Comments on: Installing

By: Jurgen

Jurgen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:48:22 +0000

Is it possible to use Hamster applet with AWN (Avant Windows Navigator)?
If yes, how would I add launcher to AWN panel? Thanks in advance.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:59:07 +0000

Trying Ubuntu 9.10, have installed Hamster from repo (V2.28.0).
How do I change the db location on this version of Hamster?
My db is located in my “Dropbox” so that it is backed up
$”~/Dropbox/hamster-applet”
(in-case of lose or theft of netbook).

I can’t see how to redirect hamster to look at that location, previous versions I just edited
“/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/hamster/_init_.py”

Is it possible for future versions to have an option for db location please?
Cheers
Mark

By: YH

YH — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:27:59 +0000

Cool! That’s exactly the insider info I need. Now I’m off to write a short python script to ps aux my system and kill the python process for me. Then I can toss that in my desktop panel. Thanks again for all the help!

-YH

By: Toms

Toms — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:30:10 +0000

you could just kill the python process.

By: YH

YH — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:06:42 +0000

Hi again,

So I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. Doing that and installing:

>sudo apt-get install gnome-devel

seems to have worked for me. Thanks again for the help and I just want to say again that this is a fantastic piece code you’ve wrote. I use it to keep track of my work day and it’s really helping me manage my time better.

I do have one last issue though… So I’m using Hamster on both my office desktop and my personal laptop. I’m syncing the hamster.db file using unison. The problem is that the applet loads up automatically when I turn on my laptop. Then I sync my laptop to my desktop, but hamster doesn’t read the database. I have to remove hamster from my desktop panel, kill the python process and then add it to my panel again for it to read in the newly sync’ed *.db file. Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks

By: Toms

Toms — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:38:09 +0000

well, the error is because it looks for data files where they are not. i’m not sure what it could be connected to.

By: YH

YH — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:01:20 +0000

Still no go. I went back and made sure to run

>sudo apt-get remove hamster-applet

and also ran

>sudo apt-get autoremove

I even erased everything, re-git the file and started from the very beginning again. When I try to add the applet to my desktop nothing happens and running it in window mode still gives me the error above

By: tm

tm — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:29:56 +0000

hmm, you seem to have mix of both.
please try to run
sudo ./bye-hamster.sh

in hamster checkout folder followed by
sudo make install

and try again

By: YH

YH — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:21:27 +0000

Great program! I’m using it on my laptop and want to get it working on my desktop, but things arn’t going so smoothly. Desktop is Ubuntu 8.10 and I’m trying the instructions to get the up-to-date version. Everything installs nicely, but when I try to add hamster to my panel nothing happens. Running:

/usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet -w

gets me:

Binding shortcut H to popup hamster

(hamster-applet:6619): Bonobo-WARNING **: Can’t find ‘Hamster_Applet.xml’ to load ui from
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet”, line 119, in
applet_factory(applet, None)
File “/usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet”, line 56, in applet_factory
hamster_applet = HamsterApplet(applet)
File “/usr//lib/python2.5/site-packages/hamster/applet.py”, line 230, in __init__
self._gui = stuff.load_ui_file(“applet.ui”)
File “/usr//lib/python2.5/site-packages/hamster/stuff.py”, line 38, in load_ui_file
ui.add_from_file(os.path.join(runtime.data_dir, name))
glib.GError: Failed to open file ‘/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/data/applet.ui’: No such file or directory

Any suggestions?

By: tm

tm — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:24:01 +0000

as far as i know, xfce has a meta-applet to add gnome applets to desktop.