Help with input-remapper

[branja6]

Hey, folks. I’m having some issues with the input remapper app.

I started it from the terminal and this is what I got -

input-remapper-gtk
input-remapper-gtk 2.0.1 568f56cdb438f4ad6db9e96b2900d1228ea736ee https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper
python-evdev 1.7.1
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/messages/message_data.py:45: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence ‘\d’
all_matches = list(re.finditer(“(\d+, )+”, string))
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/controller.py:304: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence ‘\d’
match = re.search(" copy \d$", name)
Done
Connected to the service
Loaded config from “/home/branja/.config/input-remapper-2/config.json”
WARNING: HandlerDisabled entry failed: “nothing connected to <bound method CodeEditor._on_gtk_changed of <inputremapper.gui.components.editor.CodeEditor object at 0x75e13d932390>>”
WARNING: HandlerDisabled exit failed: “nothing connected to <bound method CodeEditor._on_gtk_changed of <inputremapper.gui.components.editor.CodeEditor object at 0x75e13d932390>>”
Found “Sleep Button”, “Video Bus”, “AT Translated Set 2 keyboard”, “SYNA30AF:00 06CB:CE07 Mouse”, “Wireless hotkeys”, “XiaoMi Mi Wireless Mouse”, “V:NO_NO_NONE Fantech Leviosa”, “HP WMI hotkeys”
Loading group “XiaoMi Mi Wireless Mouse”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/reader_client.py”, line 147, in _read
self._update_groups(message_body)
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/reader_client.py”, line 292, in _update_groups
self.publish_groups()
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/reader_client.py”, line 282, in publish_groups
self.message_broker.publish(GroupsData(groups))
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/messages/message_broker.py”, line 66, in publish
self._publish_all()
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/messages/message_broker.py”, line 91, in _publish_all
self._publish(*self._messages.popleft())
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/messages/message_broker.py”, line 80, in _publish
listener(data)
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/controller.py”, line 131, in _on_groups_changed
self.load_group(group_key)
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/controller.py”, line 480, in load_group
self.data_manager.load_group(group_key)
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/data_manager.py”, line 305, in load_group
self.publish_injector_state()
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/data_manager.py”, line 158, in publish_injector_state
self.message_broker.publish(InjectorStateMessage(self.get_state()))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inputremapper/gui/data_manager.py”, line 578, in get_state
return self._daemon.get_state(self.active_group.key)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pydbus/proxy_method.py”, line 72, in call
ret = instance._bus.con.call_sync(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-dbus-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable (2)

Does anyone know what went wrong? Why isn’t it working?

[ricklinux]

Did you install and start the service?

yay -S input-remapper-git
sudo systemctl enable --now input-remapper

[branja6]

Yes, but it’s still the same.
I even restarted the service and also, stopped and started it several times.

[d-air1]

I downloaded it to see how it would go for me.

The first time I ran it from the terminal it spawned a gui input box asking for my password. I gave it and got the same error you did. It didn’t launch. I launched it once from the desktop file and it asked for my password again, but this time the gui successfully launched.

The third time I launched it from the terminal it asked for my password once more and it threw threw the same error, but the gui still launched.

[branja6]

The GUI launches for me as well, but the app doesn’t work (it works on any other OS I tried so far, and it used to work on Arch/Endeavour OS).
I just don’t know if it’s a me-only problem or a package issue…

[manuel]

What’s the contents of that desktop file?

[Schlaefer]

Update: Patched glib2 is available in official repo.

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There are bug reports pointing to issues with the current glib2 version (not only with input-remapper).

Roll back glib2 to 2.82.2 and give it a try. There’s also a patched glib2 in core-testing, which works here too.

[branja6]

Seems to be working. Thanks a lot everyone!
I can use input-remapper again