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[zigbert]

[vinayv]

Hi zigbert,

I had previously installed 2.2.7 version of pwidgets and ran into a problem. The /tmp/xerrs.log file would become very huge.. More details on that here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59819

Just now, I saw that you have 2.3.0 version of pwidgets. I have installed it now. I will let you know if a similar thing happens with v2.3.0 too.

[gortonc]

I really appreciate pwidgets2.3 on 5.10.003. I have also installed extras-2.2.4 and dude 0.4. When I follow the directions at :http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=225938&sid=178c45a1ffb753cbaf3c08726fa77547 I loose my widgets. Is there any way around this? It seems that I should be able to assign different desktop wallpapers directly in pwidgets, but I can't figure out how. Any ideas are welcome.

Grace & peace

Chris

[Ron]

[01micko]

Hello Ron

Sorry I have neglected that package a little.

When Pwidgets is uninstalled the /root/,pwidgets (hidden folder containing your settings) remains. You can delete it safely manually.

One problem may be the version of imlib2 being used. I constructed the package over 12 months ago and since then imlib2 has been updated to version 1.4.4 as far as I know. With different puppies and different binaries being used it is probably necessary to get the most compatible version of imlib2. If you are using Lucid Puppy 5 X you will need the Lucid Lynx version. There is a libraries page for extra libs http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/lucid/libs/

I am aware that that is not the only issue with weatherx. I will look at the code.. I notice that the code for the main weather widget is updated and the weatherx code is very similar. I will bring it into line to see if that fixes any issues.

Cheers

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Later.....

Well Ron I did some work and the results look satisfactory.

I now have included Weatherx2 so you can use 2 locations. I fixed (hopefully) the buggy apparition, and also hopefully the pinstall.sh which was overwriting imlib2 and it should not have been! The main reason imlib2 is included is for puppy 4 X installations.

Sigmund.. I changed the location switch to a simple sed call, it seems to work ok and better than the grep -vE method.

Cheers

[Ron]

Micko,

Whoopie! Downloaded the new extras package and it works like a charm. So far, anyway, lol. I love having two instances of both weather and weatherx. Thank you for all the work. I'm happy now. Thanks for the pet; many of us users depend on them, being a little .tar challenged...

Is there still any point in still replacing imlib2 as well? I'm a little fuzzy on that. Oh well, if it's just a matter of replacing the old file with the new one, I guess that's simple enough.

Ron

[01micko]

If it aint broke don't fix it!



Cheers

[Ron]

[01micko]

Well Ron you twisted my arm!

Indeed the calendar for Sunday is broken and it is a simple logic error.

Note, my patch here will fix it but it does need to be rewritten for multiuser compatibility. Won't worry you though I don't think (maybe Sigmund! )

Cheers

[Ron]

Micko,
Sorry to report that the Weatherx icons are gone again. When you first posted the extras 2.3 package, I installed it and the icons worked fine, but now they have disappeared in both instances. I even tried uninstall/reinstall both the Pwidgets and the extras package and even manually deleted all the remaining files after deletion using pfind (there are a lot). Seems strange that after manually deleting everything that pfind finds in "pwidgets" and "weatherx" there are still these remnant problems; even the last sidebar gets reapplied after a completely fresh install.

Also another question: How can I configure for no sidebar at all? I seems like if you install any sidebar, there is no selection for "none" unless I'm overlooking something.

Good news is that the calendar is still fixed!

Thanks a lot for your attention on these problems.

Ron

[01micko]

[Ron]

Mick,
To your questions:
1. The widget itself seems to be working fine; updating, has text, etc. Just no icons (both weatherx's).

2. I boot with live cd, so basically frugal, save file on my Widows partition.

3.. I had not updated imlib2, but I just now did, using petget to install the package (thank you petget). Is that all I need to do? It made no change that I could see but all I did is reapply.

4. I've always installed the extras second, then your patches.

I can't pinpoint what it is that makes it change, but it may have happened after I rebooted one time.

Right now, I have two computers running side by side, both on Lupu 5.1.1, and pretty much identical configurations. One is holding it's own with the icons so far, but I haven't rebooted it for a while. If you want, I could compare and edit some files using Geany, side by side. The two are running pretty much the same widgets but with some different skins. I could keep the original files separate so I could restore them after. Let me know; I'd be glad to help if I can. I won't make any changes to the working system until I hear from you. My father's Lupu system likewise still is displaying icons and it has not been rebooted for a few days and I haven't done any reconfiguring since I set up Pwidgets on it. It seems like if you leave the system alone, it continues to work. Unfortunately, that is not in my nature...

I thought I had tried the "remove" option on sidebars before, but anyway it worked this time. Thanks.

[01micko]

Hi Ron

Ok, it may be errors in the pupsave, that's my hunch. I have rebooted several times in 4 different window managers (jwm, openbox, icewm and xfce4) and still the icons are persistent! It is a very good thing that they remain persistent while the machine has been running several days.. it shows that the code for the weather information is working.

On the failing machine, boot 'puppy pfix=ram'. On the partition where your pupsave is right click some free area in the rox filer window and choose 'window >> terminal here'

run

[Ron]

Mick,
I wasn't sure what you wanted me to do. If I boot to pfix=ram, i have no access to my home directory where the save file is, so what I did was not reboot, but ran fsck in mnt/home directory in rox as you described. I did have to respond to quite a few errors. When it was finished, I did reboot. Now I have the icons back. This does make sense, because the problem seemed to occur only after a reboot, so if the save file was hosed up, it would explain odd behavior. I never even considered that possibility.

I'll be embarassed if this has been an isolated problem. I assumed it was a bug and I thought I remembered the problem existing on the other system before, which was why I went to the "weather" widgets, but I'll take it anyway with gratitude for your efforts and I learned a few things in the process. Also, it's good to have fixed the calendar. I know some others had mentioned it too.

Is there a tutorial of some kind on how pwidgets works under the hood? It would be an interesting learning experience to develop a widget, if only for my own amusement. Even if it's just an outline of what modules do what, how they integrate in pwidgets and window managers, etc. All I can find is how to use pwidgets.

Thanks again. I'll "sing out" again if I need to, but I think I can leave you alone for now.

Ron

[01micko]

Hi Ron,

Good, you got it sorted, but don't feel embarrassed. What you did was prompt me to update that widget and that indeed was necessary. It should now be more stable for all, it's still running great for me, and as I recall it did have problems awhile back.

Cheers.. (and I'll be listening for your tune )