Discovered that someone has been apparently maintaining a github repo for gromit-mpx and there is a tagged 1.1 release that builds successfully here. Let me know if anything goes wrong but I have a clean install from this revised PKGBUILD I just threw together.
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Package Details: gromit-mpx 1.1-3
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| Package Base: | gromit-mpx |
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| Description: | Desktop annotation tool. GTK3 multi-pointer variant of original gromit utility. |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx |
| Category: | multimedia |
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| Submitter: | altercation |
| Maintainer: | altercation |
| Last Packager: | altercation |
| Votes: | 4 |
| First Submitted: | 2011-05-31 20:55 |
| Last Updated: | 2015-03-25 05:53 |
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Comment by altercation
Comment by altercation
The gromit-mpx project is still under development but there hasn't been a release for a while. I'm submitting a new gromit-mpx-git package to the aur as that is much more current code and builds successfully. Please use that if this package fails for you. See: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=64193
Comment by altercation
matthew- done. let me know if this works for you. -ethan
Comment by matthewbauer
Could you set --sysconfigdir=/etc and --prefix=/usr in the ./configure line?
Comment by altercation
This package is fully functional but please note a couple points (I may try to bundle in some sort of documentation with this package in a later release). These points are already covered in the gromit-mpx readme, but I want to be doubly sure that users are aware of them:
1. You will benefit from running a compositing manager (cairo-compmgr, compiz, xcompmgr) when using gromit-mpx. Performance will suffer otherwise.
2. `gromit-mpx &` in a terminal or in, for instance, your .xinitrc will get things started
3. Customization is through a .gromit-mpx.cfg file in $HOME. You can copy a sample config from /usr/local/etc/gromit-mpx/gromit-mpx.cfg to the dotfile in $HOME.
4. F9/Shift-F9 to toggle on/off.