Google gadgets won't show up after restart ?

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Google gadgets won't show up after restart?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
it won't start up

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest , ubuntu 10.04

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rishmawi...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2010 at 5:19

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I don't know if this will help but ..I had the same problem and all I did was 
right click on the Google Gadget application and said to add to startup 
programes.

hope this helps.

Original comment by erick.ga...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2010 at 4:48

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I met the same case. 
I found that there would be a socket file ~/.google/gadgets/ggl-host-socket not 
removed, if GGL wasn't closed manually. then this file will block other GGL 
starting attempts.
In order to start GGL, I have to remove the file manually.

I suspect GGL is using ~/.google/gadgets/ggl-host-socket to do process 
single-instance checking.

Due the problem I met, GGL may have to be improved for this single-install 
checking. Recording a process id file may be a good choice.

Original comment by duyang....@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2011 at 2:09