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purple12

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 73

I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

Hello,

I built w/ Arch about a week ago and love it!  I had fun setting the system up under RAID with the help of a buddy who's a longtime Arch fan [see script output below for post-irrelevant stats].  I'm ecstatic with the performance of the system and the straightfoward setup.  Thanks very much to all the contributors for the great docs.

OK...now...

how shall I put this..uh...er...HELP!!!
I installed Compiz-Fusion a couple days ago and find the desktop environment possibilities endlessly entertaining.  I had a really handy little clock and weather widget when I was in my XP world, so I went down the Gdesklets path, hoping to replicate these useful elements in my Arch world.  I think I have the requisite installs, but as you can see from the app log below, it's not getting what it wants.  Any help from other users who've perhaps experienced the same issue would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Output from command line launch attempt
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gdesklets", line 3, in ?
    from main import client, DISPLAY, HOME, USERHOME
  File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 3, in ?
    import utils
  File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 3, in ?
    import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk

Version Checks
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pacman -Q gtk
gtk 1.2.10-8

pacman -Q python
python 2.5.2-5

pacman -Q python24
python24 2.4.5-3

pacman -Q gtk2
gtk2 2.12.11-2

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Irrelevant RAID Stuff
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...here's the output from a little script I wrote that just parses mdadm queries...

Checking RAID Arrays...

/dev/md0 /BOOT is...
          State : clean
     Array Size : 240832 (235.23 MiB 246.61 MB)
  Used Dev Size : 240832 (235.23 MiB 246.61 MB)

/dev/md1 /ROOT is...
          State : clean
     Array Size : 29302272 (27.94 GiB 30.01 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 9767424 (9.31 GiB 10.00 GB)
     Chunk Size : 64K

/dev/md2 /SWAP is...
          State : active
     Array Size : 3919360 (3.74 GiB 4.01 GB)
     Chunk Size : 64K

/dev/md3 /HOME is...
          State : active
     Array Size : 1432186368 (1365.84 GiB 1466.56 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 477395456 (455.28 GiB 488.85 GB)
     Chunk Size : 64K

Last edited by purple12 (2008-08-16 09:27:05)

robmaloy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

Re: I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

is pygtk installed?  (it should be if you installed gdesklets from pacman)

Last edited by robmaloy (2008-08-16 10:01:23)

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

You're better off switching to something else. gdesklets never worked for me either.

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-08-16 11:56:02)

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purple12

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 73

Re: I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

Thanx for the replies.  Yep.  pygtk installed.  if i get bored with trying to make 'em work, any recommendation for an alternative that's compatible w/ compiz-fusion?

pacman -Q pygtk
pygtk 2.12.1-1

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

screenlets?

purple12

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 73

Re: I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

hey...'adesklets' looks very promising.  community package, too!  i'll try it later...thanx again everybody.

purple12

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 73

Re: I will Enable Gdesklets if it Kills Me!

THANK YOU mfolnovic!!
Screenlets installed in approximately 30 seconds are are GORGEOUS!!!