I ran Deskbar from the terminal which gave me the following error:
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader ERROR problem in
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py
- <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py
on line 64, but no encoding declared; see
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (converter.py, line 63)
To fix it, I just replaced the converter.py with the newest version. The
file was for some reason was an old version I also tried to use. Now
everything works like a charm. Thanks a lot for the help!
Why it looks for the file in
~/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/ I don't know,
every resource I've been looking at on the Internet says that it should
be ~/.gnome2/<and so on...>. Perhaps it's the Ubuntu version that does
it this way? It works for me nonetheless... :)
If anyone is interested, here's the output I got when running
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet -w -d from the terminal:
10-27 11:37:07 root INFO Starting Deskbar instance:
<gnome.applet.Applet object at 0x8c721e4 (PanelApplet at 0x90b8800)> None
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.Keybinder INFO Binding Global shortcut
F3 to focus the deskbar
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.CoreImpl INFO Successfully binded
Deskbar to F3
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader ERROR Error loading the
file:
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py.
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader ERROR problem in
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py
- <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py
on line 64, but no encoding declared; see
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (converter.py, line 63)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/deskbar/core/ModuleLoader.py",
line 99, in import_module
mod = pydoc.importfile (filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pydoc.py", line 266, in importfile
raise ErrorDuringImport(path, sys.exc_info())
ErrorDuringImport: problem in
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py
- <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/converter.py
on line 64, but no encoding declared; see
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (converter.py, line 63)
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Open
location' from file
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/deskbar-open-location.py.
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Calculator' from file
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/calculator-1-7.py.
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Google
Suggest' from file
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/google-suggest.py.
10-27 11:37:07 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Templates' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/templates.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Calculator' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/calculator.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleList WARNING You tried to add a
module twice. Not adding <CalculatorModule object at 0x9293aa4
(deskbar+interfaces+Module+Module at 0x8dcf2a0)> from
/home/paal/.local/share/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/calculator-1-7.py
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'History' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/history.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Mail
(Address Book)' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/evolution.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class BeagleHandler in
file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/beagle-static.py
has missing requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Yahoo!
Search' from file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/yahoo.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Yahoo!
Suggestions' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/yahoo.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Google
Code Search' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/googlecodesearch.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.Utils WARNING Icon devhelp Load Error: Icon
'devhelp' not present in theme (or Icon 'devhelp' not present in theme)
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.Utils WARNING Icon `stock_unknown' is not
present in theme
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class DevhelpHandler
in file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/programs.py has
missing requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Programs' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/programs.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Dictionary' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/programs.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Files
and Folders Search' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/programs.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Recent
Documents' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/recent.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class
MozillaBookmarksHandler in file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/mozilla.py has missing
requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class
MozillaSearchHandler in file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/mozilla.py has missing
requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class
MozillaHistoryHandler in file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/mozilla.py has missing
requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Google
Search' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/googlesearch.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'del.icio.us Bookmarks' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/desklicious.py.
10-27 11:37:08 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Window
Switcher' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/iswitch-window.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Tomboy
Notes' from file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/tomboy.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Wikipedia Suggest' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/wikipedia-suggest.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Files,
Folders and Places' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/files.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Computer Actions' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/gdmactions.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'OpenSearch' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/opensearch.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Web'
from file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/web_address.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module 'Beagle
Live' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/beagle-live.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class
EpiphanyBookmarksHandler in file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/epiphany.py has missing
requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class
EpiphanyHistoryHandler in file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/epiphany.py has missing
requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader WARNING Class
EpiphanySearchHandler in file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/epiphany.py has missing
requirements. Skipping.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'Twitter' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/twitter.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Loading module
'identi.ca' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible/twitter.py.
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing Calculator
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing Open location
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing History
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing Recent
Documents
10-27 11:37:09 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing Programs
10-27 11:37:11 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing Computer
Actions
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py:242:
DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
10-27 11:37:11 deskbar.core.ModuleLoader INFO Initializing Files and
Folders Search
10-27 11:37:11 deskbar.core.DeskbarHistory ERROR Could not restore
history
10-27 11:37:11 deskbar.core.DeskbarHistory ERROR
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/deskbar/core/DeskbarHistory.py", line
119, in load
saved_history = cPickle.load(file(HISTORY_FILE))
EOFError
(Deskbar icon is now shown in a window)
-Paul
Post by Sebastian PölsterlHi,
Post by PÃ¥l LevoldI have some problems installing the Converter Extension to Deskbar.
When I copy the files to the folder (which seems to be
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible in my case), I’m able
to add the extension and it works fine. The next time I boot my
computer however, the extension is gone from the extension list and
it's not in the “extensions with errors” list either. The file is
still in the folder, but I have to delete it and copy it over again
for it to appear in the extension list. I’m using Deskbar-applet
2.26.1 (Ubuntu repository).
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
I never experienced such problem. You may get more information from
the debug output if you first remove Deskbar from the panel and start
it from the command line with /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet
-w -d