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Yes, I have the widget running. And it is set to autoupdate every two hours.

I also have fcron installed and the following in the config file:

00 07 * * 1-7 /usr/bin/FeedingIt update

but when I wake up at 07.30 there has been no update. (There are other lines in the config that execute properly.)

However when I try running '/usr/bin/FeedingIt update' from the x-term I get the following output:

method return sender=:1.139 -> dest=:1.137 reply_serial=2 string "Done"

and the feeds appear to have updated.

Any ideas?

Does fcron try to run the command as root? You need to make sure it uses the default "user" to run it.
As for why the widget does not work, check the feeding_widget.log in your home directory for errors.

I'm not sure how to ensure the FeedingIt update runsa as user if fcron starts it.

As for the log, I checked it and here are the contents. I don't see anything here relevant to update issues.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/hildon-desktop/feedingit_widget.py", line 140, in __init__
pixbuf = icon_theme.load_icon("feedingit", 20, gtk.ICON_LOOKUP_USE_BUILTIN )
GError: Icon 'feedingit' not present in theme

According to http://wiki.maemo.org/Fcron , you need to use "run-standalone.sh" in front of the script to set up the correct environment for dbus calls.

But not sure why the widget doesn't work for you.

Aha! I have solved one of the problems. I wasn't aware that there are two separate auto update schedules that are set independently, one in the main program, and one in the widget. I had only set the one in the main program. I wonder if linking these somehow, even with a message to the user, might be helpful? It wasn't obvious to me, at any rate.

I will see if using the extra call in the script will solve the other problem, as well.

Just uploaded 0.9.1-1 to Extras-Devel. This version adds:
- Categories (note, to add feeds into a category, select it in the Manage Feeds area, and click on the "i" icon)
- Woodchuck support (A Network Transmission Manager, see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=79707 for more info)
- Quite a few bug fixes and background improvements

Thanks to Neal who did a big part of this update.

Thanks....

The update failed here, due to unmet dependencies:

feedingit: Depends: qt4-declarative-qmlviewer but is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Hey Slocan any thoughts about building feedingit for the N9? This is a wonderful RSS reader on the N900.

Yeah, that is a gratuitous dependency. (I've built it locally without that dependency.)

Neal

If you look at the git repository, you'll see that he is working on it