Lightweight Eyecandy with adesklets

[ketnoe]

ok.

My screen flickers when I do a test.
I'm lost as to what to do next. I don't seem to be able to figure out anything when I do
info adesklets --help
or
info adesklets

help? thanks.

[deblike]

You don't see anything when execute
$ adesklets
or
$ adesklets --nautilus

because adesklets by itself is just a framework where desklets will run, it has no graphical interface whatsoever.
To get any desklet working (and showing) you should register it with adesklets framework.
Let's say:
You have already downloaded and decompresed some desklet in your /home, so next you should type something like this:
$ /home/user/desklet-0.1/desklet.py

then choose to register it, to have it working next time you run adesklets framework with:
$ adesklets
or
$ adesklets --nautilus

I'm using "adesklets --nautilus" here because it's what I use, if you use kde, replace --nautilus with --kde.

[raul_]

I did everythink the "book" says, and nothing happens..

[Gio2k]

The newest version on adesklets homepage is 0.6.1, the newest ubuntu repository version is 0.5.2 or so. Any way of updating adesklets?

[Heril]

Good guide, and following the first method had no problems. However, instructions involving the graphical installer and configuring the desklets is lacking.

[hopstah]

VERY IMPORTANT TIP FOR KDE USERS!!!!!

i found this in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=94782

well, i have no idea (eg, never used them) but looking at the faq of adesklets

As on adesklets 0.4.12, supported window managers in that category are:

    * KDE: for versions >= 3.4.1 (earlier versions untested). You need to turn on “Control Center -> Desktop -> Show icons on desktop -> Allow programs in desktop window”, or to turn off the “Show icons on desktop” altogether1.
    * Nautilus
    * ROX-Filer: only preliminary support for now
    * Xfce4
    * xffm-desktop: only preliminary support for now

and not seeing gnome there, i could think its g(nome)desklets...

[sktfeelsdapper]

Still doesn't work for me, either way updates or not.
The screen flickers and then nothing happens.
So...
uninstall!

[phstpok]

I get a config error, which I think points to a problem with my python install, after following all instructions, adesklets gets "Configuration file parsing error `syntax error', stopped at line 8."

Tried removing adesklets & python then re-installing. Everything leads to the same error.

[raul_]

Lol..i actually got it to work. Most of the desklets give error but i did what deblike said. I registered the desklets (i was only testing it and it gave me the flickering problem) and then "adesklets --nautilus" and the thing just popped up =)

[kno712]

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 =)

Hello,

Thanks for this instructions;

I tried several times with sudo checkinstall and it didn't work; I got this messages:

creating /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets
copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/adesklets/__init__.py -> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets
error: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/adesklets/__init__.py: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sukno/downloads/adesklets-0.6.1/scripting/python'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sukno/downloads/adesklets-0.6.1/scripting/python'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sukno/downloads/adesklets-0.6.1/scripting'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Then I decided to do a sudo make install and now it is installed.


Why sudo checkinstall doesn't work? If someone has the answer then I will post the deb file here for everybody.