Porteus

Good day everyone!

I was wondering if there's a way to get Widgets working on Porteus 4.0 x64 LXDE desktop environment. I have done it on Lubuntu 18.04 with Conky before, but I tried getting Conky and Conky Manager from https://pkgs.org/ (Slackware Current), including those on the "Requires" section of the page (because I assume they're also needed for it to work) and using txz2xzm command on the terminal to convert them, and while Conky Manager appears on the menu in LXDE, once I click it it stays loading for a few seconds (mouse pointer has the looping circle animation right next to it and USB drive shows activity with its light), it does nothing afterwards. It's not on Task Manager either so the process was never started or it failed to, but without an error screen.

I also heard some Linux distributions use Screenlets which is something similar to Conky but I couldn't find any Slackware packages on https://pkgs.org/ nor any discussion about it on Porteus forums, so that was a dead end for me as well.

All I want is a Widget that can monitor my internet usage and speeds (downloads/uploads) on the desktop, I am not interested in weather widgets for example (so any weather alternative like a program wouldn't help me in this case).

Is there any other alternative that I don't know of, or a fix I can try to Conky Manager not opening? Thank you in advance!

try running in terminal: to see if there is any useful output
also might show some missing libs (possibly json-glib and libgee)
i suspect that you may also need some deps for conky..

It seems I was missing a lib indeed, although I run into the same problem I did with Screenlets (can't find Slackware package on https://pkgs.org/)

Try here (look for json-glib): http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/ ... kware64/l/

Got the json-glib module from that page, now it says this:



And when I open it from the LXDE menu:

import is part of imagemagick : http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/ ... 6_64-1.txz

I got imagemagick and Conky Manager now opens in both the terminal and the menu!



Although as you can see, trying to enable any of the default Widgets doesn't bring it to the top right of the desktop.

I tried running Conky (not manager) from the terminal and it says this



Maybe I am still missing that for Conky Manager to work properly? I tried finding it on https://pkgs.org/ and the website fulalas provided, but there is no libImlib2.so.1 in any of them.

Is there another archive website for Slackware modules I can try?

imlib2 is what you're after, and most likely tolua
http://slakfinder.org/ is quite handy, you can use the 'filename' search box to find specific libs in packages..
there's also porteus's own package manager usm which can handle a lot of dependency issues(including lib searches)