Hello!
I'm trying to get gDesklets running on my fluxbox desktop. After looking through many threads on this forum, I decided to install most of the libraries from packages, although the last one, gnome-python compile from sources. ./configure told me that these modules will be build on my system:

gnome
gnome.ui
gnome.canvas
gnome.vfs
gconf
bonobo
bonobo.activation
bonobo.ui

As you can see, there *is* a module gnome.ui, but after I make&checkinstall gnome-python, gDesklets still gives me this error. I suppose, that python can't find that module, so my question is: how to tell it where to look for that particular mod?

Ok, I've just found a solution:

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/:$PYTHONPATH"

Unfortunately, now there is another error:

ImportError: No module named gobject

Any ideas?

It seems that I've messed up something. There *is* everything required by gDesklets in my

/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/

I have gnome, bonobo and gobject there, but even though I set the path like this:

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/:$PYTHONPATH"

it still gives me an error:

ImportError: could not import bonobo.ui

If you take a look at this, you will see, that it's not the "can't find this or that file" error. Apparently, it sees bonobo, but can't load it, and I really don't know why. If anyone, anyone can help, please! I'd really like to make my desktop unique, without installing gnome/kde.

My distro is Slackware 10.0, I forgot to mention.

for what it's worth, you went from

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/:$PYTHONPATH"

to

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/:$PYTHONPATH"

- perry

copying gobject.so from 2.3 to 2.4 takes away that error message and gives me this one:

root@localhost:/home/perry# gdesklets start
You need a recent version of PyGTK to run this program.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon", line 13, in ?
import gnome.ui
File "/home/bluviolin/miei_pacchetti/BUILDS/gnome-python-2.6.2/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/__init__.py", line 10, in ?
ImportError: No module named gobject
Cannot establish connection to daemon : timeout

(copy made from 2.3 to 2.4 site-packages dirs)

root@localhost:/home/perry# gdesklets start
connecting to daemon [### ]You need a recent version of PyGTK to run this program.
connecting to daemon [ ### ]ImportError: could not import bonobo.ui
You mustn't run gDesklets as super user.
Cannot establish connection to daemon : timeout
root@localhost:/home/perry#

- perry

downloading pygtk-2.5.3-i486-1kan.tgz (for slackware 10.1)....

root@localhost:/home/perry# upgradepkg pygtk-2.5.3-i486-1kan.tgz

+==============================================================================
| Upgrading pygtk-2.4.1-i486-1rsa package using ./pygtk-2.5.3-i486-1kan.tgz
+==============================================================================

. . .


root@localhost:/home/perry# gdesklets start
Traceback (most recent call last):
connecting to daemon [### ] File "/usr/share/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon", line 13, in ?
import gnome.ui
File "/home/bluviolin/miei_pacchetti/BUILDS/gnome-python-2.6.2/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome/__init__.py", line 10, in ?
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning
Cannot establish connection to daemon : timeout
root@localhost:/home/perry#

ok....

- perry

requesting file: pygtk-2.5.3-i486-1kan.tgz

pygtk-2.6.2-i486-1kjz.tgz ?

conclusion:

gdesklets is probably ready for slackware 10.1 or 10.2 but not 10.0....

cheers

- perry