StackApplet — Bringing Stack Exchange Notifications to Your Desktop [Large scale rewrite in progress]

Question

Rewrite In Progress

I am currently in the process of completely rewriting this application from scratch. The code for the old version was an absolute disaster, written nearly four years ago when I first started learning Python. The new version will be written in Python 3 and use PyQt5.

Unfortunately I don't have a timeline on this new version but a rough guess for an early release would be early July 2014. Eventually I hope to get an actual stable release ready for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic) in October. Windows builds will be released when time permits.

(I will also add a link to the project page on GitHub once I am a little bit further into this.)

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About

StackApplet is a small status icon that sits in your desktop's notification area and alerts you to events that happen to your accounts. You will receive notifications about new answers, comments and reputation changes. All Stack Exchange sites are supported. The application is written in Python and the preferences page uses JavaScript.

License

MIT License

Download

Packages are available for the latest stable release (1.5.2):

Microsoft Windows, get the EXE installer
Debian-based distributions, get the DEB installer
Red Hat-based distributions, get the RPM installer
Generic archive

Platform

Windows XP/Vista/7/8 or a Linux distribution with PyGTK installed.

Contact

I can be reached at admin@quickmediasolutions.com.

Source

Available on Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/stackapplet

The ultimate StackOverflow addict luxury. To see your reputation at all times. — Tyler Carter, May 20 '10 at 23:31
Yup. It really helps me stay on top of my rep. Are you going to try it? I am eager to hear how it works. — Nathan Osman, May 20 '10 at 23:41
You might want to use f = open(os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"),"/.stackoverflow"),'r') to open your settings. — Flame, May 21 '10 at 00:37
@Flame: Thanks, man. I am completely new to Gnome desktop programming :) I'm assuming it worked alright, though? — Nathan Osman, May 21 '10 at 00:57
George, would you mind if I 'borrowed' your stackoverflow icon? At least until there are "official" releases of icons/images? — Nick Presta, May 21 '10 at 04:19
works for me. pretty cool. I've gotta say though, its a little weird when it loads Jeff Atwood's stats on the first run. — Chris Lawlor, May 27 '10 at 00:47
@Chris: Well... it kind of has to display something when it first starts. Do you have any ideas of what would you like to see it display? — Nathan Osman, May 27 '10 at 00:52
@George something simple like 'Configure User'. Should be easy to default to userid = 0 or -1 or null, and check for that at startup. — Chris Lawlor, May 28 '10 at 13:44
Too bad it doesn't support multiple instances (so I can track my rep on more than one site), otherwise great! :) — Felix, Jun 09 '10 at 19:33
StackApplet worked very well for me for a week or so, but suddenly it started displaying "HTTP Error" and no matter what I do I can't get it to work again. It doesn't even show an icon. Is this something known? — Peter Jaric, Jun 28 '10 at 19:32
@Peter: The API changed versions from 0.8 to 0.9 - You need to download the appropriate file again from the list above. All of the files above have been updated now and should work. If that still doesn't solve your problem, please let me know. — Nathan Osman, Jun 28 '10 at 20:05
I see. Maybe you should have updated the version to 1.0.1 (or something like that) to indicate that it is a new version? :) — Peter Jaric, Jun 28 '10 at 20:26
I don't want to give the wrong impression: thanks for a great app!!! — Peter Jaric, Jun 28 '10 at 20:33
@Peter: No, thank you for the complement and giving me a heads-up on that. I do have a few more features planned still... :) — Nathan Osman, Jun 28 '10 at 22:55
@George: May I suggest that you add a check box "Display user name". My user name takes up quite some space, and I already know it :) An SO icon and the rep 2 or 3 pixels after that is enough for me. — Peter Jaric, Jul 01 '10 at 16:16
@Peter: I made some pretty large-scale changes to it... please let me know what you think! (I will still add the feature to remove your username - don't worry.) — Nathan Osman, Jul 09 '10 at 08:05
@Peter: I added your option to it - you can now display reputation only! — Nathan Osman, Jul 10 '10 at 01:13
Search for StackApplet in the Software Center turned up no results, but sudo apt-get install stackapplet worked fine. Odd. — Matchu, Aug 19 '10 at 23:57
@George Is it possible to install this without root privileges? We are here at the university running Karmic and we can only request package installs that are in the repositories... — Peter Smit, Aug 27 '10 at 06:58
@George, I installed to fedora 12 (2.6.32.16-141.fc12.x86_64) and my panel will not autohide now. Any ideas? — Chris, Aug 27 '10 at 13:25
@Peter: Well, it actually is in the Maverick repository right now. Would they let you install it from there? — Nathan Osman, Aug 27 '10 at 15:27
@Chris: Weird. I just tried autohide and it works for me on Ubuntu 10.04. I have a VM with Fedora 11... I'll give that a try. — Nathan Osman, Aug 27 '10 at 15:28
@Chris: I tried it in Fedora 11, but it seems to work okay in there too. Does your panel autohide when the applet is removed? — Nathan Osman, Aug 27 '10 at 16:14
@George Yeah... it will take until june 2011 before we get that one here at university... :( — Peter Smit, Aug 27 '10 at 18:40
@George and @Chris I managed to install the sources in my home directory and set the bonobo path right. Working now! — Peter Smit, Aug 27 '10 at 18:40
@George Are you taking any patches? I think I would like to see things as automated related account fetching, notifying of answers on questions and favorites, links to the sites straight from the panel. Maybe I could contribute some features. — Peter Smit, Aug 27 '10 at 18:42
@Peter: I'm curious to know how you installed it to your home directory - I couldn't figure it out when I tried. — Nathan Osman, Aug 27 '10 at 19:15
@Peter: As for the features you requested... I have actually implemented some of them... they just haven't made their way into the DEB yet. You can find the source code at http://launchpad.net/stackapplet as well as a place to file bugs / submit feature requests. — Nathan Osman, Aug 27 '10 at 19:16
I'll maybe try to get the changes into my PPA later so you can try it. — Nathan Osman, Aug 27 '10 at 19:17
@PeterSmit: I made a DEB available for 1.3rc1. The link is above. — Nathan Osman, Aug 30 '10 at 19:47
I've just added the applet via ppa on my Maverick system. It sits so pretty on my panel. @George thank you! — marenostrum, Oct 24 '10 at 17:05
I'd be great to make it multithreaded in Windows. It freezes a lot with my connection :( — Oscar Mederos, May 04 '11 at 04:22
@Oscar: Actually I'm in the process of doing that. Look for StackApplet 1.5 sometime before the summer (hopefully). — Nathan Osman, May 04 '11 at 04:46
It's not working for me on Windows XP SP3, the program won't even load. Help! — rdrgrtz, Jun 01 '11 at 15:21
@George: Nope...I even tried installing Python 2.7.1 for Windows, but no go. — rdrgrtz, Jun 01 '11 at 17:10
@Rod: Well... unfortunately I'm really not sure what could cause that. But I would certainly like to find out. If you are willing to try a debug version, we might be able to find out some more information. You can download it here. Then open a command window and type 'C:\Program Files\StackApplet\stackapplet.exe'. — Nathan Osman, Jun 03 '11 at 00:05
@Rod: Feel free to email it to me: admin@quickmediasolutions.com — Nathan Osman, Jun 03 '11 at 17:36
@Nunu: I may have this fixed now. Please download this file and let me know if it works. — Nathan Osman, Jun 11 '11 at 00:50
@George, will this work in Fedora 15 under the new Gnome 3? Is it in the repositories? — rdrgrtz, Jul 27 '11 at 16:07
@rdr: It's not in the Fedora repositories, though it should work fine under Fedora with Gnome 3. — Nathan Osman, Jul 27 '11 at 17:00
@George, wow! this app really works well in Fedora 15! Thanks! — rdrgrtz, Jul 27 '11 at 21:51
@rdr: Great! I'm glad to hear that. I put a lot of effort into making sure it would run in just about any Linux distro. — Nathan Osman, Jul 27 '11 at 23:55
Hey, did you see that Stack Applet is the top application by API usage? http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/09/stack-exchange-api-usage-stats-and-api-2-0-plans/ — andrewsomething, Sep 30 '11 at 07:38
Have a nice new gold badge :) Now, could you make it work again? It's not working atm, and the reviews on the USC page confirm that — Manishearth, Feb 17 '13 at 07:04
@Manishearth: Actually, the story gets a bit complicated here. The latest stable version (1.5.1) works just fine. The problem is that the latest version in the archives is 1.4 - which is old and broken. I'd love to get the latest version into the archives but it's something that a Debian maintainer has to do. I've talked to someone who said they would do it when they got a chance... but nothing's happened yet. In the meantime, you can install it from my PPA. — Nathan Osman, Feb 17 '13 at 20:26
Hmm, after installing it I ran it and there wasn't any visible change. (I'm on precise). I also navigated to the stackapplet folder and directly ran python stackapplet.py, but that just did nothing (without any error, and without giving me back the terminal). Any idea how I should run it? — Manishearth, Feb 18 '13 at 07:55
That's odd. What version of Ubuntu are you using? What desktop environment are you running? — Nathan Osman, Feb 18 '13 at 20:06
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:george-edison55/george-edison sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install stackapplet=1.5.1-0~201211040213~quantal1 This works great for a brand new install of 12.10(QQ). — James, Mar 06 '13 at 13:07
@Buscar웃: Unfortunately I do not have a Mac and therefore cannot make and test packages for OS X. However, if you have Python and PyGTK installed, there's no reason a Mac user couldn't download the source code and build it. — Nathan Osman, Apr 16 '13 at 21:53
Open a PayPall donations account and you will get money to bu a Mac with all the donations you will get for this great work. — Ruskes, Apr 16 '13 at 22:01
For Mac OS X users there's a similar app: http://stackapps.com/q/3081/18656 — jobukkit, Jun 11 '13 at 05:49
The first set of links in your question are dead links (HTTP_404) — Canadian Luke, Nov 01 '13 at 18:52
I get a "network error" for all my accounts, could this be a firewall problem? How can this issue be resolved? — Ciaran Gallagher, Dec 06 '13 at 15:46
@NathanOsborn: Question, is this ever going to be ported to OS X? I really think that this would be a useful addition to your app. — RPiAwesomeness, Dec 26 '13 at 02:20
@RPi: I would honestly love to release a package for OS X but I don't have access to a Mac for testing. That being said, if you have GTK+ and PyGTK installed, it should run out-of-the-box. — Nathan Osman, Dec 26 '13 at 09:48
@NathanOsman I have access to an old iBook G4 (mine) a 2008/2009 MacBook (my Mom's) and I could see if my friend could be help me test it on the new macs (they have 2 MacBook Pro's and the new iMac.) He also uses Stack Exchange, so I think that he wouldn't mind. I'll get GTK+ and PyGTK installed and test it! — RPiAwesomeness, Dec 26 '13 at 12:39
@RPiAwesomeness: No, but this is planned for a future release. — Nathan Osman, Feb 24 '14 at 18:10
both links throw 404s. perhaps they can be indexed via wayback machine if you have copies laying around? — albert, Apr 03 '14 at 14:16
@NathanOsman Has the Ubuntu 1.6 version been released using the 2.x API? Because right now it is just giving Unknown error for everything. — RPiAwesomeness, May 21 '14 at 12:57
@RPi Version 1.5.2 was just released and uses version 2.2 of the API. It's in the PPA and I think it got backported. — Nathan Osman, May 21 '14 at 14:21
May be it's just me, but it's not working for me on Ubuntu Mate(14.10). No site is showing up in add account popup. Screenshot with error in console: https://db.tt/Z1YukKcS — Ashwini Chaudhary, Feb 03 '15 at 19:48
@AshwiniChaudhary: you must be using version 1.5.1, which uses a version of the API that no longer exists. You need to upgrade to version 1.5.2. You can find DEB packages here. — Nathan Osman, Feb 03 '15 at 20:08
@AshwiniChaudhary: that's strange. Version 1.5.2 doesn't use the URLs in your first screenshot. Where did you install it from? — Nathan Osman, Feb 03 '15 at 20:12
I downloaded it from the same link you mentioned above: https://launchpad.net/stackapplet/+download — Ashwini Chaudhary, Feb 03 '15 at 20:17
@AshwiniChaudhary: alright, that does appear to be a bug. I'll look into it. — Nathan Osman, Feb 03 '15 at 20:28
I fixed it locally by using the new url and another minor change: https://db.tt/PZjCtCWQ :-). I also noticed the same url is used in stackapplet.py as well, is that going to affect the app in any way? — Ashwini Chaudhary, Feb 03 '15 at 21:11
I don't have notifications from the applet when someone post a comment or an answer. Is that the normal behavior? — tigerjack, Apr 22 '15 at 07:54

score 18 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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Nice one! But…

Warning:

This notifier may be dangerous to epileptic users having rep like Jon Skeet

;)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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answered Nov 24 '10 at 11:43

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score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:20

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status-completed

As told in the related Ubuntu Stack Exchange site question, it would be great to port it to use app indicators.

Great app :)

edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:20

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answered Aug 04 '10 at 15:23

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I'll look into it and see what I can do. – Nathan Osman Aug 04 '10 at 18:31
This is scheduled for StackApplet 1.4 now. – Nathan Osman Aug 27 '10 at 19:21
This has now been completed. – Nathan Osman Oct 10 '10 at 01:29
This has now been released in StackApplet 1.4. – Nathan Osman Nov 23 '10 at 20:55
I think that it should go under messaging menu instead of having it's own icon. – May 20 '11 at 19:21

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '14 at 07:55

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Not working for Windows (8x64)

Firstly, download links for latest 1.6 are dead

I've installed 1.5 and it doesn't show the list of sites

Find User even doesn't work.

And without the site list, even if I enter my userID it doesn't "Add Account"

answered Jun 06 '14 at 07:55

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Having the same issue, except on Ubuntu. Maybe it's something to do with the new API? I was having issues with the new API previously, but those were fixed... – RPiAwesomeness Jul 27 '14 at 19:24
Try installing 1.5.2. That fixed it for me on Ubuntu. – RPiAwesomeness Jul 27 '14 at 19:32
Same here on Ubuntu 14.04. – Jorge B. Dec 18 '14 at 15:15
Same here on Ubuntu 14.04.1 - is this an API change again? – RPiAwesomeness Jan 12 '15 at 03:36
Same problem, version 1.5.2, Ubuntu version 15.10. I really want to use it, but can not. – QwertyChouskie Mar 06 '16 at 22:04

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 18 '14 at 15:17

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Not working for Ubuntu 14.04 32bit

I've installed 1.5.2 and it doesn't show the list of sites

Find User even doesn't work.

And without the site list, even if I enter my userID it doesn't "Add Account"

answered Dec 18 '14 at 15:17

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Same problem, version 1.5.2, Ubuntu version 15.10. I really want to use it, but can not. – QwertyChouskie Mar 06 '16 at 22:04

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 13 '10 at 09:48

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I have StackApplet installed on my Ubuntu system (using the deb package linked above). The About box says it is version 1.1 although the deb file name and package details both say it is version 1.2.

answered Aug 13 '10 at 09:48

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My bad. I forgot to update the numbers in the About box. – Nathan Osman Aug 13 '10 at 16:39
This appears to be fixed as of 1.3rc2. – moberley Sep 07 '10 at 00:10

score 4 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:21

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Is there any change to make this also work in Xfce (for use in Xubuntu)? I must admit that I have absolutely no idea about the technical differences of both desktops.

edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:21

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answered Aug 24 '10 at 21:15

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Well, this is the first Gnome applet I've written so I'm kinda new to applet development. Work will begin soon to port this to AppIndicators - that might work on Xubuntu. I don't know. – Nathan Osman Aug 24 '10 at 21:29
Please download the 1.4 beta mentioned above and see if it works. – Nathan Osman Oct 10 '10 at 02:30

score 4 · Answer 7 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:25

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Is there a PPA available for StackApplet?

And a feature request:

Ability to track "tagged questions" => "my filters". It’s cumbersome to refresh it all the time.

I haven't found an app which can do that.

edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:25

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answered May 20 '11 at 02:10

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There certainly is! You can find it here: https://launchpad.net/~stackapplet-dev/+archive/stackapplet That PPA is kept up to date with all of the latest changes to StackApplet. – Nathan Osman May 20 '11 at 02:15
updated my question with a feature request! – freethinker May 20 '11 at 02:35
@freethinker: So what you're saying is that you want the application to notify you when a question with a given tag is asked? – Nathan Osman May 20 '11 at 02:39
Rather I want the applicaiton to notify when a question belonging to a filter is asked. I have created a few filters to track questions I'm interested in. – freethinker May 20 '11 at 02:46
@freethinker: I see. Adding that feature is a possibility but it would be limited to the sites you already have added to StackApplet. – Nathan Osman May 20 '11 at 02:52
Thanks! Does the API already support filters? If it does, then it should give results across all stackexchange sites isn't it? Anyhow, it would be perfectly cool if it supports just the ones I have already added! That would be neat. – freethinker May 20 '11 at 02:56
@freethinker: The current version of the API does not provide access to filters. There is reason to believe that the next version of the API will. In the meantime, version 1.6 of StackApplet will add support for tag notifications. – Nathan Osman May 20 '11 at 03:02

score 3 · Answer 8 · edited May 28 '13 at 05:20

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At the moment a click on the widgets in the panel doesn't have a defined action. It might be handy to have a left click on a site widget open that site in the default browser.

edited May 28 '13 at 05:20

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answered Aug 30 '10 at 00:26

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Good idea. I'll try to do that soon. – Nathan Osman Aug 30 '10 at 01:35
I added that feature... you can try it out in the 1.3rc1 download listed above. – Nathan Osman Aug 30 '10 at 19:46
This has now been disabled in the 1.4 beta while some issues are worked out. – Nathan Osman Oct 10 '10 at 02:30
This is fixed now. – Nathan Osman Nov 23 '10 at 20:53

score 3 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 20 '12 at 15:31

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FYI I have fully finished the Launchpad translation into Russian. Could somebody review?

_{(I haven't lived in Russia for 8 years and I am losing the language)}

answered Jun 20 '12 at 15:31

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score 3 · Answer 10 · answered Oct 27 '12 at 18:42

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The 64 bit version tries to install itself in the Program Files (x86) folder. I am on win 7 64 bit on an Intel i5 processor. Since the filename reads amd64 I am assuming that I might as well install the 32 bit version, is this correct?

Thanks!

answered Oct 27 '12 at 18:42

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That sounds like a bug with the installer. I'll take a look into that when I get a chance - the 64-bit installer does install 64-bit executables though, regardless of where the files are installed. – Nathan Osman Oct 27 '12 at 18:43
@GeorgeEdison, thanks, if you want, let me know and I will help you test it. – Gaia Oct 27 '12 at 18:46

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 23 '14 at 21:22

I have recently become active on Arduino Beta SE and I wanted to have notifs for that on my desktop. However, StackApplet doesn't have that site in the addable (???) sites.

Is this a bug, as I know Beta sites can be added, I have Raspberry Pi working just fine; or is it just because Arduino hasn't been added to the list of sites somewhere?

score 2 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 23 '10 at 18:02

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I can't seem to get this to work... I entered ubuntu.stackexchange and my username (russjr08) in the appropriate boxes, but it stays stuck on "Please Wait..." I even restarted Gnome-Panel

answered Oct 23 '10 at 18:02

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Sorry, there are two problems with what you are doing: first, you need to enter askubuntu in the site box instead of ubuntu.stackexchange. Also, you need to enter your user ID instead of your username. If you don't know your username, click the find button beside the user ID box. – Nathan Osman Oct 24 '10 at 01:15

score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Mar 15 '12 at 17:44

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When I try to start it, I get an error message titled -

stackapplet.exe - Entry Point Not Found

saying -

The procedure entry point _except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll

What could be the reason behind this?

My platform is Windows XP Service Pack 2.

answered Mar 15 '12 at 17:44

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Unfortunately this is a bug that occurs when StackApplet is run on 64-bit versions of Windows. Rather than fixing this bug (which would have been a lot of work), StackApplet was recently rewritten from scratch to provide native support for 64-bit versions of Windows (among other things). You can find a native 64-bit installer for StackApplet 1.6 at the top of the question above. Please try that instead. – Nathan Osman Mar 15 '12 at 18:14
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@GeorgeEdison: I am running 32-bit OS, not 64-bit.... – MD Sayem Ahmed Mar 15 '12 at 19:40
Oh, sorry about that then. There is also a 32-bit installer for StackApplet 1.6. Does that work? – Nathan Osman Mar 15 '12 at 20:54
Hi @GeorgeEdison, I too am looking for the XP version. 1.5 didn't work for me. The link to the 1.6 32 bit version appears to be broken. It's reporting a "Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /stackapplet/stackapplet_1.6_i686_setup.exe on this server." Do you have another link?
– TrojanName May 16 '12 at 17:56
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@BrianFenton: Sorry about that - for some unknown reason, the permissions on that file were set to 600 instead of 644. I have fixed the permissions now, so you should be able to download the installer. – Nathan Osman May 16 '12 at 18:19
@GeorgeEdison Hi George, works like a charm! Thank you so much for a wonderful app! :-) – TrojanName May 17 '12 at 08:28

score 2 · Answer 14 · edited May 28 '13 at 05:21

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Is it possible to configure the app to ignore some events (specifically reputation changes in my case, not really interested in them as much as the other ones)?

edited May 28 '13 at 05:21

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answered Jun 01 '12 at 00:03

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As of version 1.6 (currently in Alpha), only inbox items are included in notifications (so that would include answers to your questions, comments directed to you, and anything else you would see in your global inbox). – Nathan Osman Jun 01 '12 at 00:06
That was quick :). Thanks for the info, and for the great app (I especially like how it integrates with KDE's notification system) ! – mikołak Jun 01 '12 at 00:08
Excellent - glad to hear it's working for you. – Nathan Osman Jun 01 '12 at 00:57

score 2 · Answer 15 · edited May 27 '13 at 02:56

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In version 1.6 alpha on Windows, the notification will often show

30 New Item(s)
There are 30 new item(s) in your inbox.

when there are only a few items in my inbox.

edited May 27 '13 at 02:56

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answered Mar 29 '13 at 20:36

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score 1 · Answer 16 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:27

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Is there anything similar for KDE?

edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:27

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answered Jan 05 '12 at 20:10

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This application should run under KDE. That being said, I am considering rewriting this application in Qt - in which case the answer would be a definite "yes". – Nathan Osman Jan 05 '12 at 22:10
@GeorgeEdison Great. Hope to see an alpha from you soon. – Shiplu Mokaddim Jan 06 '12 at 06:06
There is now an alpha version available. – Nathan Osman May 16 '12 at 18:14

score 1 · Answer 17 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:30

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The new 1.6 (32-bit) version won't allow me to "authorize" the app?!

I'm using Windows Vista. I've looked, but I haven't found any help elsewhere? Any ideas?

PS: StackApplet is a great tool, so I’m keen to have it fixed. The 1.5 version works, but the 1.6 doesn't. Thanks again.

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answered Jul 06 '12 at 18:33

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Could you please describe what happens when you try to authorize the application? – Nathan Osman Jul 07 '12 at 05:11
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I start the app. It loads. I right-click the icon. Move through the menus and click authorize. The authorize window pops ups. I click on authorize with google. It hangs indefinitely. Also, I tried other login methods and they all hang indefinitely too. It's the same whether or not I "use as admin". – Toby Booth Jul 07 '12 at 14:52

score 1 · Answer 18 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:32

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I installed it on Windows 7. On authorization, it threw up a bunch of dialogs about certificates missing, etc.

Once running, the only thing I could do was to look at my Inbox - there wasn't any list of sites or reputation.

I removed it for now, until more functionality is available.

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answered Aug 25 '12 at 08:51

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Tripple Moon · Answer 19 · 2023-09-06T13:09:36.487

Unable to install on Kubuntu 23.04 (PPA Bug-report)

I downloaded the latest version, which is as of this writing, v1.5.2.
I then right-clicked the deb file to opn with `QApt Package Installer" which is the default app.
In the window that pops-up i see a red line saying "Error: Cannot satisfy dependencies".

This is most likely due to python2.7 usage which has been replaced with Python 3.11.4. My system is fully updated.

PS: Is this app still worked on or is it "abandon ware"?

score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Aug 05 '10 at 14:44

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Can this applet show when there is new activity since the last visit like the envelope next to my username? In other words, if I don't see the notifications does it change colour or something to tell me I should visit the site?

answered Aug 05 '10 at 14:44

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That's a great idea... but how would it know you visited the site? – Nathan Osman Aug 05 '10 at 18:26
I don't know much about the API, so maybe it isn't supported. StackExchange has some way of determining when to change the envelope icon when there are new replies so I thought maybe that was available to applications using the API. – moberley Aug 05 '10 at 19:43
@moberly: No, I mean how would the app know that you had visited the page with your web browser? Suppose you get a message. The app turns green. You go to the site to see what the comment is... how does the app know that you did that? – Nathan Osman Aug 06 '10 at 02:20
I don't know how you would do that. That is, I'm not sure a new replies notification would work without cooperation from the StackExchange feature that provides that information. Presumably that would be via the API, but as I said I don't know much about the API.
All I know is that when I visit a StackExchange site there is a small icon next to my username that tells me if I have new replies (and how many). The thing is I have to individually visit each StackExchange site that I've joined to see it. I saw your app, and was hopeful it could also appear in my Gnome panel.
– moberley Aug 06 '10 at 13:41
Of course, if there's no way for your app to determine if there are new replies, then maybe you could just show changes for the last 24 hours? – moberley Aug 06 '10 at 13:47
@moberly: Maybe this other thing that I made is what you're looking for: http://stackcenter.quickmediasolutions.com – Nathan Osman Aug 09 '10 at 23:37
I don't think so. That is another website and it just appears to show aggregate information for all my linked accounts. I was just looking for a persistent indicator to remind me to go back to the Stack Exchange website because I'm not always at my computer. Kind of like the new email indicator. – moberley Aug 13 '10 at 09:43
@moberly: Well, I'll see what I can do. Would it work if your username kind-of flashed red until you clicked it when there was a new comment? – Nathan Osman Aug 27 '10 at 19:21
@GeorgeEdison Yes, I wasn't looking for anything fancier than that. However, I don't think it needs to flash, just changing the background colour might be better. – moberley Aug 30 '10 at 00:23
@moberly: Now that the AppIndicators port is complete, the icon changes color when there are new messages. (Of course, this only works on Ubuntu.) – Nathan Osman Oct 20 '10 at 18:53
@moberly: This now works everywhere. – Nathan Osman May 12 '11 at 16:53

score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Sep 02 '10 at 05:04

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If you're going to Appindicators I'd like to see this condensed to one icon which populates a dropdown list on click (but the libNotify messages are fine the way they are) Maybe something similar to the current messaging indicator?

Great app btw! It helps feed my addiction :)

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Ya, I really haven't got around to experimenting with AppIndicators yet... but I'll try to make it as concise as possible. Also, I need to work a bit on getting my app to comply with the API throttle guidelines, otherwise you might see errors if you have a lot of sites going. – Nathan Osman Sep 02 '10 at 05:13
Also, are you using the latest version? (1.3rc1 at the moment) – Nathan Osman Sep 02 '10 at 05:13
@GeorgeEdison: I believe so - though the About still says 1.1 – Marco Ceppi Sep 04 '10 at 07:25
Oh. Well that was fixed a few hours ago :) 1.3rc2 is out now :) – Nathan Osman Sep 04 '10 at 07:27

score 0 · Answer 22 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

Feature Request:

Would it be possible to add a preference where I can point the app to an accounts page (like this one) and it automatically picks up all accounts from there? Possibly even monitor that page for new appearing accounts?

Because it is rather tedious to enter all those accounts individually and it should be very easy to retrieve the data for the app.

BTW: thanks for writing the app!!

Update

Wait, I just noticed the "Check for associated accounts" preference in the current version, I guess that cancels out my request. Still:

Unfortunately the app does not check for duplicates (a duplicate being a two entries with equal site and user id)
it would be even nicer if the app could continually monitor the accounts and add new accounts automatically once they appear.

Hmmm... I like your idea. I'll see what I can do to implement it. — Nathan Osman, Oct 26 '10 at 01:31

score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Feb 25 '11 at 15:31

I'm installing Ubuntu 11.04; I saw StackApplet in the Accessories menu. It claims that as of the newly installed version 1.4, StackApplet is no longer a Gnome 2 applet, but instead it'll live in the tray area... except I'm not even sure Ubuntu 11.04's Unity will have a tray area to begin with. Kinda baffled by the coincidence.

At any rate, can you please consider improving the way the tray icon behaves? Currently it does nothing on right click and opens a menu in place on left click; if the tray bar is placed at the bottom of the screen, this puts the 'Quit' menu item squarely below where I clicked. Basically, clicking on the StackApplet icons closes it; I'd have to drag up to use the program itself.

Well, actually - StackApplet uses the AppIndicator framework, so it'll work fine with future Ubuntu releases. As for the way the tray icon behaves, that too is unfortunately beyond my control since the menu is created and managed by the AppIndicator framework. — Nathan Osman, Feb 25 '11 at 17:08

score 0 · Answer 24 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:23

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Is there support for HTTP proxies?

edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:23

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Not at this point. Which platform are you using? – Nathan Osman Apr 27 '11 at 19:07
I'm stuck on Windows at work :'( – raphink Apr 28 '11 at 08:09
@George: Is there maybe a way I can modify some of the code to support proxies (at least hardcoded)? – raphink Apr 28 '11 at 09:35
Well, all of the HTTP code is in the file stack_api.py. This file is located in /usr/share/stackapplet/. – Nathan Osman Apr 28 '11 at 19:11
Hey @raphink, have you tried using Microsoft Firewall Client? I use it and all other apps on my PC don't require proxy setup, they just assume there's a direct connection to the Internet. – rdrgrtz Jul 19 '11 at 13:30

score 0 · Answer 25 · answered May 08 '11 at 10:35

I get the following warnings while installing your package in Ubuntu 11.04:

Lintian check results for /home/badp/Downloads/stackapplet_1.4.0_all.deb:
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/applications/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/applications/stackapplet.desktop 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en_CA/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/stackapplet.mo 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en_GB/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/stackapplet.mo 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/es/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/stackapplet.mo 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/fr/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/stackapplet.mo 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/tr/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/stackapplet.mo 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/meta.stackoverflow.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/serverfault.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/stackapplet.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/stackapplet_grey.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/stackapplet_light.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/stackapps.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/stackoverflow.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/superuser.png 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/ 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/appindicator_replacement.py 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/config_store.py 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/import_13.py 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/prefs_dialog.py 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/select_user.py 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/stack_api.py 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.glade 1000/1000
E: StackApplet: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py 1000/1000

That's due to Natty's new 'bad quality package' warnings. If you want to install the package anyway, rest assured that installing StackApplet is completely safe. If not, StackApplet 1.5 will have these warnings fixed. — Nathan Osman, May 08 '11 at 16:01

score 0 · Answer 26 · edited Oct 21 '21 at 15:26

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This neither works in Windows XP nor in Debian 6 for me. What could be wrong? Nothing happens when I try to launch...

peter@debian-peter:~$ python /usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py", line 116, in <module>
        import preferences     # a web server that allows preferences to be changed
      File "/usr/share/stackapplet/preferences.py", line 289, in <module>
        httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 8140), preference_server)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 402, in __init__
        self.server_bind()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 108, in server_bind
        SocketServer.TCPServer.server_bind(self)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 413, in server_bind
        self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
      File "<string>", line 1, in bind
    socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use
    peter@debian-peter:~$ python /usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py", line 116, in <module>
        import preferences     # a web server that allows preferences to be changed
      File "/usr/share/stackapplet/preferences.py", line 364, in <module>
        httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost', 8140), preference_server)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 402, in __init__
        self.server_bind()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 108, in server_bind
        SocketServer.TCPServer.server_bind(self)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py", line 413, in server_bind
        self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
      File "<string>", line 1, in bind
    socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use

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I'm not sure why it wouldn't work in Windows XP, but it's easier to debug in Debian. Try starting StackApplet by running 'python /usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py'. Please post any output you receive. – Nathan Osman May 22 '11 at 05:58
As requested see OP. – ptrcao May 22 '11 at 06:22
@ptr: It seems like the port that StackApplet uses is already in use (StackApplet uses port 8140 for managing preferences). Can you check if StackApplet is already running? When it is working properly, you should see an icon in your notification area (the panel at the top of your desktop). – Nathan Osman May 22 '11 at 06:27
I can't see anything in the notification area, especially not the stackapp icon. Other active programs in the notification area include Thunderbird and Compiz Fusion. Do you perceive any conflict here? – ptrcao May 22 '11 at 07:16
In case this tells you anything, peter@debian-peter:~$ lsof -i :8140 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME python 6987 peter 7u IPv4 52025 0t0 TCP localhost:8140 (LISTEN) – ptrcao May 22 '11 at 08:24
@ptr: It must be running somewhere. Since it sounds like the web interface is running, you can simply open your browser and visit 'http://localhost:8140'. That will bring up the preferences page which will allow you to configure the application. – Nathan Osman May 22 '11 at 19:29
I tried visiting http://localhost:8140/ and whilst I could see a heading "StackApplet Preferences", all that appears on the page are empty bullet points, an empty dropdown menu, radio buttons and check boxes with no accompanying text. Can you suggest anything else? I'm happy to provide any info you think might be helpful and diagnosing the problem. – ptrcao May 23 '11 at 09:36
@ptr: If everything is empty, that means that the translation subsystem is not functioning properly. Is there any way you could make sure that there are no running instances of StackApplet and then try running it from the terminal again? It sounds like it is still running somehow. If you can get it running in a terminal, then we'll hopefully see some error messages that will make it easier to pinpoint what exactly the problem is. – Nathan Osman May 23 '11 at 17:00
What commands shall I use to launch it in terminal? – ptrcao May 23 '11 at 22:36
@ptr: 'python /usr/share/stackapplet/stackapplet.py' – Nathan Osman May 24 '11 at 05:59
Ok, so it's giving the same error: address already in use. How do I vacate the address? What command? – ptrcao May 24 '11 at 11:01
@ptr: It should be as simple as 'kill xxx' where xxx is the ID of the process. To find the ID of the StackApplet process, you will need to use Debian's system monitor tool (I'm not sure if that's what it's called, but basically it's the tool that lists all of the currently running programs - StackApplet will probably show up somewhere under Python). Once you find the process ID and 'kill' StackApplet, then you should have no problem running StackApplet from the terminal. – Nathan Osman May 24 '11 at 17:12
In System Monitor I found the process "python usr/bin/system-config-printer-applet" - this was the only python process running. When I stopped this process and launched StackApplet, it worked. It appeared some vital printing applet was occupying the port/address. Can you make StackApplet use a different, vacant port? – ptrcao May 24 '11 at 19:45
@ptr: I haven't released v1.5 yet, so yes - I can and will change the port number. Thanks for helping me with this - I appreciate it. – Nathan Osman May 24 '11 at 19:50
No problem, thanks for programming StackApplet. :) Do you think the problem is the same with Windows XP? I had a similar issue with launching StackApplet in Windows... – ptrcao May 24 '11 at 20:00
@ptr: It could be. I'll let you know when I make the next release with the modified port so that you can try it. – Nathan Osman May 24 '11 at 20:05
Sounds good. Though, if you want me to try anything in the meantime, just let me know. I'll try vacating the port and seeing if it makes a difference... – ptrcao May 25 '11 at 06:54
In WinXP there is no process taking up port 8140. Can I launch StackApplet from within terminal to see errors? If so, what command do I use? Basically launching it via the start menu, nothing appears to happen... – ptrcao May 25 '11 at 09:12

ptrcao · Answer 27 · 2011-05-28T07:32:03.753

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Thought I'd mention. I tried setting up StackApps in Windows 7, but at the preference screen for accounts associated with StackApps, it stalls on "loading..." and I'm not able to set up my accounts. Any ideas?

edited May 28 '11 at 07:32

answered May 25 '11 at 06:57

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Are you using Google Chrome? If so, you can right-click on the page and click "Inspect Element". There will be a console tab somewhere that may contain error information. – Nathan Osman May 25 '11 at 06:59
No, Firefox 3.6.12. – ptrcao May 25 '11 at 08:33
@ptr: In that case, you would go to Tools->Error Console. – Nathan Osman May 25 '11 at 16:15
Error: Translator.translation_table is null Source File: http://localhost:8140/translations.js Line: 56 – ptrcao May 25 '11 at 16:53
@ptr: Are you using the 1.5beta2 Windows installer? – Nathan Osman May 25 '11 at 18:05
stackapplet_1.5_i686_setup.exe was what I used...I guess this is not it? – ptrcao May 26 '11 at 10:52
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@ptr: Well (and this is my fault) I actually didn't change the filenames for the different beta releases, so it's hard to tell which one you have by the filename. However, if you visit this page, you can make sure you have beta2. (Oh, and the version in the PPA now uses port 8150). – Nathan Osman May 28 '11 at 06:03
I don't know how to explain this but after uninstalling and reinstalling yet again, it worked! Well this saves you the headache. Let me suggest an unrelated improvement though. On relaunching a second instance of StackApplet, a second instance will display on the notification tray. Not sure if this behaviour is desirable as redundant instances can occur. – ptrcao May 28 '11 at 07:34
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@ptr: Good point. I'll make sure that gets fixed. Thanks for letting me know that it works! – Nathan Osman May 28 '11 at 14:18
No problems, happy to help. We've succeeded in getting it to work for both Debian 6.0 and Windows 7 now, at least for me. The last remaining OS environment to troubleshoot was going to be WinXP, however, my ailing HHD finally gave in yesterday so I won't have the WinXP environment to test it in. Haven't tried it in Ubuntu yet, but I'll be sure to let you know if I have any issues. I'm a multi-booting power user, so I appreciate the cross-platform support. :) – ptrcao May 28 '11 at 14:37
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@ptr: Great! Actually, I develop the application in Ubuntu, so it is extremely well supported there and has some extra features. – Nathan Osman May 29 '11 at 06:36
Oh, I use Debian as my primary OS, as well as Windows. :P I hope soon you will extend all those nice features to the other OSs too. :) – ptrcao May 29 '11 at 06:56
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@ptr: Well, the only thing missing from Debian / Windows is integration with the Ubuntu Messaging Menu. All of the other features are present in other operating systems. – Nathan Osman May 29 '11 at 20:17
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@ptr: I may have a fix for the XP problem now. Please try downloading this installer and see if that fixes the problem. – Nathan Osman Jun 13 '11 at 22:10
Slight problem...I've converted to Win7 now :| But I'm sure some XP user somewhere will be thanking you. Perhaps you could find/get someone with XP to test it for us :P I'd still be curious to know if the problem's been solved :) – ptrcao Jun 14 '11 at 11:43

rdrgrtz · Answer 28 · 2011-06-03T16:05:06.393

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This is what I get with the debug version under Windows XP SP3:

C:\Program Files\StackApplet>stackapplet.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 88, in <module>
  File "C:\PyInstaller\iu.py", line 436, in importHook
  File "C:\PyInstaller\iu.py", line 521, in doimport
  File "Z:\tmp\a\other\windows\build\pyi.win32\stackapplet\outPYZ1.pyz/gtk", line 40, in <module>
  File "C:\PyInstaller\iu.py", line 477, in importHook
  File "C:\PyInstaller\iu.py", line 495, in doimport
  File "C:\PyInstaller\iu.py", line 297, in getmod
  File "C:\PyInstaller\archive.py", line 468, in getmod
  File "C:\PyInstaller\iu.py", line 109, in getmod
ImportError: DLL load failed: Invalid access to memory location.

edited Jun 03 '11 at 16:05

answered Jun 01 '11 at 15:20

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@GeorgeEdison ...pssst, over here! – rdrgrtz Jun 03 '11 at 18:52
As mentioned above, please try this file and see if it fixes the problem. – Nathan Osman Jun 13 '11 at 22:09
Hi @george, I tried 1.5beta2 today and still no go. I'm trying your fix now. – rdrgrtz Jul 19 '11 at 13:26
Installed the fix, and nothing. I'm having the same problem as ptrcao below, @george – rdrgrtz Jul 19 '11 at 13:28
I just made another build. Does this file work? – Nathan Osman Jul 26 '11 at 20:03
@George yeah, that works! Only thing is that I get "Network error." on everything since I'm behind a proxy. – rdrgrtz Jul 27 '11 at 16:14

score 0 · Answer 29 · answered Jul 16 '11 at 21:00

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So I used apt-get install stackapplet, and it installed something. (Version 1.4.0-1, from the apt-cache show output.)

Then nothing happens. Should the applet automatically appear somewhere, or do I have to start it manually? If so, how?

(I have Ubuntu 11.04, with an old GNOME desktop, as my computer is too old to support Unity.)

answered Jul 16 '11 at 21:00

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You can start it manually by going to Applications->Accessories->StackApplet. After that, you can go to preferences and set it to start every time you log in. – Nathan Osman Jul 26 '11 at 20:01

score 0 · Answer 30 · answered Jul 17 '11 at 09:17

Thank you George. It works for me (ubuntu 11) after installing via command prompt. Maybe it could be made also to start from the command prompt with the command stackapplet?

$ sudo apt-get install stackapplet Läser paketlistor... Färdig Bygger beroendeträd Läser tillståndsinformation... Färdig Följande ytterligare paket kommer att installeras: python-gnomeapplet Följande NYA paket kommer att installeras: python-gnomeapplet Följande paket kommer att uppgraderas: stackapplet 1 att uppgradera, 1 att nyinstallera, 0 att ta bort och 224 att inte uppgradera. Behöver hämta 52,6 kB arkiv. Efter denna åtgärd kommer 79,0 MB att frigöras på disken. Vill du fortsätta [J/n]? J Läs:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main python-gnomeapplet amd64 2.32.0-0ubuntu2 [19,8 kB] Läs:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe stackapplet all 1.4.0-1 [32,9 kB] Hämtade 52,6 kB på 0s (107 kB/s) Väljer tidigare ej valt paket python-gnomeapplet. (Läser databasen ... 147381 filer och kataloger installerade.) Packar upp python-gnomeapplet (från .../python-gnomeapplet_2.32.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ... Förbereder att ersätta stackapplet 1.4.0 (med .../stackapplet_1.4.0-1_all.deb) ... Packar upp ersättande stackapplet ... Hanterar utlösare för bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Hanterar utlösare för desktop-file-utils ... Hanterar utlösare för python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.sv_SE.utf8.cache... Hanterar utlösare för python-support ... Ställer in python-gnomeapplet (2.32.0-0ubuntu2) ... Ställer in stackapplet (1.4.0-1) ... Hanterar utlösare för python-support ... ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/Lexar/$ stackapplet stackapplet: command not found

It's not working for me. When I try and connect to http://localhost:8150/ the drop down menu for the site is empty and so is the search for user section. When starting the applet from the command line it says: dbind-WARNING **: 08:33:42.461: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. and it also says that when I launch preferences. — Mark Deven, Aug 17 '18 at 12:35

score 0 · Answer 31 · answered Jul 28 '11 at 11:43

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Is it possible to get notifications about badges too?

Thank you for a great app!

answered Jul 28 '11 at 11:43

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You're welcome! Badge notification is planned for a future release. – Nathan Osman Jul 28 '11 at 21:16
@NathanOsman did I miss it or is there still no os x version :( – Ruskes Apr 15 '13 at 20:57
There's no OS X release but if you have Python and PyGTK installed, there's no reason you couldn't just run it directly from the source code. – Nathan Osman Apr 15 '13 at 21:27

score 0 · Answer 32 · answered Jan 09 '12 at 09:39

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Since you are already using a GUI toolkit (pygtk? haven't looked at the source), it doesn't make much sense to have your preferences as local website; if anything, it's a security risk.

Any chance that the Preferences feature will be rewritten with a proper GUI?

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The small HTTP server that manages the preferences is quite secure - it uses a cryptographic nonce to ensure that only the current user can make changes to it. But yes, I am planning to rewrite the application in Qt and this will include a brand new dialog box for preferences. – Nathan Osman Jan 10 '12 at 00:44

score 0 · Answer 33 · answered Dec 09 '12 at 18:37

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Does this work behind a proxy server?

I am trying to add my AskUbuntu Account, but the Preferences dialog just freezes after some time.

StackApplet Version is 1.4.0-2

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Hashken

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I would strongly suggest upgrading to 1.5.1 which is the latest stable release. A lot of bugs were fixed in that release. – Nathan Osman Dec 10 '12 at 03:34

score 0 · Answer 34 · edited Jun 18 '20 at 08:33

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Feature Request

Please add support for proxies... It would be helpful to people behind proxies. Like myself.

edited Jun 18 '20 at 08:33

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score 0 · Answer 35 · answered May 28 '13 at 05:23

When you click on the icon, it brings up the window. If you click on the icon while the window is open, it pops up again, instead of closing. Just a small feature request.

Also, it would be nice if when you clicked on one of the notifications in the window, if it would get rid of the notification on the SE website. And vice versa

score 0 · Answer 36 · edited Jun 18 '20 at 08:33

Not sure if this is a bug on my end, but recently the application has been giving me network errors for Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu, and Raspberry Pi SE. I attempted reinstalling both via DEB and via the PPA, but it still was giving me errors.

So, I tried removing all of them, and then tried to add them back, but I get this:

and there are no options under Site. Is this a bug somehow, or a result of an API change or the update?

EDIT: It's now just giving me Unknown error:

unknown error

Any idea what could be causing this?

EDIT: Found the cause. There is an issue with the 1.5.1 version, 1.5.2 is working almost perfectly.

score 0 · Answer 37 · answered Jul 27 '14 at 19:35

I get this error when I select the Preferences menu item on Ubuntu 14.04:

Invalid authorization credentials supplied. Please click on the preferences menu item in the application to view this page.

I reinstalled 1.5.2 and I have been getting this. All of the provided accounts from the previous installation are showing the correct rep, but I can't add new accounts.

score 0 · Answer 38 · answered Apr 24 '15 at 08:08

I don't know what is the application normal behavior, but I'm only able to see my reputation on a lot of SE sites, while I don't receive any notification at all (such as when someone comments/replies to a question of mine). Is this normal? I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 and I'm using the 1.5.2 version

Sadi · Answer 39 · 2015-05-11T17:48:17.453

Stuck at "add a new account" with v.1.5.2, Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit

After a long break (due to unsolved problems) I tried using this applet again today following the up-to-date installation procedures (basically using the latest PPA and remembering to check that python-appindicator is installed) but unfortunately this time I couldn't even start logging into my account no matter what I did -- entering my user name or my email address or using "Find User", etc.

I started the applet from terminal to see any error messages, but nothing was there to see either.

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Stuck at "add a new account" with v.1.5.2, Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit

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