Screenlet not appearing in Screenlet Manager

[psyopper]

Hi there everyone. I have an issue where a screenlet is not appearing in the screenlet manager. I am currently using version the 0.12 Debian Package from Gnome-Look. I'm hoping someone here can help. I had successfully installed the Network Monitor Screenlet and used it previously on launch from the Sidebar, but now it is no longer launching and not showing up in the manager.

I tried reinstalling it and got an "already installed" message. I clicked OK anyway assuming it would reinstall. This had no effect.

I also removed it by
sudo rm -rf ~/home/<username>/.screenlets/Netmonitor
and then reinstalled it. The Manager reported successful installation but it still doesn't appear in the manager nor does it launch from the sidebar.

I also tried reinstalling the 0.12.deb package and then the above steps again with no success. Attached is a screenshot that shows the very confusing situation.

Any ideas? Thanks!!

[whise]

/usr/share/local/screenlets?

[kwaanens]

@whise: Aren't screenlets in /usr/share/screenlets?

@psyopper: ~/home/<username>/.screenlets/Netmonitor is the same as /home/<username>/home/<username>/.screenlets
Screenlets-manager is definitely not looking there

[psyopper]

@whise: Aren't screenlets in /usr/share/screenlets?

@psyopper: ~/home/<username>/.screenlets/Netmonitor is the same as /home/<username>/home/<username>/.screenlets
Screenlets-manager is definitely not looking there

Newbie mistake trying to sound over educated I guess....

I physically deleted /home/<username>/.screenlets/Netmonitor with
:~/.screenlets$ sudo rm -rf Netmonitor

Whise: this is a 3rd Party screenlet, at least in 0.12, by default installs to ~/.screenlets/<screenlet name> and never appears in /usr/share/screenlets.

[whise]

hum , i kinda know that lol
im asking you to check that folder , because you just upgraded from 0.0.10 , and some people using 0.0.10 installed screenlets in the folder i mentioned

/usr/local/share/screenlets

[kwaanens]

It's probably a good idea to take this up with the author of that particular screenlet.

[kwaanens]

Just a note: Don't use sudo when it'snot necessary. That will severely fu** up your system at one point.

[whise]

nevermind , that is inded weird , ill have to think on thaat , if you find out why let me know , try to redownload or checking permissions

It's probably a good idea to take this up with the author of that particular screenlet.


lol , its me

edit : there is a hacked version of my netmonitor by some other guy

[psyopper]

usr/local/share does not have a screenlets folder.

I think I'll try manually purging of files and reinstalling the package.

[psyopper]

Interesting. I uninstalled the package with Synaptic then purged usr/share/screenlets, ~/.screenlets and finally cleaned ~/.config/autostart and ~/.config for any screenlets.

Next I updated with bazaar and installed:

bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev/screenlets/trunk
cd trunk
sudo python setup.py install


I opened the Screenlet Manager (which shows version 0.13) and launched the Sidebar. The Sidebar opened and automatically started all the other sidebar Screenlets I had associated with it earlier. Of course all the Screenlets are operating in their default modes so I configured them.

Why Interesting? Because I though I had purged everything yet the Sidebar remembered what Screenlets is was supposed to launch! Now to download a fresh copy of the Netmonitor:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Net+Monitor+Screenlet?content=64719

And see what it does when I install it!

[psyopper]

Now this gets even weirder. I went to install the Screenlet and was again greeted with a message that it was already installed though it still didn't appear in the manager. I tried launching it with the Sidebar (it did show up in the launch menu) but I got a message "Couldn't load Netmonitor Screenlet".

Here's what's interesting - when I r-clicked on the SIdebar it popped up on top of my other open widgets. I couldn't get it to go back down so I closed it (I did NOT delete it) and it no longer appeared in the manager!

Even worse - I reinstalled from the trunk with the same commands as above:

brad@Ubuntu:~/screenlets$ cd trunk
brad@Ubuntu:~/screenlets/trunk$ sudo python setup.py install
Password:
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
running install_data
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets-0.0.13.egg-info
Writing /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets-0.0.13.egg-info
brad@Ubuntu:~/screenlets/trunk$

Sidebar still does not appear in the manager! What am I doing wrong?

[psyopper]

So I decided to move on in the right way...

I tried uninstalling with make uninstall as referenced in the installation thread, followed by the removal of /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets*.

Following this I went back into the trunk directory and ran the install. It appeared to work fine except that Sidebar STILL does NOT appear in the manager!!!

[psyopper]

Wait a minute!

Sidebar is not in the trunk is it?

[whise]

Wait a minute!

Sidebar is not in the trunk is it?

nop , haha , that was funny ,

now seriously , does it still append?

[psyopper]

It seems to be working properly now, including the Netmonitor after I added it.

Thanks!!!