Screenlets do not display at all in lxde/openbox

[David Dombrowsky]

This might very well be a configuration problem on my end. I run xubuntu 12.04 with lightdm/lxde/openbox as by window manager. I can start the manager just fine from the command line, and select "clock" , and click "launch/add":

 davek@home$ screenlets
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0".
True
Starter already exists.
DAEMON FOUND!
True
Launch Clock
Logging output goes to: /home/davidd/.config/screenlets/ClockScreenlet.log
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0".
REGISTER screenlet: ClockScreenlet
True
Quit!

No obvious error message, and the daemon ends up in the systray, but there's nothing to be found. No window, no screenlet, no nothing. No errors in ~/.xsession-errors. I'm not sure where else to check.

Info:
Screenlets 0.1.6
Linux e2-07l 3.2.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 15 10:48:16 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
openbox 3.5.0-2ubuntu2
lxde 0.5.0-4ubuntu3

[David Dombrowsky (davek)]

This might be a clue:

 davek@home$ cat .config/screenlets/ClockScreenlet.log
Warning - SolarTZ module not found
CachingBackend: Loading instances from cache
Creating new entry for ClockScreenlet in /tmp/screenlets/screenlets.davidd.running
Loading instances in: /home/davidd/.config/screenlets/Clock/default/
No instance(s) found in session-path, creating new one.
WARNING: No theme found
OK - Clock has been initialized.
Failed to unregister from daemon: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
No more screenlets running.
Deleting global tempfile /tmp/screenlets/screenlets.davidd.running

dbus problem? What am I missing?

[David Dombrowsky (davek)]

This makes screenlets useless for me. I'll try building from source to see what I can find.

[David Dombrowsky (davek)]

If I run `dbus-launch`, and save the environment vars, I can get rid of the dbus error. But I still get no screenlet window.

Creating new entry for ClockScreenlet in /tmp/screenlets/screenlets.davidd.running
Loading instances in: /home/davidd/.config/screenlets/Clock/default/
Loaded config from: Clock1.ini
WARNING: No theme found
Set options in ClockScreenlet
OK - Clock has been initialized.
Restored instances from session 'default' ...

[David Dombrowsky (davek)]

I posted to "invalid" bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/1048808/comments/2

So far I've not been able to get a local install to run.

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/screenlets-manager/screenlets-daemon.py", line 370, in <module>
        daemon = ScreenletsDaemon()
      File "/usr/share/screenlets-manager/screenlets-daemon.py", line 69, in __init__
        pixbuf = icontheme.load_icon("screenlets", 24, 0)
    glib.GError: Icon 'screenlets' not present in theme

And at this point I have to get back to work.... shelving screenlets hacking
again for another day.