Re: Adding apps to the panel

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Nils Holland wrote:

> Elliot Lee wrote:
> > If you run 'gnomepager_applet' from the command line, does anything
> > interesting show up?
> 
> When I do that, I get the following message:
> 
> "** CRITICAL **: file applet-widget.c: line 668
> (gnome_panel_applet_corba_init):
> assertion `panel_client != ((void *)0)` failed."
> 
> "** CRITICAL **: file applet-widget.c: line 708 (applet_widget_new):
> assertion `corbadat!=NULL` failed."
> 
> "** ERROR **: Canīt create applet!"
> 
> "aborting..."
> "Aborted"
> 
> So, this is what I get when I type gnomepager_applet (yeah, I did
> logically have GNOME running when I typed this ;-)
> 
> If anybody can identify what these messages mean or (even better) if
> anybody knows how to solve the problem these messages are indicating,
> please drop me a line.
> 
> BTW: Someone on gnome-list@gnome.org asked if I installed the SuSE RPMs
> or the tarballs. To answer the question: I installed the tarballs.

Are you sure this is October GNOME? What does 'ldd `which
gnomepager_applet`' say?

What happens if you run any of the other applets from the cmdline (e.g.
fifteen_applet)? The same thing?

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