Re: Question about non-xfce dependencies for 4.20

It appears it is listed as mandatory dependency in Arch .
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На чт, 7.11.2024 г., 19:14 ч. Gaël Bonithon <[email protected]>
написа:

> Hi,
>
> Not sure what you mean about libdbusmenu, it's only used by the panel I
> think, and it's optional. Arch uses https://launchpad.net/libdbusmenu as
> a source, I guess that's the least worst (it's no longer maintained anyway).
> For the compositor, it's labwc or wayfire indeed, weston is only for quick
> app testing, but not core components in general.
>
> Cheers,
> Gaël
>
> On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to build 4.20-rc1 packages, in the hope I can eventually
> > run startxfce4-wayland and begin to work out how to setup my own
> > (idiosyncratic) keyboard mapping. But I'm having difficulty
> > identifying the non-xfce dependencies.
> >
> > This is on a completed (BLFS-12.2) system using startxfce4 which has
> > Wayland protocols etc, but I'm having a bit of difficulty
> > identifying exactly which non-xfce packages are needed.
> >
> > I eventually got libxfce4windowing built with gtk-layer-shell (deps
> > of libdisplay-info, then gtk-layer-shell - those deps seemed hard to
> > discover) but it appears that I need D-Bus menu support: I see
> > Arch use a git version, and ubuntu have a (newer) version pulled
> > from bzr, but that apparently needs some gnome package(s) to run
> > ./autogen.sh.
> >
> > First question: Is there a canonical libdbusmenu version to download
> > the source, and what dependencies does it require ?
> >
> > Second question: It seems I have a choice of compositors -
> >
> > One of the links at xfce mentioned Weston, but other links mentioned
> > Wayfire or Labwc. Has here been any movement towards preferring a
> > specific compositor ? (some of the notes might be out of date, I can
> > see that developers are concnetrating on getting things working).
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > ĸen
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