Comments on: Hamster time tracker in system tray

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:40:12 +0000

OK solved. I simply added it to “boot application” (I have it in italian, not sure this is the name in english) under the shut down menu.
I’m on Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 2. Finally, to make it work, I had to add to the bar the applet “notification area”, because “complete indicator” wouldn’t show it.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:22:03 +0000

Hi! The script is working, but i’m not able to automatically run it at boot

I tried putting the script in /etc/init.d/ and adding path to the script in /etc/rc.local but it won’t load and in some cases I receive “Ubuntu has encountered a problem, send report?” message.

Any suggestion from someone who made it?

Thanks

By: Bub

Bub — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:36:57 +0000

[code]
# ./hamster-tray

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./hamster-tray", line 45, in
from hamster.lib import stuff
ImportError: No module named lib
[/code]

By: Luke Stanley

Luke Stanley — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:02:07 +0000

Hmm now system tray is default, since gtk and pygtk can be easily installed on Mac OS X now, if dbus was also installable, or not needed, and the dependencies on gnome were optional, this would be great on Mac too, for those of us that have to switch around.
I confirmed that pyGTK does have a system tray icon that works on Mac.
I haven’t got around to testing this much, but it doesn’t work yet.

By: Jakub Neubauer

Jakub Neubauer — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:28:30 +0000

warning: somehow the apostrophe and double quote characters went wrong in my latest post.

By: Jakub Neubauer

Jakub Neubauer — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:26:35 +0000

Hi!
Without handling various version issues, I’m going with this in Xfce environment:
I added “Generic Monitor” applet to xfce panel with this command:

bash -c “hamster-cli list | grep ‘^ *[0-9:]\+ – *(‘ | sed ‘s/^.*| *//’”

(with 5 seconds update interval)

And just next to this applet I added a quick-launch button to run ‘hamster-time-tracker’ command.
A little bit ugly, but works.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:44:11 +0000

Thanks, Kat. So you run three applications to get Hamster in the System Tray? Hamster standalone, _and_ the applet version, _and_ your version?

Maybe I’m confused. Where is the “module named lib” supposed to be? Using the locate command I cannot find anything that seems relevant. How would your hamster-tray know where to go looking for the file if it is not in a relative path (implying that it was packaged along with the hamste-tray files) or /usr/bin?

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:38:04 +0000

Hmmm, strange. In Archlinux I have a hamster standalone (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48737) as well as the applet version (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49264). If you can figure out the difference between the two build scripts, then you’re good to go!

I can’t tell if it’s because of the extra build steps or missing python scripts or if it’s something else. I hope that leads you in the right direction!

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:40:55 +0000

Thanks, Kat! Actually, I do have Python 2.7 installed so I made a soft link from python2 to python2.7. Regarding the second error, I am in fact using Hamster 2.32.1.

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:16:54 +0000

Your first problem is due to the fact that (Flux/K/X)Ubuntu has python 3 installed by default and not python 2. If you also install python 2, you won’t get the bad interpreter error.

To fix the second problem, I had to downgrade to hamster-applet 2.32.1. You can find the source here: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/hamster-applet/2.32/hamster-applet-2.32.1.tar.bz2