Lomiri for Arch

This project aims to bring Lomiri (former Unity8) DE to Arch GNU/Linux.

Builds are provided for x86_64.

i686, armv7h, and aarch64 builds are planned.

Resources

Live USB image

You can grab a pre-made iso image from https://lomiri.mynameisivan.ru/iso/

Flash it to any usb flashdrive (>= 2 Gb) (you can use Etcher for that)

Boot from it. You should see a tty with a shell. Don't worry, that's expected.

You can connect to the internet via networkmanager cli gui by running nmtui if you wish.

Run ./unity8.sh to launch Lomiri.

As it's an alpha build, it takes around 5-10 minutes to start (you should see an empty black screen with no splashscreen, please be patient).

The default user is unity8 with no password. My custom repository is already included.

It's expected to crash a lot, it's purpose is to showcase progress of Lomiri on Arch.

Installing

Add the Lomiri repository to /etc/pacman.conf:

[lomiri]
SigLevel = Required TrustAll
Server = https://lomiri.mynameisivan.ru/$repo/os/$arch

Refresh the local pacman database:

sudo pacman -Syyu

If previous command failed to import my GPG key, do it manually:

sudo pacman-key --recv-keys --keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net F3A621DFD4328CC4
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key F3A621DFD4328CC4
sudo pacman -Syyu

Install Lomiri and some important packages (TODO: metapackage):

sudo pacman -S unity8-git qt5-wayland qterminal qtmir-git

Skip the greeter (not used on desktops, broken):

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/ubuntu-system-settings
touch $HOME/.config/ubuntu-system-settings/wizard-has-run

Launch Lomiri with (either from a tty or from a terminal):

QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=true MIR_SERVER_CURSOR=null QT_QPA_PLATFORM=mirserver unity8

It should not work on nvidia proprietary, it's a limitation of Mir.

As it's an alpha build, it takes around 5-10 minutes to start (you should see an empty black screen with no splashscreen, please be patient).

Building

Building instructions were moved to a separate document.

Contributing

Please follow the contributing guide.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

vanyasem / Lomiri-Arch

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