This project is a port of the Ubuntu Unity desktop and most of its features to Arch Linux. Please see the Arch Wiki for more information.

The packages in this repo are automatically built by my Jenkins server whenever a commit is made. To use these packages, just add the following to /etc/pacman.conf:

[Unity-for-Arch]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/486665/Repos/$repo/$arch

[Unity-for-Arch-Extra]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/486665/Repos/$repo/$arch

• thn81
• L42y
• City-Busz
• All of the other AUR maintainers that helped make it possible to run Unity under Arch Linux

Please make sure you don't already have modified versions of the dependencies installed. For example, gtk3-ubuntu might fail to compile if there's a modified version of gtk3 already installed.

Packages ending with "-ubuntu" contain Ubuntu patches and REPLACE Arch Linux versions of those packages.

To compile from source, just build all of the packages in the following order:

See the Arch wiki for more troubleshooting tips.

• AHH! Something is wrong with Unity!

  Try resetting the settings for Unity and Compiz and relogin:

    compiz.reset
    rm -rvf ~/.cache/unity/
    rm -vf ~/.cache/unity-lens-video
  

  If something is still wrong, please file a bug report at either:

  Github

  or

  Launchpad

• The global menu does not show up for Qt 4 applications.

  Just install appmenu-qt