[mythtv-users] Gnome Panel Myth TV status indicator

[Dan Smith]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Dan Smith <mrplowdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 10/09/2010 07:10 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> I have added a tool tip that displays the next scheduled program. Format is not very nice, but it is a start.
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hmmm, I might just be a dummy but not getting it working. I copied the
>>> files to their proper locations stated in mythstatus.py and ran the
>>> script, it run for exactly 60 seconds then quit without any output -
>>> see my highly technical benchmarking "trick".
>>> mrplow at dan-desktop:~$ date;mythstatus.py ;date
>>> Sat Oct  9 19:04:39 PDT 2010
>>> Sat Oct  9 19:05:39 PDT 2010
>>> mrplow at dan-desktop:~$
>>> I went to add the panel which looked like it was created properly but
>>> then I recieved this error:
>>> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_MythstatusApplet".
>>> Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
>> This is a gnome panel application, so to run it normally, you would right click on one of your panels and select "Add to
>> Panel..." Then select MythTV Status from the list.
>>
>> There is a way to run it in debug mode which is to run ./mythtvstatus.py run-in-window. This will run the program in a window
>> and print any error messages to the terminal from which you ran the program.
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu, and don't really know what is necessary to make this distribution agnostic, so if you are running a different
>> distribution, the file locations may need to be tweaked, and the server file may need to be edited to reflect that.
>>
>> I have not done any cosmetic work on it yet so it is not very pretty. I thought it more important to get the functionality right
>> first. I have a long way to go before it does everything I want though.
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>
> running it in a window works as well as the tool tip, but I still
> receive the same error adding it to the gnome panel
>>> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_MythstatusApplet".
>>> Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
>

forgot to mention I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.1