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williamjonah
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 Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: How do I start adesklets??!? |
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I just emerged adesklets, and ran adesklets_install.... I installed a few of the desklets that I wanted and then ran adesklets, and nothing happened..... obviously i am doing someting wrong, can someone please help... how do I start these little turds off? Any help is appreciated.
Will 
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Iced-Tux
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
you have to register your adesklets. So run the python scripts of your desklets it will ask whether you want to test odr register it.
Register --> run adesklets --> new desklet shows up 
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williamjonah
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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New problem, I am trying to get the mailer to work, and for some reason, it doesnt want to check my mail. I keep getting a connection error. I posted below, my config.txt...
| Code: | id0 = {'background_color': '1E1E1E',
'background_gradient_cutpoint': 40,
'background_opacity': 100,
'caption': 'Geekbin Mail',
'caption_color': 'FFFFFF',
'caption_font': 'Vera',
'caption_font_size': 10,
'click_anytime': True,
'delay': 60,
'host': 'mail.geekbin.net',
'icon_height': 48,
'icon_width': 48,
'icons': ['error.png', 'noemail.png', 'email.png'],
'mailspool': '/dev/null',
'message_color': None,
'message_font': None,
'message_font_size': None,
'messages': ['not connected to mail server',
'no new message on mail server',
'1 new message on mail server',
'new messages on mail server'],
'messages_prepend': True,
'method': 'pop3',
'program_on_click': 'thunderbird',
'program_on_new': 'beep.sh',
'ssl': False,
'text_padding': 5,
'user_name': 'POP3 ACCOUNT NAME', <--- I changed it
'user_password': 'PASSWORD FOR POP3 ACCOUNT', <--- I Changed it
'window_never_shrink': False}
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Any help is appreciated. I just want to see anything besides "not connected to mail server". Thanks
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Iced-Tux
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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What is the output when you run the desklet in test mode?
I tried the package available at adesklets.sourceforge.net and it worked fine with both imap4 and pop3 accounts. So perhaps the output of the plugin gives you some information?
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williamjonah
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | delta@localhost ~/.desklets/mailer-0.0.8 $ ./mailer1.py
Do you want to (r)egister this desklet or to (t)est it? t
Now testing...
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If you do not see anything (or just an initial flicker
in the top left corner of your screen), try `--help',
and see the FAQ: `info adesklets'.
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./beep.sh: line 15: /dev/:0: Permission denied |
I tried two different accounts, one worked, but the mail email didnt. the one that worked was pop3, the one that didnt was imap4. Any ideas why I could be getting "Permissions denied"?? BTW, thanks, I didn't even think to view the output from term. Appreciate the help thus far.
-Will
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Iced-Tux
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:12 am Post subject: |
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Ok I looked into beep.sh:
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#!/bin/sh
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# Written by S.Fourmanoit, 2005
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# Small script, probably not portable across UNIXes,
# That sends a bell character (ascii 0x07) to the first writable terminal
# device (i.e. own by the current user). This has only been tested
# on linux systems, with GNU sed, cut from GNU coretutils, w from
# procps and GNU which. Bourne script by itself should be POSIX
# 1003.2 and 1003.2a compliant.
DEV=`w -hu \`whoami\` | \
sed -n '1{s/[[:space:]]\+/\t/g;p}' | cut -f2`
: ${DEV:=null}
`which echo` -n -e '\a' > /dev/$DEV
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And it seems to me, that whatever terminal device it finds, you havn't the appropriate permissions.
You could leave the beep out in your config.txt OR you can substitute it with your own script e.g where you execute `mpg123 YouGotMailBaby.mp3` or something similiar.
| Quote: | | I tried two different accounts, one worked, but the mail email didnt. the one that worked was pop3, the one that didnt was imap4. Any ideas why I could be getting "Permissions denied |
Does that mean two different user on your system or just two different email accounts?
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williamjonah
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First, to awnser your question, I have two email accounts, one for my website, and the other from aol... (i hate aol, but the wife "has" to have it)
Second, I cp'ed the the mailer-0.0.8 dir and put all of the second email account info into the config and it worked. I was trying to do id0 and id1 in just one config. All I had to do was register the sencond one, and voila!!
I really appreciate your help in this! Talk with you later bud.
Will
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Hi All,
Am I supposed to run adesklets_installer as root? When I run it as a plain user and hit return on a chosen desklet it just says "Downloading weatherforecast desklet..." but nothing much happens thereafter. Am I supposed to run the installer as root?
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| MickKi wrote: | Hi All,
Am I supposed to run adesklets_installer as root? When I run it as a plain user and hit return on a chosen desklet it just says "Downloading weatherforecast desklet..." but nothing much happens thereafter. Am I supposed to run the installer as root? |
No. Run as the user. They take a little while to install. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks.
There was a problem with some missing font, from what I recall. I changed the adesklet file to call a different font and was able to launch it thereafter.
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