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Please add libxext build dependency. Thank you!

spacenavd 1.3 was released on June 07, 2024. https://github.com/FreeSpacenav/spacenavd/releases/tag/v1.3

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systemd told me that the service should be updated:

 /usr/lib/systemd/system/spacenavd.service:6: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/spnavd.pid → /run/spnavd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly.

I'm having an issue with mapping buttons to keyboard commands. It seems the issue is related to the .service file. If I run spacenavd manually I see "Using XTEST to send key events" and the key events in my config work fine. Running it through systemd there is no information about what is used for sending key events. I'm still digging into the source to figure this out, but it has something to do with not having an X11 display available when starting up, I think.

Edit: It looks like the culprit is the $DISPLAY variable. When launching manually it uses $DISPLAY=:1, but through systemd it is using $DISPLAY=:0.0. I'll need to dig into this some more for my system.

Here are the (minor) changes necessary for 1.1 . Seems to be working on my machine.

Subject: [PATCH] update to 1.1

---
 PKGBUILD | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index f868fe3..d1e5f61 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Creator: Jan Hambrecht <jaham at gmx dot net>

 pkgname=spacenavd
-pkgver=1.0
+pkgver=1.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The spacenav project provides a free, compatible alternative, to the proprietary 3Dconnexion device driver and SDK, for their 3D input devices (called 'space navigator', 'space pilot', 'space traveller', etc)."
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ provides=('spacenavd')
 backup=('etc/spnavrc')
 source=(https://github.com/FreeSpacenav/spacenavd/releases/download/v$pkgver/spacenavd-$pkgver.tar.gz spacenavd.service)

-
-sha256sums=('8e3af4e8767bc07f9e19773d769c66e169fc752ae305b7ed9f71ede86cc95a9a'
-         '5a1122cf44acdf34537bc2ef7c1ad3776872f335b2993d68833c23f999d96c11')
+sha256sums=('b2cb4fb8688bcbc5ff491a6d37bcb6eb0ae9198ac4c886c71c85b5aee19a4fa9'
+           '5a1122cf44acdf34537bc2ef7c1ad3776872f335b2993d68833c23f999d96c11')

 build() {
   cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
--
2.38.1

spacenavd 1.0-1 work perfectly with my :

046d:c626 Logitech, Inc. 3Dconnexion Space Navigator 3D Mouse

But this AUR package is not find Pamac, with the search terme : 3Dconnexion OR SpaceNavigator (without space).

Working terme to find this package : Space Navigator or package name but not relevant.

Updated.

Let me know if you have any other issues.

~~Also: It would be great if you could hand this package over to bionade24 so we can include it into the ros-melodic CI/CD architecture~~

Edit: Maybe forget that comment. As this is not necessarily ROS-related it might make sense to not require it running through our ros-melodic CI/CD.

Could you please update this? Changing the optdepend into a makedepend resolves this.

--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="The spacenav project provides a free, compatible alternative, to the pr
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/"
 license=('GPL')
-optdepends=("libx11")
+makedepends=("libx11")
 provides=('spacenavd')
 backup=('etc/spnavrc')
 source=(https://github.com/FreeSpacenav/spacenavd/releases/download/v$pkgver/spacenavd-$pkgver.tar.gz spacenavd.service)

@And1G, thanks for the feedback. I'll have time this coming Friday to look at this. I'll get it squared away.