On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:32:45 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: > > If you read the docs in the archive for any given display, it explains this. > > Yes, I read that; I also read this: > > "Again in theory this is simple. First you get some desklet, for example > a clock desklet. Then you untar its package and run ./Install.bin-script. > > $ wget > "http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/files.php?func=gd_downloadfile&gd_filename > =clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2gd_fileid=83" > $ bzip2 -cd clock-desklet-0.32.tar.bz2|tar -xf - > $ cd clock-desklet-0.32 > $ ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin > > After ./Install_Clock_Sensor.bin you might get a message "The sensor has > been installed successfully. gDesklets is now able to use it."." > > I read it, followed it, got the 'go-ahead' message from gdesklets-- and > still they don't work. Though it may not seem like it from some of my > posts, I _do_ generally try to exhaust all the documentation I can find > before I post here. ;)
Sorry, shouldn't have assumed :-\ So it is the clock you are trying to get going. Well, this probably isn't the 'proper' way, but it's the way I first got it working, cuz I don't use Gnome either: In a terminal do 'gdes [tab]' and you should see a command 'gdesklets-add-starterbar-display'. Run that, and you will get a (kinda cool) animated starter bar on your desktop. Click on the house to open Nautilus, and navigate to where you have the clock archive. Click on the display and see if it will start. If it does, it should start whenever you fire up your desktop if you have some way of running 'gdesklet' at startup with XFCE. > Thanks for the urpmi tip, though I tend to shy away from online > updates/installs-- my dialup connection is unreliable and awful beyond > description. I sympathize, but believe me 'urpmi gdesklets-clock' will take a few minutes and save you hours of headaches. I mean, unless you are on 28K or something (ouch). It can't take much longer than downloading the tarballs. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 23:34:12 up 4 days, 10:01, 8 users, load average: 0.22, 0.23, 0.19 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "These neocons have made a horrible mess of things, but that gives them no pause. They went to war with a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and few connections to terrorism — but have coddled Pakistan, which sponsored the Taliban and Al Qaeda and which recently was revealed as the source of nuclear weapons technology for North Korea, Iran and Libya." -- Robert Scheer, robertscheer.com
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