xcb-xrm not found when installing polybar

I have installed polybar and most parts of it is working, except for reading Xresources.

I do get a nice error message like this one

warn: No built-in support to dereference ${xrdb:color15:#555} references (requires `xcb-util-xrm`)

and it sounds rather straightforward. Just install it and it should be fine.
But I've installed libxcb-xrm-dev and I still get the same issues.

So I thought that maybe I have to recompile polybar, but it is not working(it compiles but no change). and what is interesting is that it doesn't seem to find xcb-xrm when compiling.

** Executing cmake command



-- Trying to enable ccache

-- Couldn't locate ccache, disabling ccache...

-- No build type specified; using RelWithDebInfo

-- Using supported compiler GNU-7.3.0

--  Build:

--    Type: RelWithDebInfo

--    CC: /usr/bin/gcc  -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    CXX: /usr/bin/g++  -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-noexcept-type -pedantic -pedantic-errors -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    LD: /usr/bin/ld  

--  Targets:

-- [X]   polybar-msg

-- [ ]   testsuite

--  Module support:

-- [X]   alsa (1.1.3)

-- [X]   curl (7.58.0)

-- [X]   i3

-- [X]   mpd (2.11)

-- [X]   network (wireless-tools)

-- [X]   pulseaudio (11.1)

-- [ ]   xkeyboard

--  X extensions:

-- [X]   xcb-randr (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-randr (monitor support)

-- [ ]   xcb-render

-- [ ]   xcb-damage

-- [ ]   xcb-sync

-- [X]   xcb-composite (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-xkb

-- [ ]   xcb-xrm

-- [ ]   xcb-cursor

So why wouldn't it find xcb-xrm ?

asked Jan 17 at 13:20

munHunger

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I have installed polybar and most parts of it is working, except for reading Xresources.

I do get a nice error message like this one

warn: No built-in support to dereference ${xrdb:color15:#555} references (requires `xcb-util-xrm`)

and it sounds rather straightforward. Just install it and it should be fine.
But I've installed libxcb-xrm-dev and I still get the same issues.

So I thought that maybe I have to recompile polybar, but it is not working(it compiles but no change). and what is interesting is that it doesn't seem to find xcb-xrm when compiling.

** Executing cmake command



-- Trying to enable ccache

-- Couldn't locate ccache, disabling ccache...

-- No build type specified; using RelWithDebInfo

-- Using supported compiler GNU-7.3.0

--  Build:

--    Type: RelWithDebInfo

--    CC: /usr/bin/gcc  -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    CXX: /usr/bin/g++  -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-noexcept-type -pedantic -pedantic-errors -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    LD: /usr/bin/ld  

--  Targets:

-- [X]   polybar-msg

-- [ ]   testsuite

--  Module support:

-- [X]   alsa (1.1.3)

-- [X]   curl (7.58.0)

-- [X]   i3

-- [X]   mpd (2.11)

-- [X]   network (wireless-tools)

-- [X]   pulseaudio (11.1)

-- [ ]   xkeyboard

--  X extensions:

-- [X]   xcb-randr (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-randr (monitor support)

-- [ ]   xcb-render

-- [ ]   xcb-damage

-- [ ]   xcb-sync

-- [X]   xcb-composite (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-xkb

-- [ ]   xcb-xrm

-- [ ]   xcb-cursor

So why wouldn't it find xcb-xrm ?

asked Jan 17 at 13:20

munHunger

1114

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I have installed polybar and most parts of it is working, except for reading Xresources.

I do get a nice error message like this one

warn: No built-in support to dereference ${xrdb:color15:#555} references (requires `xcb-util-xrm`)

and it sounds rather straightforward. Just install it and it should be fine.
But I've installed libxcb-xrm-dev and I still get the same issues.

So I thought that maybe I have to recompile polybar, but it is not working(it compiles but no change). and what is interesting is that it doesn't seem to find xcb-xrm when compiling.

** Executing cmake command



-- Trying to enable ccache

-- Couldn't locate ccache, disabling ccache...

-- No build type specified; using RelWithDebInfo

-- Using supported compiler GNU-7.3.0

--  Build:

--    Type: RelWithDebInfo

--    CC: /usr/bin/gcc  -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    CXX: /usr/bin/g++  -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-noexcept-type -pedantic -pedantic-errors -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    LD: /usr/bin/ld  

--  Targets:

-- [X]   polybar-msg

-- [ ]   testsuite

--  Module support:

-- [X]   alsa (1.1.3)

-- [X]   curl (7.58.0)

-- [X]   i3

-- [X]   mpd (2.11)

-- [X]   network (wireless-tools)

-- [X]   pulseaudio (11.1)

-- [ ]   xkeyboard

--  X extensions:

-- [X]   xcb-randr (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-randr (monitor support)

-- [ ]   xcb-render

-- [ ]   xcb-damage

-- [ ]   xcb-sync

-- [X]   xcb-composite (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-xkb

-- [ ]   xcb-xrm

-- [ ]   xcb-cursor

So why wouldn't it find xcb-xrm ?

asked Jan 17 at 13:20

munHunger

1114

I have installed polybar and most parts of it is working, except for reading Xresources.

I do get a nice error message like this one

warn: No built-in support to dereference ${xrdb:color15:#555} references (requires `xcb-util-xrm`)

and it sounds rather straightforward. Just install it and it should be fine.
But I've installed libxcb-xrm-dev and I still get the same issues.

So I thought that maybe I have to recompile polybar, but it is not working(it compiles but no change). and what is interesting is that it doesn't seem to find xcb-xrm when compiling.

** Executing cmake command



-- Trying to enable ccache

-- Couldn't locate ccache, disabling ccache...

-- No build type specified; using RelWithDebInfo

-- Using supported compiler GNU-7.3.0

--  Build:

--    Type: RelWithDebInfo

--    CC: /usr/bin/gcc  -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    CXX: /usr/bin/g++  -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-noexcept-type -pedantic -pedantic-errors -O2 -g -DNDEBUG

--    LD: /usr/bin/ld  

--  Targets:

-- [X]   polybar-msg

-- [ ]   testsuite

--  Module support:

-- [X]   alsa (1.1.3)

-- [X]   curl (7.58.0)

-- [X]   i3

-- [X]   mpd (2.11)

-- [X]   network (wireless-tools)

-- [X]   pulseaudio (11.1)

-- [ ]   xkeyboard

--  X extensions:

-- [X]   xcb-randr (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-randr (monitor support)

-- [ ]   xcb-render

-- [ ]   xcb-damage

-- [ ]   xcb-sync

-- [X]   xcb-composite (1.13)

-- [ ]   xcb-xkb

-- [ ]   xcb-xrm

-- [ ]   xcb-cursor

So why wouldn't it find xcb-xrm ?

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There are several ways to solve this problem. I see you are using the build.sh script. Here the easiest way is to pass the -f flag to the script when running it, like so: build.sh -f

This will force polybar to completely reconfigure itself and thus also detect the xrm dependency.

If you are not using the build.sh script, the remaining two ways are to either

Delete the build dir (this is what build.sh -f also does) and run cmake and make again

When running cmake, additionally pass the -DWITH_XRM=ON flag, this will force enable xrm support. If you are familiar with it, you can also use cmake to change the WITH_XRM variable to ON

answered Jan 17 at 18:00

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There are several ways to solve this problem. I see you are using the build.sh script. Here the easiest way is to pass the -f flag to the script when running it, like so: build.sh -f

This will force polybar to completely reconfigure itself and thus also detect the xrm dependency.

If you are not using the build.sh script, the remaining two ways are to either

Delete the build dir (this is what build.sh -f also does) and run cmake and make again

When running cmake, additionally pass the -DWITH_XRM=ON flag, this will force enable xrm support. If you are familiar with it, you can also use cmake to change the WITH_XRM variable to ON

answered Jan 17 at 18:00

Patrick Ziegler

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There are several ways to solve this problem. I see you are using the build.sh script. Here the easiest way is to pass the -f flag to the script when running it, like so: build.sh -f

This will force polybar to completely reconfigure itself and thus also detect the xrm dependency.

If you are not using the build.sh script, the remaining two ways are to either

Delete the build dir (this is what build.sh -f also does) and run cmake and make again

When running cmake, additionally pass the -DWITH_XRM=ON flag, this will force enable xrm support. If you are familiar with it, you can also use cmake to change the WITH_XRM variable to ON

answered Jan 17 at 18:00

Patrick Ziegler

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There are several ways to solve this problem. I see you are using the build.sh script. Here the easiest way is to pass the -f flag to the script when running it, like so: build.sh -f

This will force polybar to completely reconfigure itself and thus also detect the xrm dependency.

If you are not using the build.sh script, the remaining two ways are to either

Delete the build dir (this is what build.sh -f also does) and run cmake and make again

When running cmake, additionally pass the -DWITH_XRM=ON flag, this will force enable xrm support. If you are familiar with it, you can also use cmake to change the WITH_XRM variable to ON

answered Jan 17 at 18:00

Patrick Ziegler

There are several ways to solve this problem. I see you are using the build.sh script. Here the easiest way is to pass the -f flag to the script when running it, like so: build.sh -f

This will force polybar to completely reconfigure itself and thus also detect the xrm dependency.

If you are not using the build.sh script, the remaining two ways are to either

Delete the build dir (this is what build.sh -f also does) and run cmake and make again

When running cmake, additionally pass the -DWITH_XRM=ON flag, this will force enable xrm support. If you are familiar with it, you can also use cmake to change the WITH_XRM variable to ON

answered Jan 17 at 18:00

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