[mythtv-users] Gnome Panel Myth TV status indicator

[Dan Smith]

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?