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By bz2 (User), on Fri May 18 06:42:13 2007: adesklets_installer, beryl transparency [PARTLY SOLVED].

[[url=http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=395] Initially related to this post ]

syfou wrote:

Hi Felpudo,
Then, I encourage you to install adesklets 0.6.1 from Ubuntu Universe; as far as I can see from the ChangeLog, it got the lastest patches applied, and should avoid you most of the pitfalls... Be aware this might not solve any of your problems, but we will be able to start solving it once it is done... Just tell me what still applies once you performed this! Yours,

I installed 0.6.1 from Ubuntu Universe but I get the message:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/adesklets_installer", line 223, in run
    getattr(self, '_'+op)(**kw)
  File "/usr/bin/adesklets_installer", line 244, in _install
    self.desklets.install(desklet)  #    refresh of desklets states
  File "/usr/bin/adesklets_installer", line 150, in install
    tar = tarfile.open(mode='r|bz2', fileobj=f)
  File "tarfile.py", line 1168, in open
    _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize))
  File "tarfile.py", line 1047, in __init__
    self.name = os.path.abspath(name)
  File "posixpath.py", line 402, in abspath
    if not isabs(path):
  File "posixpath.py", line 49, in isabs
    return s.startswith('/')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'


It works if I install the desklets manually, except that the background transparency looks bad.
I am using x86, I found a bug on launchpad but that was only for x86_64.

By syfou (Core Developer & Desklet Author), on Fri May 18 11:44:30 2007.

Hi bz2,

bz2 wrote:


I installed 0.6.1 from Ubuntu Universe but I get the message:

Code:


[tarfile exception trace with adeskles_installer]



In fact, this is a bug in Python itself, now fixed upstream. But thanks for reporting it: I will see if I can shield my code against it somehow.

bz2 wrote:


It works if I install the desklets manually, except that the background transparency looks bad.

Which WM are you using? Be aware that adesklets transparency behaves badly on many X11 settings with hardware-accelerated OpenGL compositing turned on -- see for instance this other post. Yours,

By bz2 (User), on Fri May 18 15:43:05 2007.

I am using beryl under xfce4.4. I have a geforce2 card so the post about aiglx explained why..

By syfou (Core Developer & Desklet Author), on Fri May 18 16:39:51 2007.

Well, sorry I cannot do more for your transparency issue, bz2. As for the adesklets_installer problem with Python >= 2.5.0 and < 2.5.2 (final), there is now a workaround in the code repository. Yours,


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