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Joe_Arch

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Registered: 2008-11-27

Posts: 67

Anyone got telak working in awesome?

Telak is a module for awesome that let's you display web images on your desktop. I tried to use this, and it worked for about 30 seconds (after I figured out you needed luasocket). But then awesome crashed, and now awesome won't start with the telak code in my rc.lua.  Here's my telak code:

-- telak module, to draw web images on root window
require("telak")

w = telak{ image = "http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg" }
w.screen = 1
w:geometry{ x = 0, y = 0 }

This worked once for 30 seconds, and now it doesn't work at all.

Has anyone had success with telak?

(I'm using 3.2-1 from community)

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: Anyone got telak working in awesome?

(I'm using 3.2-1 from community)

The outdated 3.2.1 package should cause you problems with or without Telak .

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English is not my native language .

s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 208

Re: Anyone got telak working in awesome?

Just an update, awesome 3.2-1 is no longer in repo, its been updated to 3.3pre20090421-1.

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box2: Gentoo (linux-3.17-rc5)
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Joe_Arch

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Registered: 2008-11-27

Posts: 67

Re: Anyone got telak working in awesome?

Thanks guys! I'll give it a shot after updating.

If I want to switch to the git version, is it as simple as installing awesome-git? Or should I uninstall my current version first?