GDesklets Broken

[Pizbit]

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:16:20 -0500, Kevin Mulligan
<kevin at teamindecisive.com> wrote:
> I have tried everything that has been mentioned. I did the Run Program
> -> gdesklets to get the daemon running, then tried typing in/searching
> for a file to open. When attempting to open what I believe is the config
> file, I get "Invalid display file
> '/usr/share/gdesklets/config/ConfigManager.py'".
> 
> I then tried simply going to the file via Computer -> Drives ->
> /usr/share/gdesklets/config/ConfigManager.py, and right clicking and
> telling /usr/bin/gdesklets to open it. This resulted in the same error.
> I even tried usr/bin/gdesklets-thumbnail-viewer. This gives no error,
> but does nothing.

You use the .Display file, not the .py file, in the Display file directory

> 
> I may try downloading the package from the website rather than using the
> Synaptic one. I will report on this either today or tomorrow.
> 
> Any more suggestions are still welcome, of course.
> 
> --Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> Travis Newman wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Mulligan wrote:
> >
> >> I attempted to install GDesklets via Synaptic, along with
> >> Gdesklets-data. Both installed fine. When I go to Applications ->
> >> Accessories -> Gdesklets... I get the spinning 'busy' icon, but
> >> nothing after that. I was expecting a setup page or something like
> >> that to appear, and nothing happens.
> >>
> >> Help?
> >>
> >> --Kevin
> >>
> > There seems to be a problem with versions. gdesklets is at version
> > 0.26.2-5ubuntu1 whereas gdesklets-data is at 0.30.0.14. This is
> > causing some problems for some people on ubuntuforums.org
> >
> >
> >
> 
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