Comments on: Howto install and configure gDesklets in Ubuntu hardy

By: jayson109

jayson109 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:28:05 +0000

jayson@jayson-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install gdesklets gdesklets-data
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to correct the problem.
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Initialising package states… Done
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to correct the problem.
jayson@jayson-desktop:~$

By: alex

alex — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:09:40 +0000

if you are using the desktop effects (compiz) you may as well use screenlets instead of gdesklets. It’s more stable and a bit better supported.

By: suCRACK

suCRACK — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:17:41 +0000

how may a do to overcome that issue posted before?

Thanks a lot for your fast response

By: suCRACK

suCRACK — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:52:22 +0000

sucrack@kernel-panic:~$ gdesklets
Iniciando el servidor gdesklets…
Se conectó con el servidor en 3055 milisegundos.

==========================================================[07/04/08-11:44:37]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 393
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 268 parse_command
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 177 __open_profile
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 167 __client_daemon
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 208 set_remove_command
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 38 __send
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 75 recv
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py

[---] 70 chunk = “”
[---] 71 while (True):
[---] 72 try:
[---] 73 length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---] 74 except:
[ERR]> 75 raise XDRError
[---] 76
[---] 77 if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---] 78
[---] 79 flag = s.recv(1)
[---] 80 if (flag == _CONT): continue
[---] 81

sucrack@kernel-panic:~$

By: Wintermute

Wintermute — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:42:09 +0000

Nice article!

I have a problem with the gdesklets on ubuntu hardy. When I press Super - D (show desktop) all my applications and my desklets hide. I always thought that the desklets should stay on the dekstop :O. Any way to work around this?

Thanks!