Lightweight Eyecandy with adesklets

[zarathustra]

What version of Adesklets is in the repositories? It looks like the version is older than the current one available for download off Sourceforge.

[raul_]

I hope this is not a very noobish question but.... when i type adesklets -i in the terminal...nothing happens..i mean, it happens, but i don't know what to type on the prompt =\

root@raul:/home/raul # adesklets -i
adesklets 0.4.8 (unknown time), on an unknown OS
[i386-linux-gcc 4.0.gcc-opt (GCC) 4.0.0 20050413 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0-0pre11)]
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[yabbadabbadont]

I hope this is not a very noobish question but.... when i type adesklets -i in the terminal...nothing happens..i mean, it happens, but i don't know what to type on the prompt =\

root@raul:/home/raul # adesklets -i
adesklets 0.4.8 (unknown time), on an unknown OS
[i386-linux-gcc 4.0.gcc-opt (GCC) 4.0.0 20050413 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0-0pre11)]
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I don't believe that the 0.4.8 version supports the installer (-i) option. You need a newer version for that. I'll have to go read the changelog at sourceforge to be sure though. I'll edit my post with the needed version when I find it.

EDIT: Looks like the curses based installer wasn't added until 0.5.0.

[raul_]

this error ocurred while compiling adesklets

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.4
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages
checking for Python include path... find: /usr/include/python/: No such file or directory

configure: error: cannot find Python include path


but i already have the latest version of python (i think) and i don't think that's the problem...

[raul_]

Ok got it. Fond this on another forum:

nozey
August 25th, 2005, 09:03 PM
Ok ... got it working already.

I did this:

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libreadline5-dev libimlib2 libimlib2-dev

And got it working. =)

So ... here goes the steps i made to compile adesklets:

$ wget http://ftp.litnet.lt/pub/ubuntu/pool...buntu2_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i python-dev_2.4.1-0ubuntu2_all.deb
$ sudo apt-get install python2.4-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libreadline5-dev libimlib2 libimlib2-dev
$ cd adesklets/dir
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Hope it helps someone. \o/


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U can just run synaptic and install those libs, and it should be enough =)

[rackne]

i've just installed adesklets. however when type

adesklets --nautilus

nothing happes. can anyone tell me what's wrong and how to fix it?

[raul_]

I'm sorry i must be very stupid...i installed 2 desklets, registered them, and then i try to run adesklets by typing adesklets in the terminal and nothing happens..i know it's running because i can see the process id when i do "ps aux" but the desklets don't load...i think it's the same problem that rackne has. Everyone else seems to get it to work except me =\

[rackne]

it seems like we got the same problem. i really dont know what's wrong. i've asked google, i been to 3 diffrent ubuntu forums and couldnt find the nature of the problem with adesklets. although i suspect that gdesklet might have something to do with that stragne issue coz b4 i had adesklets i'd installed gdesklets first. oh well, i'll try on more time maybe i'll find something on the net if i fail i guess im gonna wait for edgy to come out. hope that the stragne bug (if it is a bug) will be fixed.

[raul_]

Yeap..and awkwardly, when u install a desklet, it should create a folder named .adesklets in your home dir (i read that) but i checked and there's no such folder in my home dir

[yabbadabbadont]

Yeap..and awkwardly, when u install a desklet, it should create a folder named .adesklets in your home dir (i read that) but i checked and there's no such folder in my home dir

Actually, it should create a file called .adesklets in your home directory that contains all the registered desklets. If you use the adesklets installer to install a desklet, it will usually create a directory called .desklets in your home directory and then it will put the desklet into a subdirectory of that based on the name of the desklet. For example, this is what I have on my system from using the adesklets installer:

/home/bubba $ cat .adesklets 
# This is adesklets configuration file.
#
# It gets automatically updated every time a desklet main window
# parameter is changed, so avoid manual modification whenever
# a desklet is running. In fact, manual changes to this file
# should rarely be needed. See `info adesklets'.

[/home/bubba/.desklets/weatherforecast-0.2.0/weatherforecast.py]
id=0 screen=0 x=0 y=638

[/home/bubba/.desklets/doityourself-0.4.1/doityourself.py]
id=0 screen=0 x=0 y=0

/home/bubba $ ls -l .desklets/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 7 bubba users 4096 Sep 21 18:24 doityourself-0.4.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 bubba users 4096 Sep 25 14:46 weatherforecast-0.2.0