Error making: newm-git

[Yoliani]

File "/home/edgardoyoliani/.cache/yay/newm-git/src/pywm/setup.py", line 15, in raise Exception("Fatal: Error executing 'ninja -C build': \n%r\n%r" % (stdout, stderr)) Exception: Fatal: Error executing 'ninja -C build':

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -> error making: newm-git

I can't install it with yay -S newm-git

[jbuchermn]

Btw, I just realised, newm and pywm already did contain requirements_mypy.txt (which were not completely up-to-date...) I renamed the files to requirements.txt

[Pandademic]

@sadrach-cl WOW 😲! Please send config's later. They'll definitely be useful in future reference , at least for ricing NEWM

[Pandademic]

@jbuchermn is requirements.txt up to date now? If not , I'll send a PR

[jbuchermn]

Yes, only pywm is not listed, as it's not distributed on pypi. But pywms requirements.txt is also up-to-date (in both cases on branch v0.3)

[sadrach-cl]

I don't want to open a new issue for this. Any telegram, discord or reddit group to follow? there are simple things to ask and a community helps a lot more than filling the issues repository.

Now, how can I solve the rounded saw corners and increase the speed when pressing commands like "logo+HJKL"?

[jbuchermn]

I think that's a very good idea. Until now, there's no such thing, but it would help a lot.

Which platform is best for that? Can anyone set it up?

[Pandademic]

@jbuchermn maybe gitter?

[jbuchermn]

I created a gitter community: https://gitter.im/jbuchermn-newm/community# Let's see how this works, I've never used that before. :)

Closing this issue for now, as it's become about something else.

[lidgnulinux]

If you all are facing "avcodec" error while building or installing pywm and newm, you need to try relinking libavcodec and libavcodec.pc to 58 version and not the 59 one.

[TooSpooky]

Hey, hate to bring this up as the project is no longer maintained but as I mentioned in another issue I seem to have this problem.

Manually installed everything within the requirements.txt's of each pywm and newm. Including Ninja, levenshtein, meson, and dasbus via Yay. I've tried installing via yay -S newm-git and yay -G newm-git

Although I'm new to this so I could be missing something or something said earlier in the thread, just thought i'd leave this here for the future or in-case someone would be kind enough to give me a hand to try it out.

Thanks for your time.

[tewkanz]

pywm is built using a specific revision of wlroots, but it sounds like maybe that doesn't play nice with some of the dependencies of wlroots being on a newer version (just guessing since some of the errors mention deprecation). This isn't a problem when we build newm on nix, I guess because nix gets the correct version of the dependencies as well?

You might be able to try either overriding wlroots to ignore warnings during build. In subprojects/wlroots/meson.build, remove the line 'werror=true' here.

newm might also build okay with wlroots up to date? You could try running git pull from subprojects/wlroots and pulling down a more recent version.

[Pandademic]

hello @TooSpooky, sorry for the late reply. As @tewkanz mentioned getting newm to work with newer versions of wlroots yield really ugly errors.While working on a PR here for touchscreen(still WIP, a year in the works now), I think i have seen that exact error.Unfortunately, I have yet to find a fix for it.If you are still interested in newm, let me know, and I will get a message to you as soon as something is found.Finally, on the subject of newm being seemingly unmaintained, you can still reach out to me(perhaps gitter would be a better place) for any issues you may have, and I'll do my best to help you.I've been thinking about maintaining a fork of this(with my touchscreen patch work) seprately.I know the source well enough from contributing, so it could work out.Any thoughts on the last part, anyone?

(cc for last part @jbuchermn @CRAG666 ?)

[TooSpooky]

Hey @Pandademic no problem at all, I just appreciate a reply haha. For sure let me know if you find a fix for wlroots. Would love to give this a shot.

A lot to ask but i’d also appreciate some more detailed instructions on how to get a basic semi-functional setup, from the standpoint of someone who uses windows usually but thinks newm is interesting and wants to give it a shot in a vm. (I.E. can navigate to files and edit them in nano or whatever but doesn’t know what to put in them or where to input entries in the file, etc) for a distro you find it currently functional on. Once I have a basic working setup I can generally dissect how to edit configs and such to my liking, but before then haha i’m a lil lost. Only if you have the time and it’s no trouble.

Thanks and take care!

[Pandademic]

@TooSpooky It's a little late where I am now, I will send you smth about getting a working (functional) vm to play with newm in tommorow.Is there a better place I can send the stuff to you own? Perhaps gitter or discord?

[TooSpooky]

Thanks man, truly appreciate it. Sure, can send me a dm on discord at TooSpooky#8860. I’ve just been using vmware to mess around with stuff so far, if that makes any difference. @Pandademic

[Pandademic]

I sent a friend on discord @TooSpooky.

[TooSpooky]

Accepted, thanks. @Pandademic