Fluxbox, I need help?

[jmr0311]

Hi Steve, Thank you for reply,

I went to terminal and type down what you saud and I gat this error :

 

[jmr0311@home-desktop jmr0311]$ urpmi glibc-devel && urpmi libgtk+2.0_0-devel

bash: urpmi: command not found

[jmr0311@home-desktop jmr0311]$

 

Then I went to MDK Control Center and try to use the installation tool but when I search for those packages nothing comes up with the names you give me.

 

Javi

[liquidzoo]

You have to run the urpmi command as root.

 

Also, to set your background: If you have Eterm installed, you can set the wallpaper like this:

 

Esetroot -s /path/to/wallpaper.jpg

 

You can have that command in your ~/.fluxbox/startup file as well, so it will automatically set your wallpaper on boot.

[jmr0311]

Liquidzoo, I find out that I have to run it as root , Thank you for the help, but when I typed and press enter it says that everything is already install. Also how you set up a cooker source using "easy urpmi".

 

Javi

Edited August 4, 2004 by jmr0311

[liquidzoo]

Head over to the easy urpmi site to get the sources lined up. Then follow the Urpmi FAQ that we have on this site to get everything set up.

 

As a follow-up to a question you asked earlier: Yes, it is true that cooker can break your system. As Steve said, it's best to stick with the stable versions of programs that are found in the Mandrake main repos for the current version of Mandrake.

[jmr0311]

Luis101, When you see this post, I will like to ask you a question regarding the start-script sample you provide in the previous post. When you said script you mean that I have to save the file as " .sh " (eg. startup.sh) , because I did the startup file as a text file only but it never change my wallpaper. I had to go to the " init " file and change it there.

 

Javi

[jmr0311]

Bump

[Jet2k5]

jmr0311  Posted Today, 05:10 AM

  Luis101, When you see this post, I will like to ask you a question regarding the start-script sample you provide in the previous post. When you said script you mean that I have to save the file as " .sh " (eg. startup.sh) , because I did the startup file as a text file only but it never change my wallpaper. I had to go to the " init " file and change it there.

 

Javi

 

No you don't save it as .sh You have to open it up in a Text Editor like gedit, kwrite, and so on. And when you make the necessary changes just hit the ' Save ' button . And that's all you have to do, as for the wallpaper I'm sorry if I said that it goes in the Startup file but yes it does go in the init file. That tells me you must of read iphitus FAQ which is very good. Good luck and enjoy fluxbox I sure as heck love it.

 

-Luis

[jmr0311]

Hi guys, Something really strange happen. After being fighting for the last couple weeks trying to get gDeklets to install in my system. I did in terminal this " locate gdesklets " and to my surprise it came back with a whole bunch of hits. Like this ones;

 

[jmr0311@home-desktop jmr0311]$ locate gdesklets

/home/jmr0311/etc/gconf/schemas/gdesklets-display-thumbnail.schemas

/home/jmr0311/usr/bin/gdesklets-display-thumbnailer

/home/jmr0311/usr/lib/pkgconfig/gdesklets-core.pc

/home/jmr0311/usr/man/man1/gdesklets.1.gz

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/mime/packages/gdesklets.xml

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/mime/application/x-gdesklets-display.xml

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/mime-info/gdesklets.keys

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/mime-info/gdesklets.mime

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/x-gdesklets-display.png

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/application-registry/gdesklets.applications

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/data

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/RemoteSocket.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/Starter.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/Control.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/DisplayList.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/client.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/__init__.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/main/remotecommands.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/targetregistry.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetGroup.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/DataTarget.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/Plug.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/DisplayContainer.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/DisplayTarget.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetAlignment.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/ContainerTarget.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetFrame.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetImage.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetEntry.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetMenuItem.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/GlassWindow.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetLabel.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetArray.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetCanvas.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/Window.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/Display.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetExpander.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetGauge.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/DisplayConfigurator.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetPlotter.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetBonoboControl.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/__init__.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/layouters.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetMenu.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/display/TargetHTML.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/i18n.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/datatypes.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/_svgmodule.la

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/_svgmodule.so

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/WindowSnapper.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/units.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/BinTree.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/_ewmhmodule.la

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/_ewmhmodule.so

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/singleton.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/TypeConverter.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/TargetSettings.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/_systraymodule.la

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/_systraymodule.so

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/dialog.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/installer.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/GConfWatcher.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/systray.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/TilingImage.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/pwstore.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/Observable.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/vfs.py

/home/jmr0311/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/BGWatcher.py

 

And I also found some in this directories;

 

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-weather-0.24/INSTALL

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-weather-0.24/README

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-bugzilla-0

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-bugzilla-0/README

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-linuxtag-0.11

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-linuxtag-0.11/INSTALL

/usr/share/doc/gdesklets-linuxtag-0.11/README

/usr/share/applications/gdesklets.desktop

/usr/share/pixmaps/gdesklets.png

/usr/share/icons/large/gdesklets.png

/usr/share/icons/mini/gdesklets.png

/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/x-gdesklets-display.png

/usr/share/icons/gdesklets.png

/usr/share/mime-info/gdesklets.keys

/usr/share/mime-info/gdesklets.mime

/usr/share/application-registry/gdesklets.applications

/usr/share/gdesklets

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/acpi

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/acpi/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/acpi/gfx/battery.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/acpi/acpi.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/waterbath.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-e.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-n.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-ne.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-nw.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-s.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-se.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-sw.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg-w.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/bg.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/gfx/preview.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/starterbar/starterbar.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/gnomeclock.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/clock.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/gnomeclock.xcf

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/osXclock.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/pocketwatch.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/pocketwatch.xcf

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gfx/rafclock.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/pocket-watch.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/gnomeclock.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/osXclock.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/plainclock.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/clock/rafclock.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-left.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/bar.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/bg.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-bottomleft.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-bottom.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-bottomright.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-right.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-top.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-topleft.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/border-topright.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/trans.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/gfx/wifi.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/wireless/Wireless.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/expander.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/Info.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/Info_.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/SysInfo.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/_hdd.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/bg.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/bg_g.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/cpu.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/e.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/gauge-bg.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/gauge.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/hdd.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/memory.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/memory_.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/n.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/ne.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/network.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/nw.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/s.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/se.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/sw.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/gfx/w.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/sysinfo/sysinfo.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/textmask-br0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/bar0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/bar1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/body-br.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/bot-br0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/eject0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/eq0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/eq1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/gauge.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/ml0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/ml1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/next0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/pause0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/pause1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/pl0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/pl1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/play0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/play1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/prev0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/rep0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/rep1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/rnd0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/rnd1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/stop0.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/gfx/textmask-br1.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/cornerxmms/cornerxmms-bottomright.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/gfx

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/gfx/action.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/gfx/bg.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/gfx/frame.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/gfx/logo.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/gfx/preview.png

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/rssgrab-orig.display

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rssgrab/rssgrab-psi.display

 

What all this hits means ?, That some how the gDesklets install was successfull after all. Now how can I start building this little eye catching icons to make my Fluxbox a better please to be.

 

Javi :o

Edited August 5, 2004 by jmr0311

[liquidzoo]

It may have been successful, but I'm not sure. I would still try installing it from rpm, as that will work for sure and install all of the dependencies that you will need.

 

The new version isn't complete yet. I'd wait till the final to install 0.30.

[spiedra]

Add your sources and do from a console as root:

 

urpmi gdesklets

 

Or go to software manager and install it that way.

[jmr0311]

I did use MDK Control Center and did a search for gDesklets. I got some hits and I went ahead and installed them. I think, out of the three different type of installation I was trying to do, this one appears to be the only one gone well. Also I found this file in the internet

" gdesklets-0.26.2-1.dag.src.rpm " and I run it too.

 

When I do the urpmi thing in console this is what I get;

[root@home-desktop jmr0311]# urpmi gdesklets

Everything already installed

[root@home-desktop jmr0311]#

 

Javi

Edited August 5, 2004 by jmr0311

[liquidzoo]

That means it worked. Now you can install the desklets themselves from the gdesklets website.

[Jet2k5]

Once you decide what you want it's very easy to run them.

 

Let say for example you get the GoodWeather gdesklet, untar the file which I believe its a .bz2, then cd into the GoodWeather directory and run something like this,

 

gdesklets GoodWeather.display

 

This would run the GoodWeather gdesklet for you, for other gdesklets it might be different make sure to add them to your startup file to have them open up every time you log in.

 

-Luis

Edited August 5, 2004 by Luis101

[jmr0311]

Hi Luis101,

 

I was trying to install one of the weather sensor. I read that you need to pieces to install Desklets. Ones is the sensor and the other one is the display. Lets say that I want to use the weather display GoodWeather-psi, according to their website this desklets is only a display with no sensor so I download another weather desklets that include the sensor like psi-weather and I try to use this sensor with the other display that's when I get the error explain below. Can I do this ? .

 

[jmr0311@home-desktop psi-weather]$ ./Install_Weather_Sensor.bin

 

Everything goes as expected, it give me the window that says that the sensor was install successfully. But when I'm tried to do the next step:

 

[jmr0311@home-desktop psi-weather]$ gdesklets start

gDesklets 0.26

Copyright © 2003, 2004 Martin Grimme, Christian Meyer, Jesse Andrews

 

This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

 

OPTS:: [] REST:: ['start']

Then I do this in command line;

[jmr0311@home-desktop psi-weather]$ cd /home/jmr0311/.gdesklets/Displays/GoodWeather-psi/

[jmr0311@home-desktop GoodWeather-psi]$ gdesklets GoodWeather-psi.display

gDesklets 0.26

Copyright © 2003, 2004 Martin Grimme, Christian Meyer, Jesse Andrews

 

This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

 

OPTS:: [] REST:: ['GoodWeather-psi.display']

[jmr0311@home-desktop GoodWeather-psi]$

 

But it give me an error that says ;

 

Could not add display " The display could not be added because the file doesn't exist "

 

When I do this combination of sensor and display I get the error.

 

Javi

Edited August 5, 2004 by jmr0311

[Jet2k5]

Don't get the psi, get the normal one and try again. And if it still doesn't work then try running the, gdesklets GoodWeather.display in your home directory.

 

-Luis