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Package Details: kanshi-git 1.5.1.r6.g0602cd3-1
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Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/kanshi-git.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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Package Base: | kanshi-git |
Description: | Dynamic output configuration for Wayland WMs |
Upstream URL: | https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/kanshi |
Keywords: | sway wayland |
Licenses: | MIT |
Conflicts: | kanshi |
Provides: | kanshi |
Submitter: | lowercase |
Maintainer: | pychuang |
Last Packager: | pychuang |
Votes: | 10 |
Popularity: | 0.21 |
First Submitted: | 2019-03-19 14:21 (UTC) |
Last Updated: | 2024-02-04 22:37 (UTC) |
Dependencies (8)
- libscfg-gitAUR
- libvarlink (libvarlink-gitAUR)
- wayland (wayland-gitAUR, wayland-asan-gitAUR, wayland-chromiumAUR)
- git (git-gitAUR, git-glAUR) (make)
- meson (meson-gitAUR) (make)
- ninja (ninja-kitwareAUR, ninja-memAUR, ninja-fuchsia-gitAUR, ninja-gitAUR, ninja-jobserverAUR) (make)
- scdoc (scdoc-gitAUR) (make)
- wlroots (wlroots-asan-gitAUR, wlroots0.16-nvidiaAUR, wlroots-displaylink-gitAUR, wlroots-nvidia-screenshareAUR, wlroots-nvidiaAUR, wlroots0.17-hidpi-xpropAUR, wlroots-hidpi-xprop-gitAUR, wayfire-gitAUR, wlroots-hidpi-xpropAUR) (make)
Required by (2)
- sway-services-git (requires kanshi) (optional)
- wayfire-desktop-git (requires kanshi)
Latest Comments
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pychuang commented on 2024-02-04 22:44 (UTC)
Thanks @vikbar54.9 and @yrlf. Let me know if there's any issues!
yrlf commented on 2024-02-04 21:54 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-04 21:56 (UTC) by yrlf)
As @vikbar54.9 said, please add
libscfg-git
todepends
.Also, the versioning scheme in this package does not fit the Arch Linux VCS package guidelines. The version should usually contain the latest upstream version before the disambiguation tag with revision count and git hash, to be able to compare upstream versions and development versions easily.
Additionally, the
provides
entry can be set to also include the version.Here is a patch that fixes all three issues in the PKGBUILD:
vikbar54.9 commented on 2024-02-03 19:23 (UTC)
It requires libscfg now, otherwise it errors out on not finding scfg runtime dependecy.
pychuang commented on 2021-02-24 18:58 (UTC) (edited on 2021-02-24 19:00 (UTC) by pychuang)
This package comes with a
systemd
unit file that is not supported by the upstream. To enable the unit, run$ systemctl --user enable kanshi.service
. Some notes:graphical-session.target
has already started. Though on many users' systems,graphical-session.target
always starts under Sway, Sway actually does not activategraphical-session.target
by default. Thegraphical-session.target
may be activated silently by some other applications/units or by explicitexec
command in the Sway config.graphical-session.target
. This says, if you sometimes use other WM, likegnome
orkde
,kanshi.service
will also automatically start (and then fail because kanshi is a Sway-only application).The best practice is to create your own
sway-session.target
, and modify (or create your own) thekanshi.service
to be wanted bysway-session.target
. See the Wiki at Sway's GitHub and also ArchWiki:gmy commented on 2021-02-22 23:43 (UTC)
Despite that service might not fit into each and every setup, I was pretty happy to find service units to be included in some other packages while switching to systemd as the only apps startup manager for Sway. Current setup has been my only daily driver for a few weeks already, so I thought, that someone else could also benefit from having similar service units added to the packages, which don't yet provide one.
For example, gammastep, being a community package and wlroots-specific, does include a user service and uses graphical-session.target:
Same applies to flashfocus-git. Mako also includes a service, althought it's service is not attached to any target.
pychuang commented on 2021-02-19 15:24 (UTC)
@lowercase I would suggest putting the kanshi service unit under
/usr/lib/systemd/user
or/etc/systemd/user
becausegraphical-session.target
is a user-space unit (launched with--user
flag). Andsway-session.target
should be something depending ongraphical-session.target
.@gmy I'm not sure how many Wayland WMs support
wlr-output-management
, but at least kanshi does not work withgnome
's Wayland session. Also,graphical-session.target
runs even under X11 WMs, i.e., not just Wayland WMs usegraphical-session.target
. I think that's probably why Arch's official kanshi package and other Sway-specific utilities (like swayidle) do not include a service file.I'm thinking about including either @lowercase's or @gmy's systemd unit in this package and adding documentation in wiki or somewhere to let users know about the caveats.
gmy commented on 2021-02-19 13:57 (UTC) (edited on 2021-02-19 14:01 (UTC) by gmy)
@pychuang, @lowercase, but how kanshi is related specifically to sway? Shouldn't it support any wayland WM?
https://github.com/emersion/kanshi
Also, isn't it up to user to deside whether enable systemd service or not? And, isn't it disabled by default?
AFAIK, even if service file gets installed with the package, user won't see any differences, until he/she enables it. Also, user is free to override it or change.
lowercase commented on 2021-02-19 13:54 (UTC)
Heya,
just looked around and there is indeed an aur package that implements the necessary service unit. Here is my proposal: https://gist.github.com/mattiasgiese/d0c9054daf562ea8aae106cce2e02a4b
lowercase commented on 2021-02-19 13:41 (UTC)
Heya,
sorry for the late reply. As pychuang indicated it is tricky to just pump a systemd-unit that would only work in a specific setting. A
sway-session.target
would indeed make sense, but that should be implemented in the respectivesway
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