Hope this helps. EventCalendar will work fine with Ubuntu 9.04, but won't work with Ubuntu 9.10 (amd64 installation, alpha5). $ python --version Python 2.6.2+ $ python EventCalendarScreenlet.py CachingBackend: Loading instances from cache CachingBackend: Loading <EventCalendar1> Creating new entry for EventCalendarScreenlet in /tmp/screenlets/screenlets.user.running Loading instances in: /home/user/.config/Screenlets/EventCalendar/default/ File: EventCalendar1.ini LOAD NEW THEME: default FOUND: /home/user/.screenlets/EventCalendar/themes/default theme.conf found! Loading option-overrides. theme.conf loaded: Name: Default Author: Martin Zuther Version: 1.0 Info: Default theme (very simple) Override: width Override: height Traceback (most recent call last): File "EventCalendarScreenlet.py", line 652, in <module> screenlets.session.create_session(EventCalendarScreenlet) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/session.py", line 472, in create_session session.start() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/session.py", line 237, in start if self.__load_instances(): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/session.py", line 391, in __load_instances sl = self.create_instance(id=filename[:-4], enable_saving=False) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/session.py", line 143, in create_instance sl = self.screenlet(id=id, session=self, **keyword_args) File "EventCalendarScreenlet.py", line 108, in __init__ self.theme_name = "default" File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/__init__.py", line 899, in __setattr__ self.load_theme(path) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/__init__.py", line 1309, in load_theme self.theme.apply_option_overrides(self) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/__init__.py", line 233, in apply_option_overrides screenlet.update_shape() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/screenlets/__init__.py", line 1467, in update_shape self.on_draw_shape(ctx) File "EventCalendarScreenlet.py", line 495, in on_draw_shape self.on_draw(ctx) File "EventCalendarScreenlet.py", line 327, in on_draw ctx.mask_surface(group_pattern.get_surface(), \ SystemError: NULL object passed to Py_BuildValue $ ./EventDatabase.py [application-version] EventCalendarScreenlet v0.19a1 [application-copyrights] (c) 2009 Martin Zuther [application-license] This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Thank you for using free software! [pal-options] configfile = /home/user/.pal/pal.conf days_in_future = 21 self.days_in_past = 7 (8 including today) self.regex_format_age = (.*) \((\d+)\)$ self.date_format = %B %d [pal-date_fmt] %a %e %b %Y [pal-command] pal --nocolor -c 0 -r 8-21 -f /home/user/.pal/pal.conf [pal-output] dom 13 sep 2009 - hace 3 días * XXXX * XXXX mié 16 sep 2009 - Hoy * XXXX dom 4 oct 2009 - en 18 días * XXXX (septiembre 13) XXXX XXXX *** septiembre 16 *** XXXX octubre 04 XXXX

The problem is this call in EventCalendarScreenlet.py: ctx.mask_surface(group_pattern.get_surface(), \ shadow_x_offset, shadow_y_offset) Specifically group_pattern.get_surface() I'm not sure what went wrong but in my distro (Ubuntu) since the last version (Karmic) there's some changes in librsvg and python-rsvg that might have caused the issue. For the users, edit the file EventCalendarScreenlet.py and comment out those two lines by adding the symbol # at the beggining of each line (you can also delete them): #ctx.mask_surface(group_pattern.get_surface(), \ #shadow_x_offset, shadow_y_offset) It works here..

Forgot to add, those lines only loads the SVG file for the background. No other functionality is lost by deleting the lines.

loving the concept of this screenlet though. hopefully you can work out this bug so i may use it!

from this 2 lines of output "name = result.group(1) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'" it seems like result.group doesn't exist. that means that object result isn'n initialized, and because of that it doesnt contain attribute group... hope that helps... :S

same thing happen to me. Installed when I run it did not show.