[Bug] Make skype-wrapper work without Unity

[ochosi]

Currently skype-wrapper crashes (ungracefully) when launched in an environment that is not Unity. I'm using Xubuntu, but would like to have skype's messaging deposited in the messaging indicator. It would be nice if skype-wrapper could detect it's not in Unity and try to just use the indicator then. Thanks for your work and consideration!

[sagetarian]

thanks :) can you start skype-wrapper in terminal and tell me the output

[ochosi]

thanks for your quick reply! this is the output, as you can see it gets stuck in a loop looking for "unitylauncher".

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject skype_wrapper.log: command not found close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertiong_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 954, in <module> skype = SkypeBehaviour(); File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 557, in __init__ unitylauncher.launcher.SkypeAgent = self.skype.Client NameError: global name 'unitylauncher' is not defined close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertiong_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 954, in skype = SkypeBehaviour(); File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 557, in init unitylauncher.launcher.SkypeAgent = self.skype.Client NameError: global name 'unitylauncher' is not defined close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertiong_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 954, in <module> skype = SkypeBehaviour(); File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 557, in __init__ unitylauncher.launcher.SkypeAgent = self.skype.Client NameError: global name 'unitylauncher' is not defined close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertiong_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 954, in skype = SkypeBehaviour(); File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 557, in init unitylauncher.launcher.SkypeAgent = self.skype.Client NameError: global name 'unitylauncher' is not defined close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion`g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 954, in skype = SkypeBehaviour(); File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 557, in init unitylauncher.launcher.SkypeAgent = self.skype.Client NameError: global name 'unitylauncher' is not defined close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr

[sagetarian]

anytime :) what do you get when you run this:

dpkg -l unity | grep "ii unity"

or

dpkg -l unity-2d | grep "ii unity-2d"

in terminal

[ochosi]

I get nothing (most likely because I don't have Unity or Unity-2d installed) :)

[sagetarian]

no worries .. i've sorted the issue out .. will send an update after later tonight :) will be in 0.6.2

[sagetarian]

https://github.com/downloads/sagetarian/skype-wrapper/skype-wrapper_0ubuntu6.2.0~oneiric1_all.deb

here we go .. haven't push changes to the repo yet cause i have to leave the office for the next few hours

[sagetarian]

let me know if it works :) would be great to support Xubuntu

[ochosi]

just installed/tested the package you built, but it seems it gets into yet another loop for missing wnck (libwnck-3-0, libwnck-common and libwnck22 are installed):

Starting skype-wrapper /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 34, in <module> import helpers File "/usr/share/skype-wrapper/helpers.py", line 35, in <module> import wnck ImportError: No module named wnck Applet closed API crash detected Restarting skype-wrapper /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertiong_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 34, in import helpers File "/usr/share/skype-wrapper/helpers.py", line 35, in import wnck ImportError: No module named wnck Applet closed API crash detected Restarting skype-wrapper /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject Traceback (most recent call last): File "indicator-applet-skype.py", line 34, in import helpers File "/usr/share/skype-wrapper/helpers.py", line 35, in import wnck ImportError: No module named wnck Applet closed API crash detected Restarting skype-wrapper

[ochosi]

sorry, python-wnck wasn't installed, my bad.

it seems like it's working now (notifications are there, messaging-menu integration is also there), i'll test it for a while and report back whether everything works as expected.

thanks again for your prompt support!

[grissir]

Thanks for the feedback