There are two menus for editing settings

[Compizuser01]

Server settings (e.g. Keep below/on top, treat as widget, scale, etc.) are displayed in their own menu separate from screenlets settings. This is a major point of confusion and needs to be fixed ASAP.

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Can you set these via the floating settings button that appears when you move the mouse over a screenlet?

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Unfortunately, I have ye'ol white square problem as of now. So I can't test any UA. Will experiment some more...

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Can you file a new bug report for the 'white square' bug that you mentioned? A screenshot would also be helpful.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

White square problem gone... But a screenlet does not have a settings button floating when the mouse hovers above it....

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Rebooted machine: now I see the white squares again instead of my UA screenlets (see seperate bugreport). I can, however, now see the settings icons (see screenshot) but nothing happens when I click on them.

Screenshot: http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotwhitesqruapj7.png

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Rebooted again. Turned off compositing which helped to actually see the UA screenlets. I see the floating settings button, which I cannot click. Right mouse button does not let a context menu pop up to adjust settings per screenlet.

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Just to clarify, did you try right clicking on the screenlet itself? (And not on the buttons.)

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

I right-clicked on the screenlet itself, not on the little button(s). :)

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Ok, thanks.

Can you please run the following and post the output:
/usr/local/share/screenlets/Mount/MountScreenlet.py -oSTDOUT -l4

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

bash: /usr/local/share/screenlets/Mount/MountScreenlet.py: No such file or directory

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Oooops. Should be:
~$ /usr/share/screenlets/Mount/MountScreenlet.py -oSTDOUT -l4theme.conf found! Loading option-overrides.
theme.conf loaded:
Name: default
Author: Helder Fraga aka Whise
Version: 1.0
Info: Default theme
Override: color_title
WARNING: Option 'color_title' not found or protected.
Override: font
WARNING: Option 'font' not found or protected.
Override: color_hover
WARNING: Option 'color_hover' not found or protected.
Override: color_unmounted
WARNING: Option 'color_unmounted' not found or protected.
Override: font_title
WARNING: Option 'font_title' not found or protected.
Override: show_shadow
WARNING: Option 'show_shadow' not found or protected.
Override: color_mounted
WARNING: Option 'color_mounted' not found or protected.
Override: color_back
WARNING: Option 'color_back' not found or protected.
Override: color_text
WARNING: Option 'color_text' not found or protected.

A window with a question popped open which asked me aquestion. I felt lucky and answered "yes".

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Do you get any output when you try to right click on the screenlet?

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Unfortunately: nope.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Stop the press: yes! Dunno why it worked, but it worked. Do you think it will stay so after a reboot?

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It seems to me that the reaction on the right-mouse click is much slower than w/ other apps... Still the amount of settings I can set is a bit small. But I think that you will adjust that in time. Especially the possibility to set some screenlets as "widget" and some not.

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen (ketilwaa-deactivatedaccount)]

This needs to be taken care of before a stable release. At the moment we have two places for settings. The two should be merged. Having 2 is obviously very confusing.

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Confirming with updated title and description.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Work on this "bug" is progressing very nice! But will there be more settings? Like setting the size of your screenlets and the possibility so set some as widget, and others as sticky on the desktop? Or should I open a separate "bug topic" on this?

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

No, don't open another bug report.

If you click on the floating settings icon, you should be able to change all of the settings that you mentioned.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

When I try to click the floating settings or close icon, nothing happens. But when I right-click the shutdown screenlet for instance, I used to be able to set its size. That option is not there anymore in the "Properties --> Options" context dialog window...

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen (ketilwaa-deactivatedaccount)]

The floating buttons are not always clickable for me either.
To make this debuggable, we should fix the bug where the buttons disappear too soon. It's sometimes difficult to tell if you've actually managed to hit the button before it disappeared.

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen (ketilwaa-deactivatedaccount)]

In relation to my last comment, it's bug #262603

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

I do not see the option to set the screenlets Size in the options menu that pops up if I right-click it. Is the options menu different if you click the floating button?

[Natan Yellin (aantny)]

Yes.

The two menus will be merged together soon.

[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

This is the command line output when I try to click on the floating button:

[code]
Delete autostarter for Shutdown.
Logging output goes to: $HOME/.config/Screenlets/ShutdownScreenlet.log
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/melange.py", line 690, in realize
    self.create_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/melange.py", line 265, in create_menu
    self.builder = gtk.Builder()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Builder'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/screenlets/melange.py", line 495, in button_press_event
    self.menu.popup(None, None, None, 0, int(event.time))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'popup'
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[Compizuser01 (meneerjansen00)]

Are the Universal Screenlets still being actively developed?

I only read discussions about Gnome on the Esylum/UA website (http://theesylum.com). I still experience a lot of weird behaviour w/ the Screenlets. White squares instead of screenlets when you start one twice. I still cannot edit the settings of a screenlet (I cannot click on the settings icon that appears above a screenlet). They stop when I click on certain icons in the screenlets-manager, etc. etc. For me, the screenlets are almost unusable. They simply behave too unpredictable at this moment... (see the movie I posted on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3zezhV430 )

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen (ketilwaa-deactivatedaccount)]

@ Compizuser01

1. This last post is hardly related to this bug report.
2. You are mixing two names. "Screenlets" are no longer developed. "Universal applets" is very much actively developed, and is nearing the first stable release.

See http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/forumdisplay.php?f=102 for more info, and ask non-bug-related questions there.

-- Ketil