[mythtv-users] Gnome Panel Myth TV status indicator

[Douglas Peale]

On 10/09/2010 09:23 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
> 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

Unfortunately, I do not know what that error message means. I, of course, do not get that error. That would be too easy.

If someone could give me a clue how to debug this, I'd appreciate it.

Google is not being very helpful here. There appears to be a different problem with the same error message where panel applets
that usually load fine sometimes do not, and that is the type of discussion I find when I search for that error message.

Without a more specific error message, about all I can suggest is that you verify that mythstatus.py is in the directory that
mythstatus.server says it is. (in a terminal type "cat /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/mythstatus.server" and look at the line that says
"location=" that will tell you where mythstatus.py should be put.)