gDesklets....(Kind of works now, yet still doesnt......)

[jammin]

Hi.

Ive just emereged gDesklets, and the mac OSX starterbar.

gDesklets, and gDeskletsDisplay are now in Applications > Accessories, in Gnome.

But when i try to run gDesklet, the little clock icon comes up and the program name appears in the bottom 'start' menu type thingy, then nothing?!

Im a n00b.

Thanks

[monotux]

fire up a terminal, and point it to the directory where you have your desklets (somewhere in /usr/share).
start gdesklets (gdesklets &), walk into the directory containing the desklets (Displays), and when you have found your .display, tell gdesklets to start in like this:

[Ateo]

To further illustrate the previous post.....

When you launch gdesklets, you need to provide the desklet you wish to start. All desklets end in a .display "extension".... When you install a new desklet, they are placed in /usr/share/gdesklets/desklet-directory so you would fire up your desired desklet with:

[jammin]

Hi and thanks for your reply.

I cant get it to work!

[jammin]

Ateo. thanks, yeah, that kindof works.

When i run the command, something comes up under my pointer!! but, when i click, it dissapears????

Im trying to put the mac OSX taskbar, its called "Starterbar"

The thing thats under my cusor is my home folders icon??

Thanks.

[Obz]

what versions of python and gdesklets are you using?

[jammin]

Im unsure.

Ive just recently installed gentoo from a net install, so im guessing they would be the latest versions?

[monotux]

(let's take this in public, so that we can help others with similar errors).

to check your python and gdesklets, you can do it like this: