caffeine on LMDE

[bikepunk]

Hi

I'm trying to install caffeine: https://launchpad.net/caffeine on LMDE and I meet a lot of trouble since it seems this package is developed for ubuntu and not debian.

since it's not recomended to use ppa on LMDE ( viewtopic.php?f=199&t=89659&p=519506 ) I'm trying to compile caffein from sources.
see : http://www.lucidelectricdreams.com/2011 ... ra-16.html for details

for some reason I do not have glib-compile-schemas neither /usr/share/caffeine/images/ and /usr/share/caffeine/glade/

it seems compiling though but when I try to run it, I get:

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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'net.launchpad.caffeine' is not installed

aborting...
Aborted


I do not know python, so I actually don't really know what I am doing... Any help is very welcome. Any other way to disable the screensaver while watching streaming videos is also welcome

related topic: VLC and the screensaver on LMDE: viewtopic.php?f=190&t=56027&start=0&hilit=caffeine+lmde



PS: this is my first post on this forum.

[Arran]

Hello Frischling!!!

Kaffeine is in the Repos.
It will install a few KDE based dependencies.

[bikepunk]

Dude, please read my message :
kaffeine IS NOT caffeine.
I'm not interested in an other media player I just need a smart way to control the screensaver... anyone else

[orticultura]

I've installed without any problem caffeine-1.0.1 and it works fine. It's not the newest version.

1. Download the tarball from https://launchpad.net/caffeine
2. tar xvf caffeine-1.0.1.tar.gz && cd caffeine-1.0.1
3. sudo apt-get install python-xlib
4. python setup.py build
5. sudo python setup.py install

You should be now able to start Caffeine by typing caffeine in the command line or by clicking on Applications > Accessories > Caffeine.
When Caffeine starts, an icon of a coffee cup will appear in the task bar.

Hope it helps you

[bikepunk]

Thanks orticultura,

I just tried your way, it gives the same problem as in my first message, may be it's just because I didn't uninstall the unworking 2.4.1 version. I don't know how to uninstall it since is not a deb package...

I will contact the caffeine dev team.

[dbkblk]

You just have to install gir1.2-notify-0.7 and here we go !

[HisDudeness]

I have installed gir1.2-notify-0.7 but still got bikepunk's same error. Then I remembered some actions I had to do about Cinnamon's applets, which had something to do with schemas. I tried that, and got more far, but still get some errors. I'm trying to install the latest version (https://launchpad.net/caffeine/2.4/2.4.1/+download/caffeine_2.4.1%2B419%7Eoneiric1.tar.gz).

The actions you have to do to get past that error are (here I'm assuming you entered into the extracted folder):

• Copy the xml you can find in some sub-directory of the recipe folder (this is the proper default name of what the tar.gz contains in 2.4.1 version... mah) into glib-2.0 schemas' one.
  

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  sudo cp share/glib-2.0/schemas/net.launchpad.caffeine.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

• Make glib-2.0 compile the schemas present in the folder, so that it refreshes its contents and does make a sense of the new one we just put in there
  

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  sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

The errors I get now when trying to launch caffeine are these:

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dude@susan:~/Downloads/recipe-2.4.1+419$ caffeine
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for AppIndicator3

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/caffeine", line 42, in <module>
    caffeine.main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/../lib/python2.7/dist-packages/caffeine/main.py", line 527, in main
    main = GUI()
  File "/usr/local/bin/../lib/python2.7/dist-packages/caffeine/main.py", line 153, in __init__
    self.ProcAdd = ProcAdd()
  File "/usr/local/bin/../lib/python2.7/dist-packages/caffeine/main.py", line 102, in __init__
    "proc.glade"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
    return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
gi._glib.GError: Failed to open file '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/caffeine/../../../../share/caffeine/glade/proc.glade': Permission denied

Can anyone help me with this? The last line looks like a pretty screwed up path, like he's going deep into /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/caffeine (which is an empty directory) and then going back 4 levels to get to /usr/share/caffeine/glade to open proc.glade (and caffeine/ doesn't even exist in /usr/share). What do I have to do? Does anybody know an application like caffeine which is suitable for LMDE?