Invest Applet under 12.04 LTS (Cinnamon Desktop) **Can NOT add to panel** ***SOLVED***

[Jay Ridgley]

On 01/05/2013 06:00 AM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:17:23 +0000 (UTC)
> From: sktsee<sktseer at gmail.com>
> To:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Invest Applet under 12.04 LTS (Cinnamon Desktop) **Can
> 	NOT add to	panel**
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> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:12:12 -0600, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>
>> >Folks,
>> >
>> >HAPPY NEW YEAR!
>> >
>> >Under 10.04 LTS and earlier I have used the Invest Applet (2.3 under
>> >10.04), however, even though it is installed (gnome-applets). I have
>> >been unable to add it to the panel or use it any other way. It simply
>> >does not show up under the available items under the drop down add to
>> >panel!
>> >
>> >What do I need to do to get this going???
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >Jay
> You can run the Invest applet in Cinnamon as a stand-alone program. The
> method is very hackish since it relies upon a debugging tool in order to
> make it work. At minimum, you'll need to make sure the gnome-panel
> package is installed. I'm assuming that you are running Ubuntu with
> Cinnamon installed from PPA and not running on Linux Mint. If you're
> running Mint, then I have no idea whether the following will work at all
> for you.
>
> Type this in a terminal
>
> $ panel-test-applets
>
> Select Invest from the drop down list and don't worry about setting the
> window orientation/size or config directory path. Click "Execute" and you
> should see the Invest applet icon in a tiny window appear in the top left
> corner of the desktop. The panel-test program will need to stay open as
> long as you want the applet to run. Like it said, hackish.
>
> If using Invest in its intended way (hosted in a panel) is more important
> to you than using Cinnamon, you could login into a "Gnome Classic"
> session (provided by installing the gnome-session-fallback package) and
> run it from the panel as you did in 10.04. Just remember to press the
> <ALT>key + <right-click> on a panel when you want to add/remove applets.
> Use <Super><ALT> + <right-click> when you want to edit panel preferences.
>
> With either method, you need check the following bug report link about
> the applet in order to get it working correctly.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/972371
>
> In short, you need to copy the applet.py file attached to the bug report
> to /usr/share/pyshared/invest/applet.py (overwriting the original) and
> then issue the following command:
>
> $ sudo pycompile /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/invest/applet.py
>
> If you don't replace the applet.py python script, you won't be able to
> access the Preferences dialog when you right-click on the applet icon.
>
> HTH,
> -- sktsee ------------------------------

THANKS! sktsee (I sent a copy directly to you as well (I get the digest 
version). It has been suggested that I change to the normal list; I guess I 
should do that...

It works just as you stated, but IT WORKS! I can live with that! I will just 
keep it in a workspace all of its own.

Kind regards.
Jay


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