Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:31:24 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to run any gdesklets Message-ID: <1096831884.38663.6.camel@hood.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <20041003191620.7C5A45D0A@ptavv.es.net> References: <20041003191620.7C5A45D0A@ptavv.es.net>
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V ne, 03. 10. 2004 v 21:16, Kevin Oberman p=ED=B9e:
> I recently decided that gdesklets looked interesting and decided to try
> a few.
>=20
> 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
>=20
> This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
>=20
> And, I get a window stating:
> Could not add display
>=20
> The display could not be added because the file does not exist.
>=20
> I have no idea what this means. I have found little documentation on the
> use of gdesklets, either.
>=20
> 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.
--=20
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
And please, please, please add COMMENTS to your code. Reading
uncommented PERL is like chewing on chunks of broken glass,
only without the tasty blood sauce to go with it.
-- John Rowan in rec.games.roguelike.adom
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