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I'm writing a very simple app using Glade and PyGtk. In the app, I need to collect user inputs and parse it as a conf file. In order to dump all the freetext user inputs to a StringIO, I am using the on_xxxxxxxx_activate signal.This solution requires the user to hit Enter for the signal to be emitted. Instead I would like to use a signal which emits on focus change (switching to any other field). Does PyGtk provide a signal like that?

Addendum:

The behaviour I am looking for here is the one used by gtk_editable_insert_text. Is there a way of linking a GtkEditable's signal to GtkEntry?

I'm working on a very simple app for Ubuntu. I've asked a question on stackoverflow, and it seems that the issue I am having is caused by signals, not by the scope of variables, as I originally thought. The problem I am having is that when TextBox emits a signal through activate the whole code works without a glitch. But when I change the signal to insert-at-click it returns NameErrors in every non-TextBox-linked function. Now, It is highly possible I am doing something completely wrong here, but is it at least probable that signals could affect global variable assignments?

The code in its current form giving me NameErrors:

def on_servername_insertatcursor(self, widget):
global output  
output = StringIO.StringIO()         
servername = widget.get_text()
output.write("USHARE_NAME="+servername+'\n')

def on_netif_changed(self, widget):
netif = widget.get_active_text()
global output
output.write("USHARE_IFACE="+netif+'\n')

def on_port_insertatcursor(self, widget):
global output
port = widget.get_text()
output.write("USHARE_PORT="+port+'\n')

def on_telprt_insertatcursor(self, widget):
global output
telprt = widget.get_text()
output.write("USHARE_TELNET_PORT="+telprt+'\n')

def on_dirs_insertatcursor(self, widget):
global output
dirs = widget.get_text()
output.write("USHARE_DIR="+dirs+'\n')

def on_iconv_toggled(self, widget):
global output
iconv = widget.get_active()
if iconv == True:
    output.write("USHARE_OVERRIDE_ICONV_ERR="+"True"+'\n')
else:
    output.write("USHARE_OVERRIDE_ICONV_ERR="+"False"+'\n')

def on_webif_toggled(self, widget):
global output
webif = widget.get_active()
if webif == True:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_WEB="+"yes"+'\n')
else:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_WEB="+"no"+'\n')

def on_telif_toggled(self, widget):
global output
telif = widget.get_active()
if telif == True:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_TELNET="+"yes"+'\n')
else:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_TELNET="+"no"+'\n')

def on_xbox_toggled(self, widget):
global output
xbox = widget.get_active()
if xbox == True:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX="+"yes"+'\n')
else:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX="+"no"+'\n')

def on_dlna_toggled(self, widget):
global output
dlna = widget.get_active()
if dlna == True:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_DLNA="+"yes"+'\n')
else:
    output.write("USHARE_ENABLE_DLNA="+"no"+'\n')

def on_commit_clicked(self, widget):
commit = output.getvalue()
logfile = open('/home/boywithaxe/Desktop/ushare.conf','w')
logfile.write(commit)

def on_endprogram_clicked(self, widget):
sys.exit(0)

I used this answer to change the editor used with quickly and it worked, however now,when I type quickly edit the command line stays on the open and does not allow me to enter other commands as long as Sublime Text 2 is open. I realise this is a daft question, but I can't seem to find a way to get around it.

I've written a small app that creates a GUI for setting up uShare. Currently it depends heavily on the 'w' (write) and 'a' (append) functions to generate/edit ushare.conf file. But I've been trying to find a way for the app to store all the changes until a save button is pressed, and only then committing them to the actual file. I think that would be the best way of getting around having the user press enter every time they change any field (and indeed allow for GtkCheckButton).

I'm trying to add a text Combo Box into my app. I've created in and populated the list but when I I try to print out the active text I get an error.

Here's the part of the code in question:

    def on_netif_changed(self, widget):
    netif = widget.gtk_combo_box_text_get_active_text()
    print netif

And the error I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/boywithaxe/Developer/Quickly/broadcast/broadcast/BroadcastWindow.py", line 44, in on_netif_changed
netif = widget.gtk_combo_box_text_get_active_text()
AttributeError: 'ComboBoxText' object has no attribute 'gtk_combo_box_text_get_active_text'

I'm a bit at a loss here, I've no problem betting text from text boxes, but this seems a completely different issue. I tried RTFMing but came up short. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I read this thread but it doesn't really address my issue. The problem that I have is that whenever I log in, conky starts up, as set up in Startup Applications, but the instance it runs is dropping shadow and is above every other window, showing the wallpaper beneath it. This can be easily fixed by relaunching conky, but that defeats the purpose of having it start up at login. Also, running conky at any point manually after logging does not cause this. Any suggestions? I rewrote the script and played about with Compiz, but it still keeps happening.

I know there is a way of doing it in Cairo dock (see this Q&A), but I love the Unity Launcher and would like to keep using that. I've spent so much time working with stacks before that starting to use the dashboard to get to stuff is counterproductive for me. Is there any tweak that allows stacks (NOT QUICKLISTS) in the launcher?

PS Dean Howell suggested using the files lens, and frankly it is sort of what I am looking for, but invoking it takes long enough so that it defeats the purpose of using it in the first place. But this gave me an idea. Is it at all possible to "dock" a lens on the launcher, so that it would show the dash focused on a certain directory?

The HDD I have my Ubuntu installed is about to fail. I would rather not lose 3 years worth of data, customisation and apps. I am looking for a way to move the complete system (SWAP included, because I'm not sure if I can relink the system to a new SWAP partition) to another HDD. But not the complete HDD< only the partition containing Ubuntu, to a partition on a different HDD. Basically I'd like to do what I've been able to do with Norton Ghost for my Windows install. I thought about using Clonezilla but I think I would have issues with GRUB (Especially trying to boot from a different UUID than what is in the conf file). do you know of any way this could be done?

PS, my home directory is encrypted but that's not really an issue, because I can work around that.

EDIT: changed the explanation to make it clearer

I cannot run an update or indeed run $: apt-get remove due to a dpkg error with a package that's a part of super-boot-manager. Running an update returns:

dpkg: error processing burg-theme-minimal-sir (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I tried removing this package alone, with the same error, also trying to remove super-boot-manager returns:

(Reading database ... 225474 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing burg-theme-minimal-sir ...
Generating burg.cfg ...
/usr/sbin/burg-probe: error: cannot stat `/boot/burg/locale'.
No path or device is specified.
Try `/usr/sbin/burg-probe --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing burg-theme-minimal-sir (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                          Removing super-boot-manager ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
burg-theme-minimal-sir
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm sort of stuck now and Google has failed me. Has anyone encountered this problem before? Or does anyone know a way for fixing this?

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Just like in the title,

boywithaxe@Xerxes:~$ sudo ecryptfs-migrate-home -u test
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