches in this bug. Most of the direct Gdk call patching is in a lot of old themes that are, uh, old, like Raleigh and crux and so on.

gtk-engines-3 -- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626678 (optional)

It's easiest to patch these guys with git-bz.

To get git-bz:

sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4

Apply the patches:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines
yes | git bz apply 626678
cd ~/gnome-shell/source/mutter
yes | git bz apply 626583
cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg
yes | git bz apply 626605

Rebuild.

I have build gnome-shell under Linux Mint 9 (Ubuntu 10.04) following these instruction. But it seems very slow and crashes most of the time.

Previously I had built it 2 weeks before when it was fast and usable. But this time I think its not usable for me.

Hope things to get better in future :)

I have just updated Chromium browser to Version 7.0.497. Whenever I try to type in the address bar of chromium browser, Gnome-shell restarts. Seems like a bug !!!

However, for the time being Gnome-shell is pretty useless for me due to restarts and crashes.

Hello all, and thanks for all the help so far!

Anyway, I never installed the PPA GS on this system, but I did install the stock repo version, and deleted it before embarking on this project.

I did in fact delete all the .la files from both /usr/lib and ~/gnome-shell/install/lib. Everything was going along fine until gnome-shell (20/21) started complaining about not finding the .la files. I copied them back in one by one as gnome-shell "asked" for them, and finally got the "undefined reference" errors posted above.

So near, and yet so far! What next?

Well, I deleted ~/gnome-shell, made sure all .la files were deleted, and started over. Applied the librsvg and mutter patches successfully. Things were cruising along nicely until:

treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_init’: treeset.c:2675: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c:2676: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_init_head’: treeset.c:2689: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_init_tail’: treeset.c:2699: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_cut’: treeset.c:2791: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c:2798: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type CCLD libgee.la /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --shared-library=libgee -o Gee-1.0.typelib Gee-1.0.gir Gee-1.0.gir:2035:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2102:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2295:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2441:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2481:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2730:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2766:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2873:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3114:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3288:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3414:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3738:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3782:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3801:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4016:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4176:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4473:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4513:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4653:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4656:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4672:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:5042:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:5055:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir: error: Type reference 'EqualDataFunc' not found make[2]: * [Gee-1.0.typelib] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/libgee' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of libgee: ########## Error running make *** [17/21]

[1] Rerun phase build [2] Ignore error and continue to install [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "configure" [8] Go to phase "clean" [9] Go to phase "distclean" choice:

Now what?

sgage said: Hello all, and thanks for all the help so far!

Anyway, I never installed the PPA GS on this system, but I did install the stock repo version, and deleted it before embarking on this project.

I did in fact delete all the .la files from both /usr/lib and ~/gnome-shell/install/lib. Everything was going along fine until gnome-shell (20/21) started complaining about not finding the .la files. I copied them back in one by one as gnome-shell "asked" for them, and finally got the "undefined reference" errors posted above.

So near, and yet so far! What next?

Paste the exact error messages?

re: slowness

The slowness is our fault: we're creating a bunch of FBOs, which is inherently expensive, but significantly worse on nVidia.

You can revert commit 0905 in gnome-shell if you want to go back to where it was before.

sgage said: Well, I deleted ~/gnome-shell, made sure all .la files were deleted, and started over. Applied the librsvg and mutter patches successfully. Things were cruising along nicely until:

treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_init’: treeset.c:2675: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c:2676: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_init_head’: treeset.c:2689: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_init_tail’: treeset.c:2699: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c: In function ‘gee_tree_set_range_cut’: treeset.c:2791: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type treeset.c:2798: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type CCLD libgee.la /home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-compiler --shared-library=libgee -o Gee-1.0.typelib Gee-1.0.gir Gee-1.0.gir:2035:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2102:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2295:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2441:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2481:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2730:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2766:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:2873:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3114:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3288:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3414:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3738:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3782:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:3801:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4016:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4176:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4473:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4513:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4653:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4656:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:4672:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:5042:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir:5055:1: warning: dropping to PASSTHROUGH Gee-1.0.gir: error: Type reference 'EqualDataFunc' not found make[2]: * [Gee-1.0.typelib] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/libgee/gee' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/libgee' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of libgee: ########## Error running make *** [17/21]

[1] Rerun phase build [2] Ignore error and continue to install [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "configure" [8] Go to phase "clean" [9] Go to phase "distclean" choice:

Now what?

Verified myself with a build here.

I just successfully completed a compile...

Still needed the librsvg and mutter patches, but it compiled to completion.

Now to explore a bit...

Thanks, everyone!

So, assuming a clean build (delete everything & start fresh)---what is needing to be patched/modified to have a good build?

Any idea when the files will be updated so a run can be made without patching files?

autocrosser said: So, assuming a clean build (delete everything & start fresh)---what is needing to be patched/modified to have a good build?

Any idea when the files will be updated so a run can be made without patching files? I would like to know this too. I would really like to put it back on one of my installs.

I also, certainly, do not like it well enough to fight with it.

I have 3 installs that I could put it on. No deletions needed as GS has never been on them. Anytime the bugger will build I will put it on here.

4leite said: Cheers for help so far... I'm going to leave it for the day with the following error:

ui/frames.c: In function ‘setup_bg_cr’:
ui/frames.c:2014: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2014: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_back_pixmap’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_get_background’
ui/frames.c:2031: error: nested extern declaration of ‘gdk_window_get_background’
make[4]: *** [frames.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/gnome-shell/source/mutter'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of mutter: ########## Error running make   *** [14/21]

Same error for me today. :(

I am encountering the following error :

CC default_la-default.lo

CCLD default.la /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libfreetype.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: /usr/lib/libfreetype.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[4]: * [default.la] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory /home/tanmay/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src/compositor/plugins' make[3]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /home/tanmay/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src' make[2]: * [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/tanmay/gnome-shell/source/mutter/src' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tanmay/gnome-shell/source/mutter' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of mutter: ########## Error running make *** [14/21]

[1] Rerun phase build [2] Ignore error and continue to install [3] Give up on module [4] Start shell [5] Reload configuration [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over" [7] Go to phase "configure" [8] Go to phase "clean" [9] Go to phase "distclean" choice:

What to do ?

Here's what I did to successfully compile yesterday:

I backed up and deleted all the .la files in /usr/lib.

Delete ~/gnome-shell/install

Applied the patches posted by magcius a few pages back:

"It's easiest to patch these guys with git-bz.

To get git-bz:

Code:

sudo curl http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/plain/git-bz > /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz && chmod +x !#:4

Apply the patches:

Code:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines yes | git bz apply 626678 cd ~/gnome-shell/source/mutter yes | git bz apply 626583 cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg yes | git bz apply 626605"

Actually, I did not have to apply the gtk-engines patch.

If you have deleted your entire gnome-shell directory to start fresh, you'll have to wait until the process fails during mutter/librsvg, so the source will have been downloaded so you can patch it.

After doing these things, it compiled!

I just completed a fresh compile from scratch (deleted my entire gnome-shell directory). The issue with mutter seems to have been addressed in the source - the only patch I had to apply was the librsvg patch.

Complied fresh and jhbuild finished without any error.

But gnome-shell crashes everytime I try to type something in a browser window.

The following error is repeatedly displayed in the terminal :

(gnome-panel:2801): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-panel:2801): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-panel:2884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

What to do?

That's a new one on me.

I'd just wait a bit and try again. You didn't get the librsvg error? That's the last one left for me...

ranch hand said: I would like to know this too. I would really like to put it back on one of my installs.

I also, certainly, do not like it well enough to fight with it.

I have 3 installs that I could put it on. No deletions needed as GS has never been on them. Anytime the bugger will build I will put it on here.

you might be waiting for while at this rate =) I don't mind fighting the build but this is becoming really hard to keep up. Maybe time to get one good build and wait for while.

ktp said: you might be waiting for while at this rate =) I don't mind fighting the build but this is becoming really hard to keep up. Maybe time to get one good build and wait for while.

I can understand that. I just have never liked what I saw when I got it up.

I do want to see where it is now and where it may be going but I am not going to waste time on it. I do have some confidence that they will get it straightened out.

The kernel keeps changing and the big xorg change can not have been the easiest thing to work through. I would say that is probably the problem with the ppa too.

This thread is very interesting and I enjoy following it. I just do not think it worth the hassle at this time.

finally!

* success * [21/21]

cheers magcius et al

Librsvg still fails for me, however I used "jhbuild buildone" on gnome-shell and mutter and the shell launches.

librsvg is the only patch you need to apply.

I've tried to contact people to apply the patch upstream. I failed. I'll keep trying.

It's not under active development, and I wish there was a replacement, because it's very slow.

just finished building successfully without any patches.

one annoying thing: sometimes gnome-shell crashes when using dropdown boxes in Chromium.

Installed Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3. Installed Gnome-Shell 2.31.5 from the ubuntu repository.

Now GS don't load with the following message:

(mutter:1766): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]

Pressing Ctrl+C crashes the Terminal.

youoh said: just finished building successfully without any patches.

one annoying thing: sometimes gnome-shell crashes when using dropdown boxes in Chromium.

Same happened to me previously. Typing in the address bar of chromium always crashed GS.

Please, please, please, don't use gnome-shell from the ubuntu repos NOR ricotz's PPA. They are old, and won't work.

Use jhbuild as outlined in the first post. You will need a patch for librsvg: unfortunately, I can't get it upstream, I've tried. I will try some more, but none of the maintainers are reachable.

Do this after you get a build error for librsvg when using jhbuild:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg
yes | git bz apply 626605

And then choose option 1: Rerun phase build.

Merk42: mind adding these instructions to the OP, along with fixing your formatting?

OK, I'll bite. What is Ctrl+C supposed to do?

I am only familiar with -c to clear the history.

magcius said: Please, please, please, don't use gnome-shell from the ubuntu repos NOR ricotz's PPA. They are old, and won't work.

Use jhbuild as outlined in the first post. You will need a patch for librsvg: unfortunately, I can't get it upstream, I've tried. I will try some more, but none of the maintainers are reachable.

Do this after you get a build error for librsvg when using jhbuild:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/librsvg
yes | git bz apply 626605

Merk42: mind adding these instructions to the OP, along with fixing your formatting?

OK--That went clean---now I get a build error in gjs:`` * Building gjs * [15/21] make make all-am make[1]: Entering directory /home/dean/gnome-shell/source/gjs' /bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -DXP_UNIX -DJS_THREADSAFE -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0 -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8 -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/nspr -I/usr/include/nspr -DGJS_TOP_SRCDIR=\".\" -DGJS_JS_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gjs-1.0\" -DGJS_NATIVE_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gjs-1.0\" -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -g -O2 -MT libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgjs_la-jsapi-private.Tpo -c -o libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo test -f 'gjs/jsapi-private.cpp' || echo './'gjs/jsapi-private.cpp libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -DXP_UNIX -DJS_THREADSAFE -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0 -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8 -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/nspr -I/usr/include/nspr -DGJS_TOP_SRCDIR=\".\" -DGJS_JS_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gjs-1.0\" -DGJS_NATIVE_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gjs-1.0\" -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -g -O2 -MT libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgjs_la-jsapi-private.Tpo -c gjs/jsapi-private.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libgjs_la-jsapi-private.o cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wnested-externs" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wmissing-prototypes" is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++ In file included from gjs/jsapi-private.cpp:30: gjs/jsapi-util.h:28: warning: #warning Include <gjs/gjs.h> instead of <gjs/jsapi-util.h> In file included from gjs/context-jsapi.h:27, from gjs/jsapi-private.cpp:32: ./gjs/context.h:28: warning: #warning Include <gjs/gjs.h> instead of <gjs/context.h> In file included from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/jsatom.h:53, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/jscntxt.h:49, from gjs/jsapi-private.cpp:35: /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/jslock.h:47: fatal error: pratom.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[1]: * [libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dean/gnome-shell/source/gjs' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of gjs: ########## Error running make * [15/21]

looks like a "new" patch is in order?  I can pass that error & finish the build & it will run OK....

Ctrl+C in a terminal is a interrupt signal to kill the current task.

NightwishFan said: Ctrl+C in a terminal is a interrupt signal to kill the current task.

Well, thanks a bunch.

That will be handy the next time I screw up and give the wrong command when update/upgrading in chroot instead of killing the terminal.

That is one handy little thing to know.

ranch hand said: Well, thanks a bunch.

That will be handy the next time I screw up and give the wrong command when update/upgrading in chroot instead of killing the terminal.

Actually Ctrl+C does not kill the terminal. It kills the application started in the terminal. So, if you start gnome-shell in terminal (gnome-shell --replace), you can quit GS by hitting Ctrl+C in terminal.

Yes, I understood that. It is just great.

Had a buggered command (not a great typest) and used it to get back to the proper prompt.

I can't use it with GS as I do not have GS installed. I will wait for it to settle down to a buildable state before plying with it.

tanmays said: Installed Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3. Installed Gnome-Shell 2.31.5 from the ubuntu repository.

Now GS don't load with the following message: (mutter:1766): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]

Pressing Ctrl+C crashes the Terminal.

That mutter warning is like it says. It cannot find mozilla javascript spider monkey = libmozjs.so This is the launchpad bug #576991, still unresolved.

You can workaround it though, by creating a symlink in the folder /usr/lib/ which points to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so or simply copying the libmozjs.so file into the folder /usr/lib/

ranch hand said:

...

I can't use it with GS as I do not have GS installed. I will wait for it to settle down to a buildable state before plying with it.

OK fine. You can, however, install GS directly from Mavericks official repos. It works very well now. And yet, install also the package gnome3-session. Then you can choose in the login screen (gdm) to start gnome3 (gnome-shell) or ubuntu desktop environment (gnome-panel). This is very handy, because if future updates break GS, then you can start gnome-panel instead.

The only issue is that gnome-shell does not find libmozjs.so because of the bug #576991. But I just posted an easy workaround above.

Is the repo version close to current? I know that it was way behind at one time and I assume it still is.

I am good at being wrong about these things though.

ranch hand said: Is the repo version close to current? I know that it was way behind at one time and I assume it still is.

I am good at being wrong about these things though.

You are right about GS in repo being somewhat behind. On the other hand, it is not that buggy.

Anyway, the biggest difference is that mavericks GS has been built against GTK+2.0. Well, using GTK+3.0 would break all the other gnome packages for sure. As of today there are etc.

• gnome-shell_2.31.5-2ubuntu1
• gjs_0.71-1ubuntu1 with ligjs0a
• gobject introspection v. 0.9.3-0ubuntu4 with libgirepository1.0-1
• mutter_2.31.5-0ubuntu3.1
• clutter-1.0_1.2.12-0ubuntu8

magcius said: Merk42: mind adding these instructions to the OP, along with fixing your formatting?

What formatting needs to be fixed?

Harry33 said: That mutter warning is like it says. It cannot find mozilla javascript spider monkey = libmozjs.so

This is the launchpad bug #576991, still unresolved.

You can workaround it though, by creating a symlink in the folder /usr/lib/ which points to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so or simply copying the libmozjs.so file into the folder /usr/lib/

Thanks.

It worked flawlessly.

Now using it as default for my desktop.

However I could not type anything in the Alt+F2 window and Application Search Box !!!

SOLVED: Seems like an iBus problem. Turning off iBus worked.

Here is a screenshot of my Gnome-shell desktop:

It uses Elementary theme by Sean W

Link : http://half-left.deviantart.com/#/d2vktxy

Thanks for the screen shot. Looks an awful lot better than the last time I had it on here.

That theme isn't too bad either. I do not go for the gray but I think even I could change that to some thing I liked better.

Not to hot on the whole GS thing at all but the ease of modifying or changing a theme is just great.

Maybe not formatting, but perhaps the directions could be updated to include all the patching?

I can't wait to see this in action:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/OverviewWindowDND

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/

Well--I've got a build running---one error that "seems" to be non-fatal, but causes a gjs non-build....`` * Checking out gjs * [15/21] git pull --rebase Current branch master is up to date. * Building gjs * [15/21] make make all-am make[1]: Entering directory /home/dean/gnome-shell/source/gjs' /bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -DXP_UNIX -DJS_THREADSAFE -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0 -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8 -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/nspr -I/usr/include/nspr -DGJS_TOP_SRCDIR=\".\" -DGJS_JS_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gjs-1.0\" -DGJS_NATIVE_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gjs-1.0\" -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -g -O2 -MT libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgjs_la-jsapi-private.Tpo -c -o libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo test -f 'gjs/jsapi-private.cpp' || echo './'gjs/jsapi-private.cpp libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -DXP_UNIX -DJS_THREADSAFE -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0 -I/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8 -I/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/nspr -I/usr/include/nspr -DGJS_TOP_SRCDIR=\".\" -DGJS_JS_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/share/gjs-1.0\" -DGJS_NATIVE_DIR=\"/home/dean/gnome-shell/install/lib64/gjs-1.0\" -Wfloat-equal -Wsign-compare -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -g -O2 -MT libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgjs_la-jsapi-private.Tpo -c gjs/jsapi-private.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libgjs_la-jsapi-private.o cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wnested-externs" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wmissing-prototypes" is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++ In file included from gjs/jsapi-private.cpp:30: gjs/jsapi-util.h:28: warning: #warning Include <gjs/gjs.h> instead of <gjs/jsapi-util.h> In file included from gjs/context-jsapi.h:27, from gjs/jsapi-private.cpp:32: ./gjs/context.h:28: warning: #warning Include <gjs/gjs.h> instead of <gjs/context.h> In file included from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/jsatom.h:53, from /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/jscntxt.h:49, from gjs/jsapi-private.cpp:35: /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/jslock.h:47: fatal error: pratom.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[1]: * [libgjs_la-jsapi-private.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dean/gnome-shell/source/gjs' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of gjs: ########## Error running make * [15/21]

#ifndef jslock_h__
#define jslock_h__

#include "jstypes.h"
#include "jsprvtd.h"    /* for JSScope, etc. */
#include "jspubtd.h"    /* for JSRuntime, etc. */

#ifdef JS_THREADSAFE
# include "pratom.h"
# include "prlock.h"
# include "prcvar.h"
# include "prthread.h"
#endif

Ideas anyone?

I'm trying to jhbuild GS, but am having some problems. I previously used the PPA version on my Lucid machine with no issues until this afternoon, when it just wouldn't load. I hadn't even run an upgrade or anything.

Regardless, I ran ppa-purge on the Ricotz repo, thinking that would downgrade all the important packages. Then, I followed the instructions on the GNOME website for GS. It stuck on 2/21, trying to make gobject-introspection. Doing some research, I found it might be caused by non-downgraded packages. When I fired-up Synaptic and searched for versions containing "ricotz," imagine my surprise at finding all the following packages were still the PPA version: gconf-defaults-service, gconf2, gconf2-common, gobject-introspection, gtk2-engines-pixbuf, libatk1.0-0, libatk1.0-data, libatk1.0-dev, libclutter1.0-0, libdconf0, libgail-common, libgail18, libgconf2-4, libgconf2-dev, libgirepository1.0-0, libglib2.0-0, libglib2.0-bin, libglib2.0-data, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-0, libgtk2.0-bin, libgtk2.0-common, libgtk2.0-dev, libjson-glib-1.0-0, libmutter-private0, libpango1.0-0, libpango1.0-common, libpango1.0-dev, libwnck-common, libwnck-dev, libwnck22, mutter, mutter-common.

So, I began to mark each of them for downgrade, but when I got to gconf2-common, it wanted to--basically--remove every damn package.

What's the deal? How can I downgrade those packages without doing a complete reinstall and fix my system so I can jhbuild?

You will need to do a PPA purge---I got PPA-Purge from the Xorg-edgers PPA, but the purge works for any PPA--Info: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

You can add the edgers PPA to your source list, just get PPA-purge & then un-enable edgers again....explanation on using purge is in edgers info.....

EDIT: Looks like you can get purge from the swat PPA also--safer PPA to use & easier to disable.... https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates You still need to read the purge usage in the edgers PPA....

I have built it finally after adding those patches, but its REALLY slow.

According to gnome people you need to do this, in order to get rid of the SLOWNESS:

cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/; git revert 0905940ef84cc4943873a4615eb495a0a103c942; jhbuild build -n

moore.bryan said:

... When I fired-up Synaptic and searched for versions containing "ricotz," imagine my surprise at finding all the following packages were still the PPA version: gconf-defaults-service, gconf2, gconf2-common, gobject-introspection, gtk2-engines-pixbuf, libatk1.0-0, libatk1.0-data, libatk1.0-dev, libclutter1.0-0, libdconf0, libgail-common, libgail18, libgconf2-4, libgconf2-dev, libgirepository1.0-0, libglib2.0-0, libglib2.0-bin, libglib2.0-data, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-0, libgtk2.0-bin, libgtk2.0-common, libgtk2.0-dev, libjson-glib-1.0-0, libmutter-private0, libpango1.0-0, libpango1.0-common, libpango1.0-dev, libwnck-common, libwnck-dev, libwnck22, mutter, mutter-common.

So, I began to mark each of them for downgrade, but when I got to gconf2-common, it wanted to--basically--remove every damn package.

What's the deal? How can I downgrade those packages without doing a complete reinstall and fix my system so I can jhbuild?

If ppa-purge does not work and the packages you listed are in the filesystem of lucid, here is what you can do to downgrade the packages you cannot remove (like gtk2-0 and gconf).

First start lucid (the gnome-panel session, ubuntu desktop edition). Download from launchpad the newest official packages. You can search from here (64-bit): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64

To downgrade gtk2.0 (2.20.1-0ubuntu2), download all six packages:

• gir1.0-gtk-2.0
• gtk2-engines-pixbuf
• ligail18
• libgtk2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-bin
• libgtk2.0-common

To downgrade gconf (2.28.1-0ubuntu1), download all five packages:

• gconf-defaults-service
• gconf2
• gconf2-common
• gir1.0-gconf-2.0
• libgconf2-4

Then in terminal, use dpkg and downgrade all dependant packages at the same time (use the full package name):

sudo dpkg -i gconf-defaults-service_2.28.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb package2 ...

You see synaptic cannot resolve the dependencies when multiple packages are concerned.

Hi there,

If that helps somebody, GS compiles as of today 2010/08/22 on an up-to-date Maverick. I followed http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#Building , plus:

sudo apt-get install autopoint liborbit2-dev

• jhbuild autoinstalls lots of packages but seems to miss two, so ```

[*]apply libsrvg patch #626605 mentioned on [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9724017](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9724017)
[/LIST]
As mentioned before in this post, don't use any PPA, it won't work, will kill three kittens and will screw your packages state; use jhbuild.

autocrosser said: You will need to do a PPA purge---I got PPA-Purge from the Xorg-edgers PPA, but the purge works for any PPA--Info: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

You can add the edgers PPA to your source list, just get PPA-purge & then un-enable edgers again....explanation on using purge is in edgers info.....

EDIT: Looks like you can get purge from the swat PPA also--safer PPA to use & easier to disable.... https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates You still need to read the purge usage in the edgers PPA....

Harry33 said: If ppa-purge does not work and the packages you listed are in the filesystem of lucid, here is what you can do to downgrade the packages you cannot remove (like gtk2-0 and gconf).

First start lucid (the gnome-panel session, ubuntu desktop edition). Download from launchpad the newest official packages. You can search from here (64-bit): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64

To downgrade gtk2.0 (2.20.1-0ubuntu2), download all six packages:

• gir1.0-gtk-2.0
• gtk2-engines-pixbuf
• ligail18
• libgtk2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-bin
• libgtk2.0-common

To downgrade gconf (2.28.1-0ubuntu1), download all five packages:

• gconf-defaults-service
• gconf2
• gconf2-common
• gir1.0-gconf-2.0
• libgconf2-4

Then in terminal, use dpkg and downgrade all dependant packages at the same time (use the full package name):

sudo dpkg -i gconf-defaults-service_2.28.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb package2 ...

You see synaptic cannot resolve the dependencies when multiple packages are concerned.

Thanks, guys, but my system was so borked I had to do a clean install of everything... trying to compile now.

Thanks, again...

moore.bryan said: Thanks, guys, but my system was so borked I had to do a clean install of everything... trying to compile now.

Thanks, again...

sometimes fresh start is not a bad idea. =)

ktp said: sometimes fresh start is not a bad idea. =)

Sage advice!

Now, I'm having a problem applying patches... I tried to curl git-bz, but I get this:

bash: /usr/lib/git-core/git-bz: Permission denied

Huh?

EDIT

Never mind, I just manually installed and--I think--I applied the patch. We'll see.

I'm getting the dconf error now... and I didn't see a "fix" in this thread; rather, it seemed to just "go away" for anyone. Any ideas?

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bryan/gnome-shell/source/dconf/gsettings'
  CC     dconfsettingsbackend.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
dconfsettingsbackend.c: In function ‘dconf_settings_backend_get_bus’:
dconfsettingsbackend.c:384: error: passing argument 2 of ‘g_dbus_connection_add_filter’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/bryan/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0/gio/gdbusconnection.h:494: note: expected ‘GDBusMessageFilterFunction’ but argument is of type ‘gboolean (*)(struct GDBusConnection *, struct GDBusMessage *, gboolean,  void *)’
dconfsettingsbackend.c:403: error: passing argument 2 of ‘g_dbus_connection_add_filter’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/bryan/gnome-shell/install/include/glib-2.0/gio/gdbusconnection.h:494: note: expected ‘GDBusMessageFilterFunction’ but argument is of type ‘gboolean (*)(struct GDBusConnection *, struct GDBusMessage *, gboolean,  void *)’
make[1]: *** [dconfsettingsbackend.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bryan/gnome-shell/source/dconf/gsettings'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of dconf: ########## Error running make   *** [18/21]

I'm getting the dconf error too. I find that ignoring it and going to the next module then goes to completion, and the resulting GS seems to work normally.

sgage said: I'm getting the dconf error too. I find that ignoring it and going to the next module then goes to completion, and the resulting GS seems to work normally.

I'm trying that now... wonder why the error is there for some of us and not others. Are you, by any chance, running Maverick or Lucid?

I am running Maverick. I compiled yesterday with no dconf error, so go figure! Still need that librsvg patch, though...

sgage said: I am running Maverick. I compiled yesterday with no dconf error, so go figure! Still need that librsvg patch, though...

I haven't even tried building on my Maverick install, yet. And now I'm getting the gnome-shell build error on 20/21 that seems to have gone away for everyone but me...

Just over two-and-one-half hours later and everything compiled fine, save for the dconf errors, but it won't start:

bryan@blue-asus:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
Starting dconf-service... ** Message: Attempting to migrate ~/.config/dconf to ~/.config/dconf/user
** Message: Successful.
 started
Failed to start shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gnome-shell", line 768, in <module>
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 320, in run_shell
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 268, in start_shell
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 193, in _get_glx_extensions
    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
bryan@blue-asus:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
bryan@blue-asus:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!

Ideas?

* Building libgee * [17/21] make cd . && /bin/bash /home/tony/gnome-shell/source/libgee/missing --run automake-1.11 --gnu gee/Makefile.am:85: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Makefile.am:3: NULL multiply defined in condition TRUE ... Makefile.decl:11: ... NULL' previously defined here Makefile.am:1: Makefile.decl' included from here make: * [Makefile.in] Error 1 * Error during phase build of libgee: ########## Error running make *** [17/21]

what should i do here? please help. thanks.

moore.bryan said: Just over two-and-one-half hours later and everything compiled fine, save for the dconf errors, but it won't start:

bryan@blue-asus:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
Starting dconf-service... ** Message: Attempting to migrate ~/.config/dconf to ~/.config/dconf/user
** Message: Successful.
 started
Failed to start shell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gnome-shell", line 768, in <module>
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 320, in run_shell
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 268, in start_shell
    
  File "./gnome-shell", line 193, in _get_glx_extensions
    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
bryan@blue-asus:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!
bryan@blue-asus:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!

Hmmm---what video driver are you using?

I am using the Maverik Alpha 3 Repo Gnome Shell since 3 days. It works fine and no crashes/restarts till date.

The GS version is 2.31.5

What is the version of recent GS available on git?

The mockups at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ looks quite promising. I am really excited about Gnome 3

tanmays said: The mockups at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ looks quite promising. I am really excited about Gnome 3

I wonder what happens if too many icons are on the left sidebar. Will it shrink or what? I would love to see unity launcher integrated into gnome shell but I can't imagine how.

autocrosser said: Hmmm---what video driver are you using?

i915, xorg-video-intel.

@autocrosser: Your train of thinking got me thinking, so I purged any and all xorg-video-* that weren't my Intel one, started my GS build from scratch, and... voila, it works. I still get the same error I mentioned above, but it seems to no longer be fatal.

Oh, and for the record, I think I may be in-love with GS; I found myself hating the "default" desktop.

EDIT

Does anyone else out there have GS crap-out on them randomly and then come-back?

tanmays said: Same happened to me previously. Typing in the address bar of chromium always crashed GS.

Any fix to this?

frustphil said: I wonder what happens if too many icons are on the left sidebar. Will it shrink or what? I would love to see unity launcher integrated into gnome shell but I can't imagine how.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

moore.bryan said: Any fix to this?

The repo version of Maverick works fine... the build version gave me that error.

tanmays said: The repo version of Maverick works fine... the build version gave me that error.

Sorry, I was specifically asking about my build on my Lucid install... besides, I thought we "weren't supposed" to use the Maverick repo version because it was busted; is it working again?

I just tried the Maverick repo version, and it works fine, plus it's much snappier than my compiled version. Not sure how old a version it is, but it seems a lot more recent than the ancient Lucid version.

sgage said: I just tried the Maverick repo version, and it works fine, plus it's much snappier than my compiled version. Not sure how old a version it is, but it seems a lot more recent than the ancient Lucid version.

About Mavericks package

gnome-shell (2.31.5-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

* Merge from debian experimental. Remaining changes: - debian/patches/04_workaround_libmozjs_build.patch: + workaround build issues due to libmozjs not being installed as a lib * Drop debian/patches/01_favorite_apps.diff: Keep firefox as default browser

-- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200

http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/gnome-shell

Thanks for the info, plun, and the reminder on how to find info about packages.

This may be an academic question, but can someone explain the logic of jhbuild using /home/<user> instead of putting GS into /opt? I try to keep my /home tidy and building GS leaves "junk" all over the place. Is it safe to delete those dirs after building?

As this is a testing version of GS it makes sense to have those files where you have permission to do as you please with them.

ranch hand said: As this is a testing version of GS it makes sense to have those files where you have permission to do as you please with them.

That makes sense, but I know Ubuntu used to (at least, I remember it with Warty) use /opt for that. What's the purpose of /opt then?

If you are installing a stable app /opt makes sense, you probably do not need to mess with the files at all.

The default maverick gnome-shell works fine for me except the Search box in Activities doesn't work, I get errors in console:

mojo@mojo:~/Sites/spree-skat*****$ gnome-shell --replace
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      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Aug 25 2010 08:39:21 GMT+1000 (EST)
      JS LOG: Failed to acquire org.freedesktop.Notifications; trying again
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: TypeError: this._gdm.list_users is not a function
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '70'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/statusMenu.js'
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = 'this._gdm.list_users is not a function'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '([object _private_Gdm_UserManager],[object _private_Gdm_User])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/statusMenu.js:70
([object _private_Gdm_UserManager],[object _private_Gdm_User])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:110
Error("Chained exception")@:0
("Chained exception")@gjs_throw:0
'
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: TypeError: this._gdm.list_users is not a function
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '70'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/statusMenu.js'
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = 'this._gdm.list_users is not a function'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '([object _private_Gdm_UserManager])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/statusMenu.js:70
([object _private_Gdm_UserManager])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:110
Error("Chained exception")@:0
("Chained exception")@gjs_throw:0
'
Error loading document: Error opening file: No such file or directory
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      JS LOG: Command line: /usr/bin/gjs-console
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Is it just me or anyone having the same issue?

I still am unable to launch the shell in Maverick. I have this bug occur.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/623548

mixint27 said: * Building libgee * [17/21]

make cd . && /bin/bash /home/tony/gnome-shell/source/libgee/missing --run automake-1.11 --gnu gee/Makefile.am:85: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Makefile.am:3: NULL multiply defined in condition TRUE ... Makefile.decl:11: ... NULL' previously defined here Makefile.am:1: Makefile.decl' included from here make: * [Makefile.in] Error 1 * Error during phase build of libgee: ########## Error running make *** [17/21]

what should i do here? please help. thanks.

bump!

I *just* rebuilt without *any* errors and without using the librsvg patch. Is it too soon to hope!? ;-)

NightwishFan said: I still am unable to launch the shell in Maverick. I have this bug occur.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/623548

Just add a symlink and it works

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so  /usr/lib/

Thanks Plun!

Also:

The librsvg theme engine uses now-gone GTK+ drawing functions so doesn't compile with GTK+ 3. Since we don't need the theme engine anyways, skip bulding it.

moore.bryan said: I *just* rebuilt without *any* errors and without using the librsvg patch. Is it too soon to hope!?

;-)

Hey, me too! Compiled without a hitch, and runs fine. Though it still seems slow. the place where this mostly bothers me is hitting the magic corner - unless the response to hitting the hot corner is nearly instantaneous, my work flow in GS isn't really comfortable.

The (Maverick) repo version seems much snappier to me.

moore.bryan said: That makes sense, but I know Ubuntu used to (at least, I remember it with Warty) use /opt for that. What's the purpose of /opt then?

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

If you had multiple users on your box that wanted to try GS, then '/opt/*packagename*/' or /usr/local/' would be the place to put them. If you are the only user on your box that will be using GS, it seems like a waste of time to install it to a location outside of your home directory.

Later, Seeker

sgage said: Hey, me too! Compiled without a hitch, and runs fine. Though it still seems slow. the place where this mostly bothers me is hitting the magic corner - unless the response to hitting the hot corner is nearly instantaneous, my work flow in GS isn't really comfortable.

The (Maverick) repo version seems much snappier to me. I still need to install on my Maverick install... looking forward to it now!

seeker5528 said: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

If you had multiple users on your box that wanted to try GS, then '/opt/*packagename*/' or /usr/local/' would be the place to put them. If you are the only user on your box that will be using GS, it seems like a waste of time to install it to a location outside of your home directory.

Later, Seeker Do "we" (whomever that is) assume Ubuntu is only being set-up for one user or do the GNOME developers only suggest to build GNOME Shell for testing purposes? I just find it strange everything happens in /home.

Now, I've run into a new problem and need to file a bug report... when I go to the overview, it fails to show my desktop background and, instead, goes all white. When I come back out of overview, everything's fine, though. Strange...

moore.bryan said: I still need to install on my Maverick install... looking forward to it now!

Do "we" (whomever that is) assume Ubuntu is only being set-up for one user or do the GNOME developers only suggest to build GNOME Shell for testing purposes? I just find it strange everything happens in /home.

Now, I've run into a new problem and need to file a bug report... when I go to the overview, it fails to show my desktop background and, instead, goes all white. When I come back out of overview, everything's fine, though. Strange...

When you are testing GS the "assumed" mode is one user. so installing to /home is fine. When it is released for real, I would say that it will be installed in the usual places......running it from /home right now makes it easier to fix when it b0rks up......

Reports need to goto Gnome bugzilla, so you will need to make a account there & look at reports.......

autocrosser said: When you are testing GS the "assumed" mode is one user. so installing to /home is fine. When it is released for real, I would say that it will be installed in the usual places......running it from /home right now makes it easier to fix when it b0rks up......

I guess that was my original point: how's /home any easier than /opt? I was always under the impression /opt was for self-installed programs; wrong for me to assume that.

Reports need to goto Gnome bugzilla, so you will need to make a account there & look at reports.......

Already have an account and reported bug... thanks, though.

moore.bryan said: I guess that was my original point: how's /home any easier than /opt? I was always under the impression /opt was for self-installed programs; wrong for me to assume that.

Already have an account and reported bug... thanks, though. In your home directory you do not need to be root. It is easier to fix.

Now that you have the ability to build the bugger I may try it.

Just have to ask about this. I installed the repo version on one of my throw away OS' (10.10). It does not work at all. Just freezes the box solid when I attempt to switch to it. Is the build going to work any better in with any likely hood?

I would think that although the repo version may be behind it should have some possibility that it works. Hopefully more than the build would.

The Maverick repo version of GS is quite recent, and works fine on my machine, and is faster than the locally compiled version.

This is a real drag then as I really wanted to get this up and compare it to Uninty.

Can't get either to work. Well Unity works better. Box does not freeze solid. It flashes from white screen to wallpaper and back very fast. TTy works to get out.

Oh well, just have to wait. They are installed. Just a matter of waiting until an update fixes them.

moore.bryan said: Do "we" (whomever that is) assume Ubuntu is only being set-up for one user or do the GNOME developers only suggest to build GNOME Shell for testing purposes?

There would be some exceptions due to the way some things work, but generally speaking I would expect just about any developer to only suggest building something that is in heavy development for testing purposes only.

Also generally speaking, it should be suggested that anything that you are not quite sure about should be installed in your home directory instead of a system wide location.

This may not do heaps for your own personal security and data protection, but should minimize the ability of the software in question to act on locations that you as a user don't have direct access to.

If you had a directory in your home directory named 'test' with 'test/bin/' for executables, then you could create a '.xprofile' file in your home directory with a line like...

export PATH="~/test/bin/:$PATH"

if you want the executables to be in your path when you log in to an X session.

Later, Seeker

moore.bryan said: I guess that was my original point: how's /home any easier than /opt? I was always under the impression /opt was for self-installed programs; wrong for me to assume that.

If you know what you are doing then /home and /opt are same...just a folder. But in general, opt is for non-default software installs, like you said.

For this, I like to think this is something you are developing and/or "playing around" so I would like to think of it as just keeping things in the "bin" directory to build, run, and test code as I develop. Now this "bin" can be whatever you want it to be and is easy for you.

ktp said: For this, I like to think this is something you are developing and/or "playing around"

I think that's the point I was making... I was always under the impression that was what /opt was for. Mea culpa. Thanks for indulging me, guys; we can get back to the real work of getting the kinks out of GS! :-)

Yes---fun stuff---I just like going in & modding the files without mucking around with root every time--simpler=better/easier......

Also, if I need to move to my backup install--I can just grab files & move them.....I do the same with my BOINC install--much easier than mucking with stuff in /opt........

ranch hand said: This is a real drag then as I really wanted to get this up and compare it to Uninty.

Can't get either to work. Well Unity works better. Box does not freeze solid. It flashes from white screen to wallpaper and back very fast. TTy works to get out.

Oh well, just have to wait. They are installed. Just a matter of waiting until an update fixes them.

Ranch hand,

What exactly you mean by "freeze solid". Could you try to start GS in terminal: gnome-shell --replace and then post here the error messages.

Maverick's GS does really work well now (in a fully updated maverick). But you have to tell gnome-shell where the file libmozjs.so is located. That is why you have to make a symlink in the folder /usr/lib/

Like this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so /usr/lib/

Hii I am trying to use gnome-shell on my lucid.I installed it using this:- sudo apt-get install gnome-shell However when i run it using gnome-shell --replace. I get the following error at the terminal.. please help [HTML] Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running. WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug! WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug! [/HTML]

I'm using the repo (not ppa) version of GS. If I have 2 workspaces and drag Thunderbird to one, and Firefox to the other, they both end up being started in the same workspace. Rather than opening in the workspace it was dragged to, it's opening in the active workspace. Does this still happen in the latest version too, or should it be reported as a bug?

EDIT: This has been reported: bug 604514

Harry33 said: Ranch hand,

What exactly you mean by "freeze solid". Could you try to start GS in terminal: gnome-shell --replace and then post here the error messages.

Maverick's GS does really work well now (in a fully updated maverick). But you have to tell gnome-shell where the file libmozjs.so is located. That is why you have to make a symlink in the folder /usr/lib/

Like this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so /usr/lib/ I would be most happy to post that information if I had it.

When I boot to the normal Ubuntu desktop and run "gnome-shell --replace" the terminal disappears (although the workspace switchers still shows it) and the only thing that will work is to unplug my box to get out. Tty does not work. Alt + SysRq + b does not work.

This is what I would call a total freeze.

Are you saying that GS will not run without xulrunner? Or just Mozilla stuff will not run under GS without that fix?

I admit that I have not done that and was over on that install today and all I did was check that the regular Ubuntu ran with the newest updates. Never checked GS (or Unity) as none of the upgrades seemed to have anything to do with them. Was figuring on seeing about those things this evening when checking the upgrades from then.

ranch hand said:

... Are you saying that GS will not run without xulrunner? Or just Mozilla stuff will not run under GS without that fix? ...

Yes, GS package depends on xulrunner. And to be more specific, it is the package libgjs0a, that is depending on xulrunner. You cannot install it without xulrunner.

The file libmozjs.so is Mozilla's javascript spidermonkey and GS wont run without it. You see, most if not all the settings in GS are written in javascript.

Harry33 said: Yes, GS package depends on xulrunner.

And to be more specific, it is the package libgjs0a, that is depending on xulrunner. You cannot install it without xulrunner.

The file libmozjs.so is Mozilla's javascript spidermonkey and GS wont run without it. You see, most if not all the settings in GS are written in javascript. Of coarse. I should have thought of that. I will be over there this evening and will make that link.

I will then give it another whack. Might even work.

I will then report on my success.

Well that really helped.

Booted to the OS with the repo version of GS installed. Ran;

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so /usr/lib/

This allowed GS to start before my system froze.

Got the top panel and my wallpaper. Cursor would move. Nothing worked using the mouse.

Tty2 would not allow me to "startx" as program startx not installed. Rebooted to gnome desktop and here I am.

I am using the edgers drivers on this OS and nothing seems to work as far as GS is concerned.

At least now it works as well as Unity.

Improvement is just a matter of time I am sure. Will continue to monitor.

Have not been able to use GS since 2 weeks before 10.04-testing ended. I have no idea how to file a bug on this as I have no idea what the problem is.

ranch hand said:

... Tty2 would not allow me to "startx" as program startx not installed. Rebooted to gnome desktop and here I am.

I am using the edgers drivers on this OS and nothing seems to work as far as GS is concerned.

At least now it works as well as Unity.

Improvement is just a matter of time I am sure. Will continue to monitor.

Have not been able to use GS since 2 weeks before 10.04-testing ended. I have no idea how to file a bug on this as I have no idea what the problem is.

Hi Ranch hand,

Well I am afraid waiting for new updates may not help here. Maverick's GS has been in working order for ~3 weeks now. You have something else wrong there that can be corrected. I also use xorg-edgers repo, but nothing else, just official maverick with all updates.

It might help if I can have more info on your setup. I assume it is a Maverick with edgers PPA. So you have xserver-xorg-core_1.9.0+git20100821 and gnome-shell_2.31.5-2ubuntu1.

But what other repos affecting this? You don't have Rico's PPA? Which graphics card you have? What drivers you use?

The edgers ppa is the only one. The only other thing I add is medibuntu.

I think all the relevant specs for my box are in my sig.

It could just be my video card. The bugger is poorly supported all around. The OSS drivers have always been much better than the ATI drivers and still are.

Under 10.04(testing) I had to have the edgers drivers to get GS to work when I installed it in that cycle. Then the default drivers caught up and GS worked with those. About 2 weeks before 10.04 was released GS (build variety) refused to work and I needed the partition for ISO testing and never reinstalled it.

Have not been able to get it to work in 10.10 at all. Beats me.

Can't get Unity to work either although it seems to be slightly better without the edgers drivers (doesn't work either way but with out those drivers tty works).

I installed the version from the repository last night and it works quite well almost. I use two user accounts, when I logged into the other account to do some work, then logged back into the first account the system locked up so hard I had to use the reset button to reboot.

Just installed the version from the repo on my Maverick partition, it not only didn't work but also kicked me out to the GDM login. I remember back in Karmic when I could use gnome-shell flawlessly. I'll have to try the version from the ppa to see if I get better results.

Madspyman said: Just installed the version from the repo on my Maverick partition, it not only didn't work but also kicked me out to the GDM login. I remember back in Karmic when I could use gnome-shell flawlessly. I'll have to try the version from the ppa to see if I get better results.

Why not just build from source?

Merk42 said: Why not just build from source?

I don't know about Madspyman, but I have problems downloading from the git repository, I tried the other day and after 4 hours it was still sitting a 0%.

Other than a bug when switching users gnome-shell from the repositories works quite well for me.

Merk42 said: Why not just build from source?

Thats usually what I end up doing, didn't help in Lucid when I tried it though, I haven't been able to get shell working properly since Karmic. Sometimes installing fglrx helps not for long though, and currently that's not an option in Maverick.

ranch hand said: The edgers ppa is the only one. The only other thing I add is medibuntu.

I think all the relevant specs for my box are in my sig.

It could just be my video card. The bugger is poorly supported all around. The OSS drivers have always been much better than the ATI drivers and still are.

Under 10.04(testing) I had to have the edgers drivers to get GS to work when I installed it in that cycle. Then the default drivers caught up and GS worked with those. About 2 weeks before 10.04 was released GS (build variety) refused to work and I needed the partition for ISO testing and never reinstalled it.

Have not been able to get it to work in 10.10 at all. Beats me.

Can't get Unity to work either although it seems to be slightly better without the edgers drivers (doesn't work either way but with out those drivers tty works).

Hi Ranch hand,

I just found this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/626743

It is about xserver-xorg-video-ati driver being incompatible with GS window manager (mutter). You might see this as your system freezes, perhaps mutter dies.

Yup, I believe that is the problem. I have a similar problem with Unity that has this same basis.

Mutter will, I am sure, come around soon, at least for Unity (I think they use a slightly different version) because of the priority Unity has in this release.

The upcoming ISO testing will see the OS that I have GS on reinstalled. I have fooled with it too much to trust the results. I will reinstall GS and continue to see if it works.

I may fool with my bios and see if switching to the integrated Intel video controller works better with both of them. I think some folks are having some difficulty with them with Intel too.

I would REALLY like to be able to compare the two.

The screen shots I have seen make it look like some of my biggest problems with GS have seen some real improvement. Oh well, just need to wait.

Harry33 said: Hi Ranch hand,

I just found this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/626743

It is about xserver-xorg-video-ati driver being incompatible with GS window manager (mutter). You might see this as your system freezes, perhaps mutter dies.

This would explain my problem as well with both shell and unity.

Am I the only one getting this:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628381

Hi,

Trying to get Gnome Shell up and running (in Maverick, but that's all fine).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo apt-get gnome3-session

If I now type

sudo gnome-shell --replace

Then I get the (pretty cool!) gnome 3 desktop environment. But, I don't want to type gnome-shell --replace, I want to log into gnome shell. Hence I installed gnome3-session.

So the suggestion from a tutorial is to uninstall gnome-session, and install gnome3-session.

Q1: sudo apt-get remove gnome-session-* uninstalls ubuntu-desktop. Is that what I should do? sudo apt-get install gnome3-session does not reinstall ubuntu-desktop. Don't I still need ubuntu-desktop? I've tried what the tutorial proposed anyway, ending up with the probem that X is not starting.

Now, as a workaround, I can add "sudo gnome-shell --replace" as a startup script, but that's a bit lame. I just want to replace gnome2 with gnome3 (gnome shell).

Q2: Different website claims that I can change the session manager in System->Pref->desktop. I don't have that application in Maverick. Any other way available?

Either the answer to Q1 or Q2 might help me getting gnome3 up and running.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Bas

you might already find a thread about gnome-shell into maverick subforum

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476241

looks like dependencies aren't set properly.

sudo apt-get remove gnome-session-* also removes gdm and ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get install gnome3-session does not install gdm.

Reinstalled gdm after installing gnome3-session

sudo apt-get install gnome3-session
sudo apt-get install gdm

gdm start gave an error, so just ran sudo reboot.

After that, I logged right into gnome-shell.

Is this supposed to be the "how-to-install-gnome-shell"?

It works now, so no problem, but still I have the feeling I made life a bit harder then necessary.

Thanks all.

Bas

moved to maverick forum

Ricotz ppa is broken for the moment.

Use the gnome-shell package within Mavericks repo !!

Works just fine....

(Ubuntu Mozilla Daily PPA breaks Mavericks gnome-shell, gjs trouble)

Threads merged.

bprins said: looks like dependencies aren't set properly.

sudo apt-get remove gnome-session-* also removes gdm and ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get install gnome3-session does not install gdm.

Reinstalled gdm after installing gnome3-session

sudo apt-get install gnome3-session
sudo apt-get install gdm

After that, I logged right into gnome-shell.

Is this supposed to be the "how-to-install-gnome-shell"?

It works now, so no problem, but still I have the feeling I made life a bit harder then necessary.

Thanks all.

Bas

Bprins,

No, you should not remove gnome-session-* at all. Only install gnome3-session and gnome-shell packages with all the dependencies they bring about.

Then, reboot and from login screen of gdm choose session "Gnome3" instead of "Ubuntu Desktop Edition." Then the next time you reboot you will be automatically logged into gnome3 session. Should you want to go back to gnome-panel (Ubuntu Desktop Edition), then again, choose that one from the login screen.

Harry

plun said: Ricotz ppa is broken for the moment.

Use the gnome-shell package within Mavericks repo !!

Works just fine....

(Ubuntu Mozilla Daily PPA breaks Mavericks gnome-shell, gjs trouble)

That is correct. Rico's PPA "Gnome Shell Testing" has been broken for weeks now. Several packages missing. Rico has gathered the new GS packages in his PPA "Staging". But the advice is not to use it. Anyway, it would install GTK+3.0 (2.90.6) into your system with awkward consequences.

Hello Folks,

I'm back in the fray of trying to compile GS. Full disclosure: I am running Lucid these days.

Anyway, the problem is pango:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 44, in <module> sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv)) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 325, in scanner_main main.transform() File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/maintransformer.py", line 60, in transform self._namespace.walk(self._pass_type_resolution) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/ast.py", line 405, in walk node.walk(callback, []) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/ast.py", line 484, in walk res = callback(self, chain) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/maintransformer.py", line 649, in _pass_type_resolution self._transformer.resolve_type(field.type) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/transformer.py", line 830, in resolve_type return self.resolve_type(typeval.element_type) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/transformer.py", line 838, in resolve_type return self._resolve_type_from_ctype(typeval) File "/home/sgage/gnome-shell/install/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/transformer.py", line 803, in _resolve_type_from_ctype raise TypeResolutionException(e) giscanner.transformer.TypeResolutionException: Unknown namespace for identifier 'ParenStackEntry' make[4]: * [Pango-1.0.gir] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/pango/pango' make[3]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/pango/pango' make[2]: * [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/pango/pango' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/sgage/gnome-shell/source/pango' make: * [all] Error 2 * Error during phase build of pango: ########## Error running make *** [5/21]

Anyone else having this one? Any ideas on how to get through it?

TIA...

Not getting that error, but this one:

/home/david/gnome-shell/install/share/gir-1.0/Pango-1.0.gir: Incompatible version 1.1 (supported: 1.2)
make[4]: *** [Gdk-3.0.gir] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gtk3: ########## Error running make   *** [8/21]

Seems like pango is out of date or the version hasn't been updated?

Edit:

Getting the same for clutter, mutter and gnome-shell too

Same error here, I will inspect it later.

davideotape said: Not getting that error, but this one:

/home/david/gnome-shell/install/share/gir-1.0/Pango-1.0.gir: Incompatible version 1.1 (supported: 1.2)
make[4]: *** [Gdk-3.0.gir] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3/gdk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of gtk3: ########## Error running make   *** [8/21]

Seems like pango is out of date or the version hasn't been updated?

Edit:

Getting the same for clutter, mutter and gnome-shell too

I'm getting the below when trying to run gnome-shell from the repos.... any advice?

demonbob@sys-desktop:~$ gnome-shell --replace
Shell killed with signal 11
demonbob@sys-desktop:~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

Try disabling Compiz before you run gnome-shell --replace.

NightwishFan said: Try disabling Compiz before you run gnome-shell --replace.

It's not running. Also set to none in appearance.

Google searches show similar issues however nothing specific. I wonder, could you check your Xorg and System logs after starting the gnome shell and tell me what (if any) error messages occur.

Only thing i see is this in syslog.

Sep  4 01:55:22 sys-desktop kernel: [15749.956793] mutter[14037]: segfault at 404 ip 008cc826 sp bf9bf6ec error 4 in libGL.so.1.2[8ca000+5000]
Sep  4 01:58:16 sys-desktop kernel: [15923.598994] mutter[14510]: segfault at 404 ip 00913826 sp bf8e559c error 4 in libGL.so.1.2[911000+5000]

Thanks. What type of card do you have? Someone had this issue using an ATI card. If you are on Intel or Nvidia Proprietary it should just work. ATI is a big question mark though.

Intel - It was working fine a few days ago. I don't know what changed.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Brand new error:

../glib/gmacros.h:32: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
make[4]: *** [gobject.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib/gobject'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib/gobject'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib/gobject'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of glib: ########## Error running make   *** [1/21]

Purge and reinstall mutter and gnome-shell. Not sure what else to say, nothing more specific is in the logs. :( Sorry I could not be of help.

davideotape said: Brand new error:

../glib/gmacros.h:32: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
make[4]: *** [gobject.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib/gobject'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib/gobject'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib/gobject'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/glib'
make: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of glib: ########## Error running make   *** [1/21]

Same thing here with a cannot-be-fresher-and-cleaner jhbuild on a just-installed Meerkat beta.

GLib should build again now, but gobject-introspection is still broken.

I am now using the Maverick Beta Repo version of Gnome-Shell. GS working perfectly for me.

Where can I find the WM Theme of GS which shows only the maximize and close button? IMO its useless to have minimize button on GS.

Is the GIT build version working perfectly now?

Yes the maverick's GS works now OK.

The Mozilla Spider Monkey problem has been fixed now:

Both gjs and gnome-shell now find libmozjs.so, there is a wrapper added for that purpose. See the fixed Launchpad bug#576991 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/576991

• gjs_0.7.1-1ubuntu2
• gnome-shell_2.31.5-2ubuntu2

:!: Those of you, who made a symlink into the folder /usr/lib/ pointing to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so, can now, and should delete that symlink. Even more important, if someone copied the libmozjs.so into the folder /usr/lib/, is to delete it; for safety reasons. :!:

Harry33 said: Yes the maverick's GS works now OK.

The Mozilla Spider Monkey problem has been fixed now:

Both gjs and gnome-shell now find libmozjs.so, there is a wrapper added for that purpose. See the fixed Launchpad bug#576991 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/576991

• gjs_0.7.1-1ubuntu2
• gnome-shell_2.31.5-2ubuntu2

:!: Those of you, who made a symlink into the folder /usr/lib/ pointing to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/libmozjs.so, can now, and should delete that symlink. Even more important, if someone copied the libmozjs.so into the folder /usr/lib/, is to delete it; for safety reasons. :!:

Yep..... now its possible to use the Ubuntu Mozilla Daily PPA and Mavericks Gnome-Shell package.

Now its just a challenge to find any joy with Gnome-Shell.....:-$

Nope, git still isn't building cleanly:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines/clearlooks'
  CC     clearlooks_rc_style.lo
  CC     clearlooks_style.lo
./src/clearlooks_style.c: In function ‘clearlooks_style_draw_box’:
./src/clearlooks_style.c:775: warning: #warning Assuming non-pulsing progress bars because there is currently no way to query them in GTK+ 3.0.
./src/clearlooks_style.c:787: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_LEFT_TO_RIGHT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:787: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./src/clearlooks_style.c:787: error: for each function it appears in.)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:788: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_RIGHT_TO_LEFT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:807: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_BOTTOM_TO_TOP’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:809: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_TOP_TO_BOTTOM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [clearlooks_style.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines/clearlooks'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of gtk-engines-3: ########## Error running make   *** [10/21]

Although the pango version issue seems to have been resolved

davideotape said: Nope, git still isn't building cleanly:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines/clearlooks'
  CC     clearlooks_rc_style.lo
  CC     clearlooks_style.lo
./src/clearlooks_style.c: In function ‘clearlooks_style_draw_box’:
./src/clearlooks_style.c:775: warning: #warning Assuming non-pulsing progress bars because there is currently no way to query them in GTK+ 3.0.
./src/clearlooks_style.c:787: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_LEFT_TO_RIGHT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:787: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./src/clearlooks_style.c:787: error: for each function it appears in.)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:788: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_RIGHT_TO_LEFT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:807: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_BOTTOM_TO_TOP’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./src/clearlooks_style.c:809: error: ‘GTK_PROGRESS_TOP_TO_BOTTOM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [clearlooks_style.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines/clearlooks'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/gnome-shell/source/gtk-engines/engines'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of gtk-engines-3: ########## Error running make   *** [10/21]

getting the same error.

I am trying gnome shell again for the first time in a while, hated it at first sight but starting to like it now so just have a couple of questions about it:

I'm very obsessive compulsive about the order of things.

1. Does anyone know any way to re-order the favourites without removing them all and then adding them in the order I want them?

If so does it cause any problems when opening the activities panel? Specifically, if the dock is on the left since that's where I normally have it.

1. Has anyone tried running a dock app like awn or docky with shell

<EDIT> Tried number 2 myself and awn works very well with no problems so far.

x-shaney-x said:

I'm very obsessive compulsive about the order of things.

1. Does anyone know any way to re-order the favourites without removing them all and then adding them in the order I want them?

How to arrange the favorites?

Yes. Arrange them in the order I want. I group my favourites together (whether using a dock, mint menu or whatever) and that's the way I like it. Also, if using the dock extension for gnome shell it also uses the favourites from the side panel and can't be re-ordered.

Has anyone managed to compile gnome-shell lately? I haven't been able to in quite some time.

I just tried this morning - got as far as clutter, which failed.

Oh well.

sgage said: Has anyone managed to compile gnome-shell lately? I haven't been able to in quite some time.

I just tried this morning - got as far as clutter, which failed.

Oh well.

Fail here, too. I tried a couple of times last week and it failed on GTK3. Seems strange that the problem doesn't seem to have been addressed at all.

whollycow said: Fail here, too. I tried a couple of times last week and it failed on GTK3. Seems strange that the problem doesn't seem to have been addressed at all.

I had the gtk3 fail last week too. It really does seem strange that nobody seems to care to make this thing compilable so we can test it. Oh well.

I have been running shell for a couple of days with only minor issues. One thing is, I couldn't help feeling something was missing and I finally realised what it is... indicators.

Anyone know how to make them show on the panel or are they just incompatible with shell (at the moment or forever)?

x-shaney-x said: I have been running shell for a couple of days with only minor issues.

One thing is, I couldn't help feeling something was missing and I finally realised what it is... indicators.

Anyone know how to make them show on the panel or are they just incompatible with shell (at the moment or forever)? Incompatible. I'm sure there will eventually be a workaround either from GNOME or Ayatana, unless Unity is secretly planned to replace the desktop as well.

Merk42 said: Incompatible.

I'm sure there will eventually be a workaround either from GNOME or Ayatana, unless Unity is secretly planned to replace the desktop as well.

But some notification-area stuff works.

E.g., to get the volume control, type Alt F2, gnome-volume-control-applet, and you're good to go. Haven't really tried anything else.

sgage said: But some notification-area stuff works.

All the notification-area stuff should work, correct? Or did the G-S devs break it in a different way than the Ubuntu devs?

It's the indicators that are not compatible.

Yea I'm getting notifications stuff - wifi, sound etc as normal just the indicators missing.

whollycow said: Fail here, too. I tried a couple of times last week and it failed on GTK3. Seems strange that the problem doesn't seem to have been addressed at all.

GTK3 is having a lot of API changes at the moment and there for breaking other things which then have to be adapted.

Built fine for me just now in Lucid, had to delete the gnome-shell and source folders in ~/. Of course once I ran it and went to the overview it broke. I could click on a window to bring it to front, but it wouldn't respond to mouse or keyboard input. Thankfully the menu in the upper right still worked so I had to click logout and wait for it to count down.

Built cleanly today on 10.10 Beta 64bit system. Been a while. :-)

jjcv said: Built cleanly today on 10.10 Beta 64bit system. Been a while. :-)

Built cleanly for me, too, on a 10.04.1 32-bit system. Everything seems to work. It seems it might be just a tad quicker than the last time I compiled, but that could be my imagination.

Current update of Maverick breaks my gnome-shell. Everything freezes now... Totally unusable :(

Currently on Maverick I am getting the following Bug.

When I first go into overlay mode everything looks OK, then I realised that some Icons were upside down (although the text was OK) and then I saw that the text was on the wrong icon!. As soon as I asked for a refresh of the Icons they became corrupt. (Only the icon, not the whole screen). Could this been a faulty theme?

Peter09 said: Currently on Maverick I am getting the following Bug.

When I first go into overlay mode everything looks OK, then I realised that some Icons were upside down (although the text was OK) and then I saw that the text was on the wrong icon!. As soon as I asked for a refresh of the Icons they became corrupt. (Only the icon, not the whole screen). Could this been a faulty theme?

Sounds more like a driver bug. What driver are you using? Do you see any corruption like that outside of gnome-shell?

This is an Upgrade to Maverick (about a week ago) The card is an ATI card but not at home at the moment so can give no more details. No other corruption that I can see.

I get no corruption using the standard desktop.

Building GS fresh on my Linux Mint Debian Install. The debian testing repo has a really old GS version. Lets hope everything goes well.

Quick question: what should I do if I get this type of error:

*** Checking out gdk-pixbuf *** [7/21]
git stash save jhbuild-stash
po/cs.po: needs merge
po/de.po: needs merge
po/gl.po: needs merge
po/he.po: needs merge
po/nl.po: needs merge
po/pt.po: needs merge
po/sl.po: needs merge
po/cs.po: needs merge
po/de.po: needs merge
po/gl.po: needs merge
po/he.po: needs merge
po/nl.po: needs merge
po/pt.po: needs merge
po/sl.po: needs merge
po/cs.po: unmerged (d5c1afc3455c7134c6dcdbd82c78d22bc2b61b99)
po/cs.po: unmerged (3a7e7017c03e24a2e943fc6b544eba7a14d3baf2)
po/cs.po: unmerged (a64455d1b8bafb5fea28d24d629043c320ce0135)
po/de.po: unmerged (81f61e9966040ce0f33c2872233a5ca8e4370009)
po/de.po: unmerged (8b918caefbee6ac48a1d0e26eb714d314d8d7050)
po/de.po: unmerged (3d70aaf3e3f2e6a361208a4ec67abc9a71af4f49)
po/gl.po: unmerged (254400a4e3eee9668e50c0e1d5c4195961f6d53e)
po/gl.po: unmerged (72c0a51800b72464f096add514a647d186585093)
po/gl.po: unmerged (d5933d11863868d92567f1f9696c7567b3b08375)
po/he.po: unmerged (0d62fa3f8757d631b98d74197a5e75bb68bb4115)
...
fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees
Cannot save the current index state

Is this just a server issue that I need to wait for the git server to resolve?

I ran into that one too----I just trashed the gdk_pixbuf folder & rebuilt again--looks like a old file thing with git---Mine wouldn't resolve with the older stuff----and a clean download went right thru with no errors......

averlon said: Hi,

how do I deactivate (not deinstall) GNOME from loading when I start my server?

I don't really think this is the right place to be asking this; try posting in the general help forum over here: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=331

Is anyone having GS crash when they try to move a window?

Also wondering where I can change the button (menu, min, max, close) positioning. When GS is running, my gconf settings are ignored and GS puts the buttons on the right-side ("old" way) with all windows *except* for chromium, which has the buttons on the left-side ("new" way).

Thanks...