Question about non-xfce dependencies for 4.20

[Gaël Bonithon]

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 Arch uses https://launchpad.net/libdbusmenu as a source, I guess that's the least worst (it's no longer maintained anyway).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 <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> 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 (some of the notes might be out of date, I can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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