Hi guys,

Is there any way where i can program a widget to display the status of different services. This widget should also be able to auto-update the service status if the service is being toggled with.

Regards.

What distro/version?

Suggest you read the forum rules/how to ask questions - for Ubuntu you can use screenlets; for RHEL like distros gdesklets.

Hi,

im sorry, i did do a research on gdesklet, but i cant seem to find a tutorial on how to create a gdesklet widget. and im using Fedora 13 and running an xfce UI.

Any intro on how to start off on programming a gdesklet widget?

Hi

There's not a lot of reading material out there on gdesklets; what I did was install gdesklets and front it with Conky (at the suggestion of one of the LQ Forum guru's) - which worked out quite nicely. There's a lot of stuff you can read as well as sample conky config files you can try out (Google is your friend). All I did was install gdesklets and enable a few basic features.

Not sure if you're using GNOME/KDE; what I've also found is that KDE has by default a whole lot of cool widgets that you can add to your desktop - maybe check those out as well.

Okay, thanks.

however now i encounter a new problem, where i cant even do a 'gdesklets start' in the terminal, it shows:

No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gdesklets", line 3, in <module>
from main import client, DISPLAY, HOME, USERHOME
File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
import utils
File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
import gtk
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
_init()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display

any ideas how to solve this ?

You need to run it whilst logged into the GUI (that is run level 5) - not a remote terminal session - the error is given because you're running it from an SSH session into your machine