Re: Python module wnck?
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:54:29 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can recall working. I only wanted three: Clock, ClearCalendar and ClearWeather. They work perfectly. I haven't tried any of the others. Consider making a port. Clearly there is some demand. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ For the Python wnck module, or for screenlets? I'm afraid that technically I am well short of the ability to do either. I am more than willing to help anyone who elects to so, though. Incidentally (and this is addressed to Rod mainly), the ClearWeather module was broken. I had to hack it a bit to get it to work properly. It got confused over proxies, but since I am not unfamiliar with Python, that presented no difficulty. Creating a port itself is rather simple...it the porting of the code from Linux to FreeBSD that is the hard part. I have one official port that I made as a way to brush off my C skills, it works but it was hell getting some of the Linux specific translated but thanks to one of the committers it got cleaned up... But anyway, the issues with screenlets is getting any of the screenlets that interface with the system to work such as Mount, MyIP, Netmonitor or the CPU Meter, when I tried this with FreeBSD 7.2 none of them worked because of all the Linux device names. If you know python this should not be too hard just time consuming. The only reason I stopped working on this was I moved from using OpenBox to using the i3 window manager. I can check around and see if I still have any thing I worked on laying around but I'm not sure about that...I changed hard disks since then. I do love python so I would not be adversed to working on some of the individual screenlet modules. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com 'Silence is a fence around wisdom' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:07:59 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:54:29 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can recall working. I only wanted three: Clock, ClearCalendar and ClearWeather. They work perfectly. I haven't tried any of the others. Consider making a port. Clearly there is some demand. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ For the Python wnck module, or for screenlets? I'm afraid that technically I am well short of the ability to do either. I am more than willing to help anyone who elects to so, though. Incidentally (and this is addressed to Rod mainly), the ClearWeather module was broken. I had to hack it a bit to get it to work properly. It got confused over proxies, but since I am not unfamiliar with Python, that presented no difficulty. Creating a port itself is rather simple...it the porting of the code from Linux to FreeBSD that is the hard part. I have one official port that I made as a way to brush off my C skills, it works but it was hell getting some of the Linux specific translated but thanks to one of the committers it got cleaned up... But anyway, the issues with screenlets is getting any of the screenlets that interface with the system to work such as Mount, MyIP, Netmonitor or the CPU Meter, when I tried this with FreeBSD 7.2 none of them worked because of all the Linux device names. If you know python this should not be too hard just time consuming. The only reason I stopped working on this was I moved from using OpenBox to using the i3 window manager. I can check around and see if I still have any thing I worked on laying around but I'm not sure about that...I changed hard disks since then. I do love python so I would not be adversed to working on some of the individual screenlet modules. Thanks for the encouragement, but my skills really are not up to that. Cheers, anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Use the ports, Luke. :-) % cd /usr/ports % make search name=wnck And a result: Port: libwnck-2.30.6 Path: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/libwnck Info: Library used for writing pagers and taskslists More checks: % cat less x11-toolkits/libwnck/pkg-descr libwnck is a Window Navigator Construction Kit, i.e. a library used for writing pagers and taskslists. It is needed for the GNOME 2.0 desktop. Does this look like what you're searchin for? I know it's not specified to be a Python module, but maybe it interfaces with Python somehow? You can also use make search key=wnck to bring up a list of keyword search results. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? It's been a year or two since I tried to get screenlets running, but as I recall you need to get python wnck module yourself. libwnck is in the ports which is needed for the python module. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com 'Silence is a fence around wisdom' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? It's been a year or two since I tried to get screenlets running, but as I recall you need to get python wnck module yourself. libwnck is in the ports which is needed for the python module. Thanks. libwnck is already installed, so I downloaded gnome-python- desktop-2.32.0.tar.bz2 from ftp.gnome.org, which apparently contains the Python wnck module. I was intending to make the whole thing, but then install only the bit I need. Unfortunately when it came to compile wnck, the following error was displayed: libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' is not a valid libtool archive Indeed it isn't. There is no such file, even though libxcb is installed. Any thoughts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? It's been a year or two since I tried to get screenlets running, but as I recall you need to get python wnck module yourself. libwnck is in the ports which is needed for the python module. Thanks. libwnck is already installed, so I downloaded gnome-python- desktop-2.32.0.tar.bz2 from ftp.gnome.org, which apparently contains the Python wnck module. I was intending to make the whole thing, but then install only the bit I need. Unfortunately when it came to compile wnck, the following error was displayed: libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' is not a valid libtool archive Indeed it isn't. There is no such file, even though libxcb is installed. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=163415postcount=17 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:29:44 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:23 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:44 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get screenlets up and running on 9.0, but I'm getting the following Python error: ImportError: No module named wnck I believe that this should be supplied by a a package or port named something like py27-wnck, but am unable to trace any such. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? It's been a year or two since I tried to get screenlets running, but as I recall you need to get python wnck module yourself. libwnck is in the ports which is needed for the python module. Thanks. libwnck is already installed, so I downloaded gnome-python- desktop-2.32.0.tar.bz2 from ftp.gnome.org, which apparently contains the Python wnck module. I was intending to make the whole thing, but then install only the bit I need. Unfortunately when it came to compile wnck, the following error was displayed: libtool: link: `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' is not a valid libtool archive Indeed it isn't. There is no such file, even though libxcb is installed. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=163415postcount=17 Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in case any other soul needs assistance. What a suerb list!. As I gain experience with FreeBSD I hope I shall be able to contribute something in return. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in case any other soul needs assistance. What a suerb list!. As I gain experience with FreeBSD I hope I shall be able to contribute something in return. How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can recall working. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodper...@rodperson.com Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity, go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. - Letter from Christopher Columbus. J.A. Rawley, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A History. Pg.3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in case any other soul needs assistance. What a suerb list!. As I gain experience with FreeBSD I hope I shall be able to contribute something in return. How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can recall working. I only wanted three: Clock, ClearCalendar and ClearWeather. They work perfectly. I haven't tried any of the others. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in case any other soul needs assistance. What a suerb list!. As I gain experience with FreeBSD I hope I shall be able to contribute something in return. How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can recall working. I only wanted three: Clock, ClearCalendar and ClearWeather. They work perfectly. I haven't tried any of the others. Consider making a port. Clearly there is some demand. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python module wnck?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:51:49 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:35 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:14:53 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that link! And thanks to Rod and Poly too. I now have screenlets up and running perfectly. I have kept notes in case any other soul needs assistance. What a suerb list!. As I gain experience with FreeBSD I hope I shall be able to contribute something in return. How many of the screenlets actually work? When I was working on this I found that a number of them where too linux specific to work. I have a screenshot of the sticky note and weather working but that's about all I can recall working. I only wanted three: Clock, ClearCalendar and ClearWeather. They work perfectly. I haven't tried any of the others. Consider making a port. Clearly there is some demand. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ For the Python wnck module, or for screenlets? I'm afraid that technically I am well short of the ability to do either. I am more than willing to help anyone who elects to so, though. Incidentally (and this is addressed to Rod mainly), the ClearWeather module was broken. I had to hack it a bit to get it to work properly. It got confused over proxies, but since I am not unfamiliar with Python, that presented no difficulty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
