Bug#1035044: autorandr: recommend libinput-tools missing

[Frank Scherrer]

Package: autorandr
Version: 1.12.1-27-g4653ea6
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

first: Thanks for your work, I was missing a tool like autorandr dearly and was
so glad I found it. That was years ago.

* What led up to the situation?

I detected and stored two differend setups of Monitors, both connected to
docking-station and external monitor.
One with lid closed, one with lid open.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

Opening or closing the lid.

* What was the outcome of this action?

No change of Displays Configuration

* What outcome did you expect instead?

Change of Displays Configuration

* Additional Info apart from default questions

Systemd-Service autorandr-lid-listener failed with error:
In the journal of autorandr-lid-listener I found

autorandr[51936]: stdbuf: failed to run command ‘libinput’: No such file or
directory

So I installed libinput-tools. Afterwards I could get the service started and
the Configuration changed after opening/closing the lid.

I suggest to put libinput-tools into the list of recommended packages.

Does this sound reasonable?

cheers
Frank

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, Frank Scherrer wrote:
> Change of Displays Configuration
>
> * Additional Info apart from default questions
>
> Systemd-Service autorandr-lid-listener failed with error:
> In the journal of autorandr-lid-listener I found
>
> autorandr[51936]: stdbuf: failed to run command ‘libinput’: No such file or
> directory

We currently aren't distributing (or installing) autorandr-lid-listener
in the Debian package.

That said, we probably should; so I'll add this as a depends.

Thanks for the report.

--
Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com

Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
-- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]

[Frank Scherrer]

Hi

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 04:33:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> We currently aren't distributing (or installing) autorandr-lid-listener
> in the Debian package.

My bad. You are right, I was not talking about the package included in
debian. Did not realize/remember that I had the package built myself
from some instructions on github.

Thanks for looking into it!

[Allan Olsen]

Package: autorandr
Version: 1.14-1
Followup-For: Bug #1035044
X-Debbugs-Cc: allanol...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I had 14.000 lines with these error messages last two days , untill I installed libinput-tools

Dec 08 22:44:15 Innerpeace systemd[1]: Started autorandr-lid-listener.service - Runs autorandr whenever the lid state changes.
Dec 08 22:44:15 Innerpeace autorandr[61889]: stdbuf: failed to run command ‘libinput’: No such file or directory
Dec 08 22:44:15 Innerpeace systemd[1]: autorandr-lid-listener.service: Deactivated successfully.
Dec 08 22:44:45 Innerpeace systemd[1]: autorandr-lid-listener.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1832.

seems like for now autorandr only have two dependencies
Depends: x11-xserver-utils, python3

After I installed libinput-tools Messages are gone.

*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages autorandr depends on:
ii python3 3.11.4-5+b1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+10

autorandr recommends no packages.

autorandr suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Don Armstrong]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2023, Allan Olsen wrote:
> Dec 08 22:44:15 Innerpeace systemd[1]: Started autorandr-lid-listener.service - Runs autorandr whenever the lid state changes.
> Dec 08 22:44:15 Innerpeace autorandr[61889]: stdbuf: failed to run command ‘libinput’: No such file or directory
> Dec 08 22:44:15 Innerpeace systemd[1]: autorandr-lid-listener.service: Deactivated successfully.
> Dec 08 22:44:45 Innerpeace systemd[1]: autorandr-lid-listener.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1832.
>
> seems like for now autorandr only have two dependencies
> Depends: x11-xserver-utils, python3
>
> After I installed libinput-tools Messages are gone.

Heh; thanks for the report. I added the lid-listener.service in 1.14-1,
and didn't check for new dependencies.

I'll have this fixed up in 1.14-2 once I upload it.

--
Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com

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die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
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