March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 6, GNOME Desktop Hacks
#46 Grow Your GNOME with gDesklets Steroids
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Grow Your GNOME with gDesklets Steroids Hack #46
Spiff up your GNOME desktop with various information panels and interactive
gadgets.
gDesklets are GNOME’s answer to KDE’s karamba and superkaramba. You
can set up and use gDesklets that place system information, clocks, and
other information on your desktop. Some gDesklets provide more interac-
tive functions. Even though they are associated primarily with GNOME,
gDesklets are not GNOME-only programs. The gDesklets system runs rea-
sonably well with other window managers, even KDE.
Like the KDE gadget programs, gDesklets depend heavily on Python and
Python interfaces to GNOME. Here are the minimum requirements for
gDesklets to work (some sensors might have extra requirements):
• Python 2.3 or higher
• pygtk 2.0.0 or higher
• libgtop2
• librsvg
• GConf
• gnome-python 2.0.0 or higher
• GConf support for gnome-python (plus the extra package gnome-
python2-gconf on Red Hat Linux)
The web site for gDesklets is at http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/, but you
won’t find RPMs there. Your best bet is to search http://rpm.pbone.net/
index.php3 for RPM packages for Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake, and others, and
you’ll also find some RPM packages at http://www.rpmfind.net. Debian and
Gentoo provide packages you can download through their Internet install-
ers, apt-get and emerge, respectively. ...
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