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By MagusWizardo (User), on Fri Apr 1 21:58:59 2005: Config isn't honoured [SOLVED].

I am attepting to use aDesklets, but when I configure a desklet (either by manually opening config.txt), it doesn't seem to change the config of the desklet. For example, when I try to change the feeds in newsreader, on restart of the desklet, it still displays the Slashdot feed - and when I commented out the Slashdot feed, it was reinstated on desklet restart. I get this with both newsreader and modubar. I'm running the version of aDesklets 0.4.6 that is in Gentoo's portage tree, with desklets downloaded from the aDesklets site yesterday.

What can I do about this?

EDIT: This is also hapening with Mailer. I 'vim config.txt' (with mailer not running), change the settings to reflect my GMail account, save, and run the ./mailer.py . I then close mailer (which didn't display anything, so I had to Ctrl - C it), and look again at config.txt . The default settings of nobody@nowhere.net have been reinstated as ID1 (leaving my settings as ID0).

By ZeroDivide (Desklet Author), on Fri Apr 1 22:50:00 2005.

You are starting the desklet wrong.

This is from the FAQ:

Quote:

A.2.4 Gosh! The desklet X is working, but does not remember its settings, or it always starts on the top left corner of screen 0 on a new X session. What is that? It sucks!

This is most probably related to the way you started the desklet (Please see Using adesklets.). You need to invoke the desklet script only once. Afterwards you just need to run the command:

adesklets

and it will remember where you placed your desklets and which desklets you had running.

By MagusWizardo (User), on Fri Apr 1 23:08:11 2005.

Ah. FAQ. Now why didn't I think of that? :oops:
Thanks :)


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