Re: deskbar-applet crashes in 2.16.0

["David A. Kotz" <dkotz cs utexas edu>]

Joseph,

Thanks again for the help.  It turns out that the cause of the problem 
was stupidity.  I realized too late that my gnome-session wrapper script 
was missing the PYTHONPATH.  Once I corrected that, the deskbar launched 
just fine.  Sorry to trouble you.

- dave


Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> Grrr... Maybe this will help
>
>         http://www.davyd.id.au/articles/debugging-gnome-applets.shtml
>
> -Joseph
>
> ===================================================================
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 17:57 -0500, David A. Kotz wrote:
> > Joseph,
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but 2.16.1 also crashes.
> >
> > - dave
> >
> >
> > Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > > Dave,
> > > deskbar-applet-2.16.1 is out.  Give that one a try.
> > >
> > > (1) cd desktop/deskbar-applet
> > > (2) make uninstall clean
> > > (3) edit the Makefile [2.16.0 -> 2.16.1]
> > > (4) make makesum  [to fetch the new version and update the checksum]
> > > (5) make install
> > >
> > > -Joseph
> > >
> > > ==================================================================
> > > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 17:16 -0500, David A. Kotz wrote:
> > > > When I try to add the deskbar applet to my panel in a GARNOME 2.16.0 
> > > > build, it always crashes.  How should I debug such applet crashes?  Is 
> > > > there a way to launch applets from a terminal so that I can watch for 
> > > > error messages?
> > > >
> > > > - dave