I installed pygtk, pyorbit, gDesklet, gnome-python, libgtop from sources and with prefix=/usr. All successfully installed in my system. Now, I tried one of sensor, that is psi-pager. Unpack into ~/.gdesklet/Displays/. Then I ran this command: gdesklets ~/.gdesklet/Displays/psi-pagerblabla.display. I got this message:

/usr/bin/gdesklets:65: DeprecationWarning: the 'argc' parameter is optional and deprecated
client.set_restart_command(1, [sys.argv[0]])
gDesklets 0.26.1
Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Martin Grimme, Christian Meyer, Jesse Andrews

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

Nothing showed up in my desktop. Any idea?

Have you run gdesklets once then tried to run gdesklets your.desklet ?

You have to run gdesklets by itself the first time.

Yes, I had

The psi-pager has a specific theme (psi)... did you install that as well? According to the download page for psi-pager: Requirements/Dependancies: Psi-disp-themes -- which probably means the PSI Display package on the Psi sensors and displays package page.

Have you tried any other (non-themed) sensors, like the StarterBar, or CornerXMMS?

Yup, tried and still failed. I give up....... Maybe gdesklets isn't for me..... Btw thank you.....

Well, Don't give up yet... It will work... Let us think

I have spend more than two hours for this things. I just cann't see any reason I have to spend more time to install this eye candy.

Thanks, dude!

Yes, I successfully runned them though only for .display files.

I'm not sure I follow... Did you successfully run a desklet?

I tried a long time to get that <excuse> crap running and found out that a lot of applets doesn't run here..
Try some other gdesklet applets..

Yes, but you know that desklet has two kind. Display and sensors. I can only use Display. I am still learning how to use it.......

<polite giggle>

Let me clarify this...

Sensors are used to extrapolate data from the system. Such data may include network usage info, cpu speed, temperature, users logged on, or even web data from a website like weather. A senser just supplies data.

Displays are the nice pieces of eyecandy that _display_ the information from the sensors.

If a display requires a sensor (like the psi suite) , it may come with it, or you may have to download them.

I put my displays and sensors in the following places

/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/
/usr/share/gdesklets/Sensors/

Also... check out my desktop at


I haven't tried, but supposedly you can put them in your ~/.gdesklets directory.

Check out my desktop here : Screenshot1

I hope this helps clarify things a bit.