jmr0311 Posted August 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 (edited) Can anyone tell me how to remove gDesklets program complitely from my computer. I'm so confuse that I don't want to fight it anymore. I install several packages ( eg. rpm, src, urpmi, etc ) in my desperates attempt to make it worked. I'm tired of seing the windows of errors showing on my desktop when I'm trying to run Desklets. I just want to do a clean install from URPMI and see how that work, but first I want wipe out any traces of gdesklets. Please help me...!!! . Javi Edited August 6, 2004 by jmr0311 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 (edited) Where did you extract your display sensor? Sounds like it's just a matter of pointing to the correct location of the Goodweather.display file. That path you posted is the actually gdesklets directory that contains all of your preferences so the file would'nt be there unless you extracted them there. Edited August 6, 2004 by spiedra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 If you really want you can unistall the gdesklets and install them via urpmi. But I don't think many people approve of that *cough,cough*Ohms* . But try this remove the GoodWeather gdesklet and re-install it but this time save it to your Documents so that it's easy to access it. I'm not sure what you are doing but when you download the GoodWeather gdesklets untar it and cd into the output folder. Install the sensor by doing ' ./Install_GoodWeather_Sensor.bin ' this should give you that box that says it has been installed then try running once again ' gdesklets GoodWeather.display ' or you can try running ' gdesklets ' from your home directory. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted August 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 This is what Kconsole looks like when I try to untar the GoodWeather package on a different directory. [jmr0311@home-desktop jmr0311]$ cd DESKLETS/[jmr0311@home-desktop DESKLETS]$ tar -jxvf GoodWeather-0.4.tar.bz2 GoodWeather/ tar: GoodWeather: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied GoodWeather/gfx/ tar: GoodWeather/gfx: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory GoodWeather/gfx/bg-weather.png tar: GoodWeather/gfx/bg-weather.png: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/gfx/bg-right.png tar: GoodWeather/gfx/bg-right.png: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/gfx/bg-left.png tar: GoodWeather/gfx/bg-left.png: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/gfx/bg-bar.png tar: GoodWeather/gfx/bg-bar.png: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/README tar: GoodWeather/README: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/GoodWeather.display tar: GoodWeather/GoodWeather.display: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/Install_GoodWeather_Sensor.bin tar: GoodWeather/Install_GoodWeather_Sensor.bin: Cannot open: No such file or directory GoodWeather/INSTALL tar: GoodWeather/INSTALL: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [jmr0311@home-desktop DESKLETS]$ It's denying me the permission of performing that task. Why is that happening ? any ideas... Javi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 probly because the directory is owned by root......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted August 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 What can I do iphitus to have this package let me do the install and also to get gDesklets working ones again. Or do you think I should remove it from my computer and re-install it again. Javi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Well if it is owned by root then cd into the gdesklet folder and type in su which you probably already know and it will prompt you for your root password, put that in and hit Enter and then try running the gdesklets. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Probably better, would be to make another directory as normal user in your home and untar there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 (edited) Thank you Spiedra and Luis101 for your information. What I did was what Spiedra said about creating a directory in user mode and untar the file in there. Ones I did that, everything start working perfect again. But I have two problems still; 1- I still can get gDesklets to run automatically when I go to Fluxbox and display the desklets of weather. If I open Eterm terminal and type " gdesklets ", then the weather Desklets appears. (This is copy of my startup file on the ~/.fluxbox/ directory;) # fluxbox startup-script:# # Lines starting with a '#' are ignored. # You can set your favourite wallpaper here if you don't want # to do it from your style. # fbsetbg -f /usr/share/fluxbox/backgrounds/Underwater.jpg # # This sets a black background /usr/X11R6/bin/bsetroot -solid black # This shows the fluxbox-splash-screen # fbsetbg -C /usr/share/fluxbox/splash.jpg # Other examples. Check man xset for details. # # Turn off beeps: # xset -b # # Increase the keyboard repeat-rate: # xset r rate 195 35 # # Your own fonts-dir: # xset +fp /home/zero/.font # # Your favourite mouse cursor: # xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr # # Change your keymap: # xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap # Applications you want to run with fluxbox. # MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END. # # unclutter -idle 2 & # wmnd & # wmsmixer -w & idesk & gdeskcal & # gaim & Eterm -x -0 --trans --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar=off -f orange & Eterm -x -0 --trans --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar=off -f orange & # acme & gdesklets GoodWeather.display & # And last but not least we start fluxbox. # Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it. exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox # or if you want to keep a log: # exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox -log /home/jmr0311/.fluxbox/log 2- On the Desklets of Good Weather Display, the first day of the forecast shows as high temperature the word " N/A ". How can I fixed that ? What you guys think is the problem with my configuration. I install a few more applications in Fluxbox like idesk, Rox, gDeskcal, etc. but they dont startup either. Javi Edited August 7, 2004 by jmr0311 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 For the start up, just type gdesklets & instead of gdesklets GoodWeather.display & As for the N/A, if you right click on the Weather desklet, click configure you have to congure your city using the appropriate code for it. Once you have it configured to your city then it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Yeah what he said ^ ;) -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Hi guys ones again; I'm still having the problem even after I did the change you suggest. Fluxbox doesn't start the weather desklets automatically. When I open Eterm and type gdesklets the weather desklets appear find with no n/a problem now but if I close the Eterm session the weather desklets disapear from the window. I did some search about startup file for Fluxbox and find this link that talks about it. Then I went to this directory in my system /etc/X11/wmsessioon.d/ and found the file call "16fluxbox" then I open it with kwrite to see the content; NAME=fluxboxICON=fluxbox.png EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox DESC=Windowmanager based on the original blackbox-code SCRIPT: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox After seeing this I went to this directory " /usr/X11R6/bin/ ", and found the " startfluxbox " script in there, so I open it to see how it looks like and this is what I found; #!/bin/sh# $Id: startfluxbox.in,v 1.3 2003/12/06 16:29:21 fluxgen Exp $ if [ -x ~/.fluxbox/startup ]; then exec ~/.fluxbox/startup elif [ -r ~/.fluxbox/startup ]; then exec sh ~/.fluxbox/startup else if [ ! -d ~/.fluxbox ]; then mkdir -p ~/.fluxbox/{backgrounds,styles,pixmaps} fi if [ ! -r ~/.fluxbox/startup ]; then cat << EOF > ~/.fluxbox/startup # fluxbox startup-script: # # Lines starting with a '#' are ignored. # You can set your favourite wallpaper here if you don't want # to do it from your style. # # bsetbg -f ~/pictures/wallpaper.png # # This sets a black background /usr/X11R6/bin/bsetroot -solid black # This shows the fluxbox-splash-screen # fbsetbg -C /usr/share/fluxbox/splash.jpg # Other examples. Check man xset for details. # # Turn off beeps: # xset -b # # Increase the keyboard repeat-rate: # xset r rate 195 35 # # Your own fonts-dir: # xset +fp $HOME/.font # # Your favourite mouse cursor: # xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr # # Change your keymap: # xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap # Applications you want to run with fluxbox. # MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END. # # unclutter -idle 2 & # wmnd & # wmsmixer -w & # idesk & # And last but not least we start fluxbox. # Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it. exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox # or if you want to keep a log: # exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log EOF fi chmod 755 ~/.fluxbox/startup exec ~/.fluxbox/startup fi Can you tell me if there is an error here that is preventing fluxbox from using the startup file I created it in this directory " /home/jmr0311/.fluxbox/. Thanks Javi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 (edited) Hi members; Can anyone in here help me understand this: Another sample of startup file export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin export LC_ALL=nl_NL #export LC_ALL=nl_NL.UTF-8 export DISPLAY=:0.0 #bsetroot -solid black fbsetbg -C ~/.fluxbox/splash.jpg exec &> ~/.fluxbox/log xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap xset -b xset r rate 195 35 # xset +fp $HOME/.font unclutter -idle 2 -jitter 5 & xset s off ( sleep 6 ; idesk & sleep 3 ; ssh_haddock & sleep 3 ; exec emacs --iconic /haddock:documenten/nop & sleep 3 ; xmms & sleep 3 ; firefox & # sleep 3 ; fbpager & # sleep 3 ; xscreensaver & )& #exec /usr/bin/fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log #exec ~/src/fluxbox/src/fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox #-log ~/.fluxbox/log #exec aterm bsetroot -solid black It looks very similar to the Fluxbox startup file sample I posted in the previous post But there are some differences, I will like to understand some of the lines in that script; export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/binexport LC_ALL=nl_NL #export LC_ALL=nl_NL.UTF-8 export DISPLAY=:0.0 Are they command lines that would work for anybody or it's unique. Javi Edited August 7, 2004 by jmr0311 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 remove the: gdesklets GoodWeather.display & line and add: gdesklets & instead. gdesklets will remember what desklets you used last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr0311 Posted August 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 (edited) I did it iphitus, but still doesn't work. Javi PS. Do you guys know where can I find this wallpaper, I like it a lot. Edited August 8, 2004 by jmr0311 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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