One of the things I miss in linux was the windows Gmail notifier. There is a linux version, written in Python, but it wasn't working in a 64 bit distribution. If you tried to run it out of the box, you would get the dreaded “wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32” exception, because the distributed shared object to create a tray icon was compiled in 32 bits. If you tried to grab another version compiled in 64 bits, you now got the “undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4” error, which was caused because some file headers were redefined and renamed to avoid conflicts (sic!) in 64 bits. I was going nuts at this point, because I am most certainly not a Python programmer. But I still managed to find a fix, before everybody else on the net, woohoo!<\/p>\n
A simple cure in 3 easy steps<\/p>\n
1. get package python-gnome2-extras
\n2. change a few lines in notify.py as described below:<\/p>\n
#comment out the pytrayicon import and import egg and egg.trayicon
\n#import pytrayicon
\nimport egg
\nimport egg.trayicon<\/p>\n
#change the way the tray object is built
\n#create the tray icon object
\n#self.tray = pytrayicon.TrayIcon(self.lang.get_string(21));
\nself.tray = egg.trayicon.TrayIcon(self.lang.get_string(21));<\/p>\n
3. enjoy!<\/p>\n
Works like a charm :D<\/p>\n
This makes me go squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things I miss in linux was the windows Gmail notifier. There is a linux version, written in Python, but it wasn't working in a 64 bit distribution. If you tried to run it out of the box, you would get the dreaded “wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32” exception, because the distributed shared object…<\/p>\n