Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:51:53 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to run any gdesklets Message-ID: <20041004015153.D7AA95D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:31:24 %2B0200." <1096831884.38663.6.camel@hood.oook.cz>
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> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> > Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:31:24 +0200 > > V ne, 03. 10. 2004 v 21:16, Kevin Oberman pise: > > > I recently decided that gdesklets looked interesting and decided to try > > a few. > > > > I installed gdesklets-weather and gdesklets-goodweather and noticed that > > gdesklets was added to my accessories menu. Selecting this fires up a > > gdesklets process, but I don't see anything visible. If I try to start > > from the command line (gdesklets GoodWeather), I just get the following > > on my terminal: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets:65: DeprecationWarning: the 'argc' parameter is optional and deprecated > > client.set_restart_command(1, [sys.argv[0]]) > > gDesklets 0.26.2 > > Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 The gDesklets Team > > > > This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > > > And, I get a window stating: > > Could not add display > > > > The display could not be added because the file does not exist. > > > > I have no idea what this means. I have found little documentation on the > > use of gdesklets, either. > > > > Any ideas on what is wrong or where I can read up on this? > > Well, adding of desklets to the desktop is not very intuitive. > You have to locate the .display file on your hard drive (look under > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/Displays/ and then run gdesklets with > full path to the .display file as an argument. Thanks! It's working now. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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