gdesklets fails to start with this error: Could not connect to gnome-session. GNOME session management will not be available for this application. gDesklets 0.25 Copyright 2003 Martin Grimme, Christian Meyer, Jesse Andrews This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. I can not get any desklet/display to appear. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-rc2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-rc2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr composite crypt cups curl dri dvd emacs encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib jpeg libg++ libgda libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nocardbus nocd oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb video_cards_radeon wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Can you try gdesklets-0.26 please ? Thanks
this is not a bug, gdesklets has started. you now must add displays gdesklets /usr/share/gdesklets/Display/.... gdesklets does not have any "default" displayes, try emergeing any of the desklet-* pcakages and running their .display files with gdesklets. enjoy
I realize I need displays, the point is they never show up. $ gdesklets /usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/Clock/gnomeclock.display Could not connect to gnome-session. GNOME session management will not be available for this application. gDesklets 0.26 Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Martin Grimme, Christian Meyer, Jesse Andrews This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. OPTS:: [] REST:: ['/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/Clock/gnomeclock.display'] and no clock appears anywhere
0.26.1 seems to fix this. see bug 44960 Christo
I'm still getting the same behavior under 0.26.1
What version of python to you have installed? Does this still occur?
I am still having this problem. Python version: 2.3.3
i tried it on 3 different systems (all x86), and it works fine. all i did was emerging all desklet-plugins in portage and then: gdesklet& gdesklet /usr/share/gdesklet/blablabla click on the (xfce4-)desktop where it should be placed
The problem was I was attempting to launch gdesklets with a display as an argument (gdesklets whatever.display) instead of first launching gdesklets without any arguments and then adding displays. Myabe there should be an error message about this?
