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Got Vivaldi Working on Arch! - wd5gnr - 09-12-2020
I got Vivaldi to run under Arch, and probably the same trick would work for Chrome (which is under Vivaldi).
1. In the AUR there is a 64-bit Arm Vivaldi snapshot Download it
2. Unpack the archive and do an install like you would anything else from AUR
3. There were 2 or 3 things I had to add using pacman (in fact, I had to add fakeroot to get the packaging to work). Everything was there, just pacman -S xxxx
4. Do the install.
Now you will have a problem. Vivaldi is there but won't run. Here's why. GDK_BACKEND is set to wayland. It needs to be set to x11. You can edit the launcher or the Vivaldi script or from CLI:
GDK_BACKEND=x11 vivaldi-stable
Seems to mostly work. The interface is a bit clipped. Setting it to native window (restart required) helped I think. Moving the address bar to the bottom helped a lot.
Woo hoo!
Update: ALT+F10 maximizes the window which cleans up most of the issues.
RE: Got Vivaldi Working on Arch! - robgriff444 - 09-13-2020
It's in manjaros aur as an arm build too, works perfectly
RE: Got Vivaldi Working on Arch! - wd5gnr - 09-13-2020
A few notes. GDK_BACKEND is also the key to get emacs to run in the GUI.
binutils should be installed before the buildpkg step, but if you don't you just get a warning.
If you find the desktop files in /usr/share you can change
Exec=xxxx
to
Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 xxxx
To make a shortcut like Vivaldi or emacs run properly.
RE: Got Vivaldi Working on Arch! - hanscees - 11-09-2020
(09-12-2020, 09:09 PM)wd5gnr Wrote: I got Vivaldi to run under Arch, and probably the same trick would work for Chrome (which is under Vivaldi).hi,
1. In the AUR there is a 64-bit Arm Vivaldi snapshot Download it
2. Unpack the archive and do an install like you would anything else from AUR
3. There were 2 or 3 things I had to add using pacman (in fact, I had to add fakeroot to get the packaging to work). Everything was there, just pacman -S xxxx
4. Do the install.
Now you will have a problem. Vivaldi is there but won't run. Here's why. GDK_BACKEND is set to wayland. It needs to be set to x11. You can edit the launcher or the Vivaldi script or from CLI:
GDK_BACKEND=x11 vivaldi-stable
Seems to mostly work. The interface is a bit clipped. Setting it to native window (restart required) helped I think. Moving the address bar to the bottom helped a lot.
Woo hoo!
Update: ALT+F10 maximizes the window which cleans up most of the issues.
I am currently running arch from the SD card still but all browsers are extremely sluggish:
epiphany is the default and I notice it uses multiple cores (since in top it gets 140%)
Installed midori, which is slightly faster.
but all load pages in 5-10 seconds or slower.
Is that just a system thing at the moment?