chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch
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Porting Ubuntu's Unity Shell to Arch Linux
5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2012-04-26 · latest 2022-07-04
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It was done: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch I have not tried it, but Rudra Saraswat's new Unity-like desktop, UnityX, is also available in an Arch version: https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-install-the-unityx-desktop...
comment by lproven · 2022-07-04 · in Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus -
…to get them running anywhere else. Cf. the effort necessary to get Unity running on Arch: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch You have to rip out and replace a lot of software, all the way down to GTK itself, just to make it…
comment by creshal · 2015-11-23 · in If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice -
…version supported: OpenSUSE 12.2 and Fedora 17). [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unity [2] https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch (See "order to compile/install") [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana
comment by Spittie · 2013-07-07 · in Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again -
Unity has been ported to archlinux a while ago. https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch Note the insane amount of packages, most of which are patched versions of packages.
comment by taudelta · 2012-04-26 · in Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin