From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 01:51:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8425E16A4CE; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:51:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B22143D39; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:51:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:51:54 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id D7AA95D04; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 18:51:53 -0700 (PDT) To: pav@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:31:24 +0200." <1096831884.38663.6.camel@hood.oook.cz> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:51:53 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20041004015153.D7AA95D04@ptavv.es.net> cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to run any gdesklets X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 01:51:54 -0000 > From: Pav Lucistnik > 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