| ▲ | Daviey 7 hours ago |
| It means it has a dependency on X11. $ go install github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere@latest
# golang.design/x/clipboard
clipboard_linux.c:14:10: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
14 | #include <X11/Xlib.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
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| ▲ | petcat 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yikes, so it's a "TUI" app... that still requires a display server? So I can't run this TUI over SSH or a virtual terminal. Wondering what the point of a tui is that still requires a gui environment to run? |
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| ▲ | Daviey 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sorry, I was unhelpfully flippant. You totally can, and I don't want to distract from the great app that has been shared. This bug was just a compile time issue, which needed X libs to bake in clipboard support which is optional at runtime. |
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| ▲ | sigmonsays 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| this stopped me from go installing it too on nixos. I'm not gonna put the effort in to run it. There should be a build tag to disable clipboard, that'd be the easiest way around this. |
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| ▲ | fellerts 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That has nothing to do with the UI framework. The X11 dependency comes as part of the clipboard integration (which I'd argue should be optional or even removed). Still, I wouldn't call it modern if Wayland is outright not supported. |
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| ▲ | rvermeulen98 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think this is only a problem when building from source, right? It is indeed because of the dependency on https://github.com/golang-design/clipboard. I hesitated a bit bringing in this feature. On one hand, I really like to have clipboard support, on the other hand, I don't like that it requires you to change from static to dynamic linking (and have the x11 dependency). Maybe I could write an install.sh script for installation that detects the OS and fetches the correct version/tarball from the Github release. | | |
| ▲ | Daviey 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | That library isn't going to support Wayland any time soon, and requiring CGO isn't ideal IMO. See this bug, https://github.com/golang-design/clipboard/issues/6 How about this PR? https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere/pull/29 It switches to using github.com/dece2183/go-clipboard, which supports Mac, Windows, Linux (X11 + Wayland) and Android. | | |
| ▲ | rvermeulen98 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks a lot for your contribution, this is something I will look into in the upcoming days. I totally agree that CGO isn't ideal, I had to make the build/release process also a lot more complicated purely for that clipboard requirement (see GHAs and the different goreleaser files). On the other hand, I also don't want whosthere to be depended on a fork that isn't maintained anymore. I will think about this trade-off, but I am also interested how others look at this problem. |
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| ▲ | ok123456 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What's modern about Wayland? |
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