Nick Lemaire's questions

I know the question is a bit vague. I'll try to explain better below:

My app (python/gtk) is mostly an indicator. Using this indicator you can choose to show/hide the main window.

When I try to open a new instance of the app I made it so it would check if the app is already running. If so, it would abort trying to run the app.

Now I want to adjust it, so before aborting I want it to bring the already active app's main window to the foreground. Even if this window isn't opened at the moment.

So I believe my question is: How can I get a (global?) variable/instance of my already active app from my new app? (so I can bring my main window to the foreground)

EDIT:

I just found this method in the api: GtkWindow - set_startup_id().

This says: Normally, startup identifier is managed automatically and you should only use this function in special cases like transferring focus from other processes.

So this means it should be possible to bring focus to a window from another process. But how would I get this id? And how would I use this id to bring it to the foreground?

I'm trying to create a dynamic quicklist for an application I'm developing in quickly.

This is the line of code I use to try and connect to the .desktop file:

self.launcher = Unity.LauncherEntry.get_for_desktop_id("my-app.desktop")

For testing purposes, I've found that when using quickly run I should copy the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications. When I do this, the quicklist shows up correctly.

However, when packaging my app using quickly package --extras, and installing this package, I get a launcher without quicklist.

Does this have something to do with my app being installed in /opt? Meaning my desktop file is located somewhere else? Should I use another reference to the desktop file?

EDIT:

I've tried to find the .desktop file. But I can't seem to locate it.. Does this mean I should generate one myself? and that I should link to that file?

I'm using quickly and I can't seem to upload to my ppa. This is what I get:

$ quickly share --ppa swink/ppa
Get Launchpad Settings
Launchpad connection is ok
.........An error has occurred when creating debian packaging
ERROR: can't create or update ubuntu package
ERROR: share command failed
Aborting

I can create a package but I do get a warning:

$ quickly package --extras
........Ubuntu packaging created in debian/
............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Command returned some WARNINGS:
----------------------------------
** (setup.py:26291): WARNING **: Error sending credentials: Error sending message: Operation not permitted
----------------------------------
Ubuntu package has been successfully created in ../unity-bookmarks_1.0-public4_all.deb

What could be the issue?

Edit:

when I run debuild -S, I get this: clearsign failed: secret key not available

Edit 2:

I even tried to setup a fresh pgp key, but I get exactly the same errors...

I am developing a program using quickly. I am using an indicator which can hide/show the main window.

But when I launch the application from the launcher it starts a new instance of that application (so an additional indicator will be shown). Rather than just showing the main window of the previous running app.

What's the usual way of forcing only one indicator?

I get an error when trying to package my quickly application:

$ quickly package
........Ubuntu packaging created in debian/
............An error has occurred during package building
ERROR: package command failed
Aborting

It doesn't really give me an indication of what went wrong. It used to work before.

If you need to take a look at the code:

lp:~koukin/+junk/unity-bookmarks

I was wondering if it was possible have a command that creates one file, but every time the command is executed, it wouldn't overwrite the file created in the previous execution.

For example: touch test1.txt would create 1 file called test1.txt. But the next time I execute it, I would like the new file to be called test2.txt, or something like that. So without overwriting the already existing file. In a way it could be executed multiple times without problems.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not trying to create multiple files with one command.

Thanks in advance!

I installed CoverGloobus on my ubuntu 10.10. But every time I try to run it, I get this error:

[WARNING] Using default configuration
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "covergloobus-config.py", line 32, in <module>
    Configuration.run()
  File "/usr/share/covergloobus/widgets/configuration.py", line 94, in run
    Configuration.__instance = Configuration(cg)
  File "/usr/share/covergloobus/widgets/configuration.py", line 155, in __init__
    self.make_pages()
  File "/usr/share/covergloobus/widgets/configuration.py", line 165, in make_pages
    page = method()
  File "/usr/share/covergloobus/widgets/configuration.py", line 432, in make_lyrics
    for klass in GenericLyric.load():
  File "/usr/share/covergloobus/lyrics/__init__.py", line 34, in load
    __import__('lyrics.' + name[:-3])
  File "/usr/share/covergloobus/lyrics/lyricswikia.py", line 26, in <module>
    from lyrics import GenericLyric
ImportError: cannot import name GenericLyric

Does anybody know how to fix this?

I used VMware on ubuntu 10.04 for quite a while. When 10.10 was released I did a clean install. I tried to reinstall VMware, but after installing, I wasn't able to compile the modules. Does anybody know how to fix this?