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HikariKnight / material-awesome

Material and Mouse driven config for AwesomeWM 4.3
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Weird lua error on awesome startup #15

Closed cyril-marpaud closed 2 years ago

cyril-marpaud commented 3 years ago

Hi @HikariKnight, First of all, sorry if this ain't the place for questions... and thx for your work, it looks awesome & I can't wait to have a up & running setup that uses it. I've spent most of the day trying to install your theme but I can't seem to make my way around what I think is a lua error when awesomewm starts.

I've also tried to install themes from https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles but a similar error shows up & awesome stays ugly :(

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I've downloaded a debian-testing img & installed it in virtualbox, built awesome from source using the instructions at https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/tree/master#debian-based & then installed the dependencies.

Have I missed something along the way, like a dependency or anything that could cause such an error ? Is there any procedure that I could follow coming from a clean no-DE environment ?

Thx in advance.

PS : the actual error that shows up says there's a probem with this line : https://github.com/HikariKnight/material-awesome/blob/a57bd52ec12991b07618cca6bbea8b20595f19fa/theme/default-theme.lua#L49 which is the first line where gtk_variable() is called. That might help you understand what could be wrong...

HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

you could try change any instance of gtk_variable().whatever into an actual color hex as the gtk_variable() function fetches settings from the gtk/gnome system (i see it used to fetch gtk color settings in the code)

so maybe because of that, it will not work when coming from a no-DE environment. that would be my guess

cyril-marpaud commented 3 years ago

I've tried reinstalling debian with gnome & then only, recompile awesome and reinstall other dependencies (instead of coming from a no-DE env). I don't have the weird lua error anymore, I can see the theme being setup although nothing seems "clickable" (so clearly not usable but there's progress, thx for the insight !). I used https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles but i'll try again using your repo today or tomorrow and keep you posted.

HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

please do

cyril-marpaud commented 3 years ago

Progress, but still totally unusable. I'll try it again this weekend on a real laptop rather than in virtualBox, i see weird resolution & display issues that might disappear on a real setup.

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HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

Pretty sure that is caused by virtualbox (primarily the "resize vm to window" option and the vbox display driver), try restarting awesome and see if the resolution is re-set as awesome only checks resolution for panels and such ONCE when starting up, restarting awesome should re-run that check.

right click the wallpaper --> awesome --> restart or press CTRL+SUPER+R

HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

hey @Fointard is this still an issue?

cyril-marpaud commented 3 years ago

Hi, sorry for the tardiness, I was supposed to receive my new laptop like 2 weeks ago & make the test on real hardware but it still hasn't been sent :( I didn't forget about you though, i will make the test & keep you posted.

HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

ok 👍

BarrelKnight723 commented 3 years ago

IMG_0769 These are the errors that I have gotten and I also have the display settings error. It seems that there are some missing files so I will try to clone the config file again.

BarrelKnight723 commented 3 years ago

I just tried to clone it again and the error was still there. I will try another pork and will let you know which one it is if it works.

HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

@CSForever07 step 1 image

the current "stable" awesomewm in most distro repositories does not have the ruled library as it was added to the master branch after the stable release of awesome 4.3

BarrelKnight723 commented 3 years ago

Oh ok, I will try that and will keep you posted.

HikariKnight commented 3 years ago

👍

cyril-marpaud commented 3 years ago

Hi @HikariKnight, New laptop reception was further delayed due to the ongoing shortage, I had to quickly install another distro to start working asap as I couldn't afford to spend more time on configuration :( I might come back to your awesome work some day but not in the near future, pls close this issue & sorry for the inconvenience... (thx anyway for the work & support !)