new awesome version (3.5) about blingbling

[Ranler]

I have the same issue, does this repo not maintained?

[macstr1k3r]

Also having this issue

[cedlemo]

No blingbling is not working with the last version of Awesome WM. Awesome developpers have done a lot of modifications on the widgets API for the two/three last versions. So I decided to stop and wait. Now it seems that they provides an easy way to create widgets. So I think that I will adapt the old blingbling for the new api. Just need a little time. SO ... NO THIS REPO IS NOT DEAD.

[dwendt]

I'm another who would be thankful for a port to 3.5

[cedlemo]

Ok here is the situation:

The fact is that I have already started the port to the new widget api but I decided to wait a little the evolution of awesome Wm. Now I want to continue binbling but there is one problem:
lua-lgi.

Blingbling use, in the widgets, the cairo mehtod text_extents via lua-lgi which generate a segfault and crash awesome WM.

I have to wait for a solution to this problem. The actual and problematic version of lua-lgi is 0.6.2. The master of lua-lgi have been pacthed but I have to wait they release a new stable version. ( to many problem on my Archlinux in order to run lua-lgi and awesome-git working and don't have enought time)

Or try an alternative with pango in order to display text in my widgets.

Or maybe try an alternative while I am waiting for a solution to the text_extents problem.

So I am working on it .

Cedlemo

[FrostbittenKing]

Ok, thanks for the update. Guess I will stay on 3.4 for some time. Thought, maybe now everything works with 3.5 so I updated awesome to 3.5 .. bam causing an "explosion". Reverting wasn't funny :(. Haven't had the 3.4 package in the cache anymore. At least there is the awesome34 package in the AUR. Still had to patch your PKGBUILD of blingbling so that it doesn't get angry that the package name is awesome34 not awesome :/.

[cedlemo]

I didn't create the package for arch and I don't maintain it so you should go on the AUR page of the package and send a bug.
For information, it seems that the v7.0 of lua-lgi is almost ( see https://github.com/pavouk/lgi ) out so I hope I will be able to finish blinbling for awesome v3.5 soon.

[FrostbittenKing]

Yeah, you're right. It's not your package ;). Guess will ask maintainer to be so kind to fix this.