Closed svHatch closed 6 years ago
@svHatch does it fix your issue?
yes.
@and3rson - yes it does. My reason for opening the issue was to propose these packages as requirements. I wasn't able to get any functionality without these packages, so I thought they might be appropriate as requirements, rather than simply throwing a warning. I may be misunderstanding the warning.
The bug is caused by the fact that Clay needs to use the official keybinder Python bindings which use PyGObject. The Keybinder bindings are as far as I can tell only in the distro's package manager and not on PyPy. This means that you need to install that separately and that you need to pass --system-site-packages
to virtualenv so it can find it.
This is further complicated by the fact that the PyPy and AUR python3-keybinder
packages are not the same bindings as the Ubuntu one. The former is a long gone unofficial version that will not work with Clay while the latter is because Ubuntu separates the bindings.
Pull request #10 should fix the issue.
@ValentijnvdBeek - understood.
Can Clay be used without a keybinder? If not, then can the installation of the keybinder be part of the Clay install documentation?
@svHatch
Clay can be used without the Keybinder package but it will show an error. Keybinder makes global X bindings so you can control Clay from another window (or so is my understanding). So it should have no effect if you're using it as solely a terminal program. The use of keybinder should probably be optional and/or configurable so Clay doesn't rely on having X and GTK installed which is a big minus for headless systems.
I don't know why it is is not currently in the installation instructions but I've written some and filed a pull request.
@svHatch fixed in #10 by @ValentijnvdBeek
Could not import Keybinder and Gtk. Error was: "Namespace Keybinder not available" Global shortcuts will not work.
This fixed it (from http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/fuzzy-window-switcher-for-ubuntu.html): sudo apt-get install libkeybinder-3.0-0 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0
not sure if this was intended functionality, but it's pretty useless without the keybinder. Maybe this could be added to the requirements?