Conky Pidgin Python Script

[HippyRandall]

Ok, it took me a while, but I finally have conky where I want it (except for RSS) anyways, I noticed there isnt a thread devoted to gtk-desktop-info.
I'd like to see one similar to the "show your conkyrc and a screenshot" thread.
I'd like to see what novel uses it's been put towards. It would also help me to visualize its capabilities and help me to use it.

You missed it in K's sig:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6366056

Hippy

[Gnounc]

oHo. haha thanks. How I missed that I dont know.

[kaivalagi]

INSTALL UPDATE

New instructions on setting up the repository in your system have been added to the first post, as follows

Remove any existing /etc/apt/sources.list entry before or after doing this!

1) Create the necessary list file for access to the repository by running this:

sudo wget -q http://www.kaivalagi.com/m-buck-ppa.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/m-buck-ppa.list

2) Add the repository public key to your apt setup by running this:

wget -q http://www.kaivalagi.com/m-buck-ppa-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

[jim_mule]

oh how i want this to work. but i keep getting this:

ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:im.pidgin.purple.ObjectNotFound: The return object is not mapped (this is a Purple error)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/conkypidgin/conkyPidgin.py", line 323, in writeOutput
    for pidginData in pidginDataList:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
ERROR: Unknown error when calling writeOutput:'NoneType' object is not iterable

i am running intrepid, all updates made, gnome/pidgin all is fine and running and conky too. what can i do?

[kaivalagi]

oh how i want this to work. but i keep getting this:

ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:im.pidgin.purple.ObjectNotFound: The return object is not mapped (this is a Purple error)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/conkypidgin/conkyPidgin.py", line 323, in writeOutput
    for pidginData in pidginDataList:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
ERROR: Unknown error when calling writeOutput:'NoneType' object is not iterable

i am running intrepid, all updates made, gnome/pidgin all is fine and running and conky too. what can i do?

It looks like Pidgin isn't running? The dbus service for pidgin isn't getting connected.

What version of Pidgin are you running? run this in the terminal:

pidgin -v

I get:

Pidgin 2.5.2

[jim_mule]

yes, pidgin -v = Pidgin 2.5.2 and pidgin is in the taskbar.
thanks for the quick reply.

[kaivalagi]

yes, pidgin -v = Pidgin 2.5.2 and pidgin is in the taskbar.
thanks for the quick reply.

I have created a small test script which looks for available dbus services on your pc that match some text, in this case "pidgin".

Grab the attached and put it anywhere on your PC, then run it in the terminal like this:

python /path/to/file/testdbus.py

I get:

Searching dbus services...
found: im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService
finished searching

[jim_mule]

1st time i tried your script i got the following:

./testdbus.py 
Searching dbus services...
found: im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService
finished searching

so i then gave conky another try:

ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/conkypidgin/conkyPidgin.py", line 323, in writeOutput
    for pidginData in pidginDataList:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
ERROR: Unknown error when calling writeOutput:'NoneType' object is not iterable

tried the script again, after this restart of conky with conkyPidgin, and i get:

./testdbus.py 
Searching dbus services...
finished searching

mystery to me...

[jim_mule]

hmmm.
mystery remains.
but i restarted pidgin. i did just a conkyPidgin on the command line, and no error, so put it back into my .conkyrc, and restarted conky again, and all is well. sometimes i still think the computer is run by elves with mood swings. thanks for the help, im happy to get pidgin into conky, brilliant.

[kaivalagi]

hmmm.
mystery remains.
but i restarted pidgin. i did just a conkyPidgin on the command line, and no error, so put it back into my .conkyrc, and restarted conky again, and all is well. sometimes i still think the computer is run by elves with mood swings. thanks for the help, im happy to get pidgin into conky, brilliant.

Maybe uninstall and reinstall pidgin? I am at a loss as to why the dbus service comes and goes...