Re: [sshmenu] Antw: Re: problems with integrating theapplet in thepanel on opensuse-10.2

[Stephan H. <Ste...@La...>]

Thanks a lot! Now it works! After starting the sshmenu-applet from the command line there was an error that libpanel2 was missing. After installing that and some other dependend ruby libraries now it workes.

Cheers,
Stephan

>>> Grant McLean <gr...@mc...> schrieb am Di 29 Jul 2008 um 23:00 in
Nachricht <121...@pu...>:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:53 +0200, Stephan Hendl wrote:
>> Just I've take the clock applet, changed everything but the same error
>> still exists ;-( Unfortunately I'm not familiar with ruby and so I
>> look into the code like someone who doesn't what he's doing. Starting
>> the program from the shell works fine but I looked for the possiblity
>> to start it from the panel preferably.
> 
> The standalone program and the applet use the same code with one minor
> difference.  The applet wrapper script (called 'sshmenu-applet') uses an
> extra Ruby library called panelapplet2 - do you have this library
> installed?
> 
> In Debian the package is called libpanel-applet2-ruby.
> 
>> Would you mind explaining the code in the sshmenu-applet? Maybe there
>> are differences betwenn gnome on SuSE and Ubuntu. We have installed
>> gnome-2.16 (opensuse 10.2).
> 
> I don't think it's a GNOME version problem.  My development environment
> was GNOME 2.14 on Ubuntu Dapper.  I have just recently upgraded to
> Ubuntu Hardy which is running (I think) 2.22.
> 
> There is a procedure you can use for debugging applets.
> 
> 1. use 'ps' to check that there are no sshmenu-applet processes
>    running
> 
> 2. from a command shell, run the applet wrapper script directly,
>    in my case the path would be:
> 
>     /usr/lib/gnome-panel/sshmenu-applet
> 
>    at this point, the program should appear to 'hang' - no output
>    should appear in your command window and no applet should 
>    appear on the GNOME panel.  If the program dies with an error,
>    that problem must be resolved first
> 
> 3. launch GNOME's 'Add to Panel' dialog by right clicking on the 
>    panel and selecting from the menu
> 
> 4. select SSHMenu from the list of available applets and add it
>    to your panel (either with the '+' button or by dragging it
>    to the panel
> 
>    at this point, the applet should appear in the panel, if it
>    does not, there should be an error message displayed in the
>    terminal window where you started the applet wrapper script
> 
> Try that and let us know how you get on.
> 
> Regards
> Grant
> 
> 
> 
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