Unable to run any gdesklets

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:31:24 +0200
> 
> V ne, 03. 10. 2004 v 21:16, Kevin Oberman pise:
> 
> > I recently decided that gdesklets looked interesting and decided to try
> > a few.
> >
> > I installed gdesklets-weather and gdesklets-goodweather and noticed that
> > gdesklets was added to my accessories menu. Selecting this fires up a
> > gdesklets process, but I don't see anything visible. If I try to start
> > from the command line (gdesklets GoodWeather), I just get the following
> > on my terminal:
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets:65: DeprecationWarning: the 'argc' parameter is optional and deprecated
> >   client.set_restart_command(1, [sys.argv[0]])
> > gDesklets 0.26.2
> > Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 The gDesklets Team
> >
> > This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
> >
> > And, I get a window stating:
> > Could not add display
> >
> > The display could not be added because the file does not exist.
> >
> > I have no idea what this means. I have found little documentation on the
> > use of gdesklets, either.
> >
> > Any ideas on what is wrong or where I can read up on this?
> 
> Well, adding of desklets to the desktop is not very intuitive.
> You have to locate the .display file on your hard drive (look under
> /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/Displays/ and then run gdesklets with
> full path to the .display file as an argument.

Thanks! It's working now.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634