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Anonymous
2003-09-23
2003-09-26
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2003-09-23

    Hi.  I am fairly new to using superkaramba.  I am having trouble using slickbar.  When i load the theme it looks like this:

    see link:  http://members.cox.net/mesman00/desktop2.bmp

    however, this is what it is supposed to look like: http://members.cox.net/mesman00/5658-2.png

    also, when i go to configure theme there is not configure link to click, yet the description for slickbar says there should be one.  why may this be happening.  does it have to do with my graphics card (which is an SiS 315 4X AGP 64 MB).  If so, are there drivers i need to update?  Every once in a while if i check the console that superkaramba is running out of i will notice a that it says Widgetupdate failed.  Is there a reason for this.

    one other thing.  as you will notice in my picture the regular kde menu bar is still running.  how do i disable it while using slickbar or other karamba themes?

    Help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

     
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-09-23

      Firstly, from the screenshots it looks like the panels that require PyKDE are not working. You must have PyKDE setup and working in order for those panels to work. You should be able to get an error message about this if you look at the output on the command line before all that widgetupdated stuff (you can scroll up to look in konsole).

      As for the config GUI.... Try running it from a console. Type "python config.py" while you are in the slickbar directory. That should give some more useful output.

      Post the error messages if you need more help :)

      ---Matt

      PS: What distro are you running?

       
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-09-24

      when i load the slickbar theme, the first error message it gives me is:

      Call To Widget Update Failed

      Then i get some random attribute errors and type errors spread out.

      i ran phython config.py. and it didn't not open up the config GUI, and instead this is the error message i got:

      WARNING: Could not load Tkinter python module. The SlickBar Config GUI requires it to run. It is available here: http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/.
      Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
      Xlib: No protocol specified

      config.py: cannot connect to X server :0.0

      what exactly is the Tkinter phyton module?  Will that solve my problem by downloading it?

      by the way, I am running gentoo 1.4

       
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-09-24

      ok i just went to the tkinter site and i ran import _tkinter at the python prompt.  apparently i don't have it installed.  the instructions on the site about installing it are a liltte confusing to me.  if i need it, can you please tell me how to install it.  thanks

       
      • Anonymous

        Anonymous - 2003-09-25

        Ok, I've never used gentoo, but if it works the way people say it does, you should be able to type something like "emerge tk" to install tk (this should also enable TKInter support in python).
        As for the panels that aren't being displayed, "emerge pykde" should install PyKDE and get them going.

         
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-09-25

      this is weird, i just merged the tk module, however, i still get the same error when trying to run "python config.py."  also, i have already installed pykde.  i still get the same results when loading slickbar that are shown in my screenshot

       
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-09-26

      ok so i just did a merge of tk (tkinter, part of python). however, when i run python from the command prompt and type:

      import _tkinter

      i still get the following error:

      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
      ImportError: No module named _tkinter

      so, i tried to download the source for tcl and tk and compile and install it myself. however, i still get the same problems. is there a certain directory that tcl and tk should be installed to so it is recognized? anyone have an idea of whats going on, i would really appreciate the hlep. thanks

       
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-09-26

      also, what is up with the widget update errors that i seem to be getting quite often?  is there something i can install to fix this?  will tcl and tk fix this?

       

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