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python-xlib has been updated to follow the upstream 0.33 version, and this fixed safeeyes. So the workaround I proposed in my comment below is not needed anymore, and you should delete it in case you were using it.

@ilario Instead of that workaround, IMO, it seems clearer to just wait upstream to up dependency version and then use the latest python-xlib from github.

An old bug in python-xlib 0.31 is causing safeeyes to crash on start, with the message Xlib.error.DisplayConnectionError: Can't connect to display ":0": b'Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified\n'. Until when a newer version of python-xlib is packaged, you can try the workaround described here: https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes/issues/495#issuecomment-1428099149

Anyone willing to take over the maintenance of safeeyes AUR package, please let me know at GitHub. Related issue: https://github.com/slgobinath/SafeEyes/issues/490

I just observed a crash of safeeyes (and also the version from safeeyes-git) on my Arch 64bit laptop. Installing python-croniter fixed.

$ yay -S safeeyes
[...]
[Aur:1]  safeeyes-2.1.3-1
[...]
$ safeeyes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/safeeyes", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('safeeyes==2.1.3', 'console_scripts', 'safeeyes')())
  File "/usr/bin/safeeyes", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 171, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/safeeyes/__main__.py", line 32, in <module>
    from safeeyes import utility
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/safeeyes/utility.py", line 36, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 674, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 571, in module_from_spec
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__init__.py", line 92, in create_module
    return importlib.import_module('setuptools._distutils')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    import setuptools.version
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3267, in <module>
    def _initialize_master_working_set():
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3241, in _call_aside
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3279, in _initialize_master_working_set
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 573, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 891, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/home/ilario/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 777, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'croniter' distribution was not found and is required by safeeyes

@hcra I ran into the same problem. It seems like the python-cronter dependency has become mandatory. I installed that and it seemed to work. @gobinath do you want to update the PKGBUILD to make it manditory.

@E3LDDfrK hi, i also have the icon problem too. And strace safeeyes shows that it tried to access $HOME/.local/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/safeeyes_enabled.png.

In my case, this is a symlink to /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/safeeyes/platform/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/safeeyes_enabled.png. So after the python upgrade, the symlink is broken and safeeyes cannot display icons properly.

Just use find $HOME/.local/share/icons/ -iname 'safeeyes*' -delete to remove these symlinks, and the icon works again.

For what it's worth, rebuilding the package doesn't seem to solve the autostart and icon problem I mentioned below. I'm on xfce if it matters.

edit: Thanks hetoc88319. Deleting the symlinks and rebuild works for the icon problem. For autostart I just did it manually with desktop entry in ~/.config/autostart/. Perhaps there's a similar problem/solution for autostart too.

Python packages need a rebuild when python changes its version (because packages built with python 3.9 are installed into /usr/lib/python3.9/... and python 3.10 expects them in /usr/lib/python3.10/.... Simple rebuilding solves this).

It would be a good idea to bump pkgrel to indicate the need for a rebuild.

@hcra The safeeyes-git version is working. But autostart is not working in that version too. Problem started with recent python package upgrade.