Package Details: electricsheep-svn 160-2

Package Base: electricsheep-svn
Description: A screensaver that realize the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the Internet
Upstream URL: http://www.electricsheep.org/
Category: multimedia
Licenses: GPLv2
Provides: electricsheep-svn
Submitter: Hideaki
Maintainer: clayman
Last Packager: clayman
Votes: 15
First Submitted: 2009-01-25 07:25
Last Updated: 2014-11-21 20:57

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Sources

  • electricsheep-160.patch

Latest Comments

Comment by clayman

2014-11-21 20:57

Updated to -2 because the previous version couldn't compile correctly (a missing build subdirectory and wrong detection of the GLee library). This one should work fine.

Comment by clayman

2014-11-16 14:30

Okay, I have updated the PKGBUILD with the most recent build/run-time dependencies and SVN revision. The package builds and runs on my machine but I may have missed a dependency so if anyone runs into trouble, shout out here and I'll look into it.

Comment by nrq

2014-07-22 10:39

Package disowned as I stopped using electricsheep for now, so anyone who wants to take care of it, go ahead.

Comment by clayman

2013-11-24 10:17

Hi guys, I'm happy to report that my patches have been accepted upstream, so the current SVN version #148 should at least compile and run correctly, including the setup tool.

There still are some more issues that I hope to be able to iron out soon (such as the ability to render to a window like in KDE 4's screen saver setup dialog and correct handling of multidisplay systems) but the core functionality should work.

Also, wxgtk2.9 is a requirement, the preferences tool won't compile with 2.8.

Comment by clayman

2013-11-17 15:47

Also, I think ES no longer uses mplayer to render stuff, it's all done in OpenGL (on Linux anyway) so the mplayer dependency can go too.

Comment by clayman

2013-11-17 15:45

Hi guys! Since the current SVN version of ElectricSheep is still pretty much broken, I have decided to take matters in my own hands and I have come up with a patch that at least gets electricsheep to run and display something.

Alas, the configuration utility is still broken and crashes after a few seconds because of an assertion failure somewhere in the pango library.

Today I have contacted the dev(s) of ES to get my patch(es) incorporated upstream. I'll see what their reaction will be and will sort things out if need be.

Comment by clayman

2013-06-24 08:08

Has anyone tried to compile the latest SVN version of electicsheep lately? I have been getting a huge mixed load of warnings about deprecated calls and errors about missing symbols. I have managed to fix some configure issues but the code gives me a hard time when I try to fix the problems.

Comment by nrq

2013-02-11 08:33

No problem, mate, anyway looks like the community's version is working now.

Comment by Hideaki

2012-12-24 02:12

Thanks for taking over, hnrch. Unfortunately, I am no longer an Arch user so I can't maintain the package anymore.

Comment by WorMzy

2011-06-03 18:26

There's no need for the libgnomeui or gconf dependencies any more, please remove them from the pkgbuild.

Comment by flow

2010-08-15 12:17

Hello,
please update a version:
http://aur.pastebin.com/FXdRBbWn