gdesklets

[ossi]

Who of you uses gdesklets regularly and what or? Are they more than just a tool for Gnome users to feel a bit more OS X like??

[graabein]

Currently I'm just using some kind of weather forecast. Can't remember the name. I would like a gdesklet for displaying hd free space but those I've seen don't look that good...

[Efwis]

the desklets I use are the guages. I have my CPU usage shown, my HDD space shown, my Ram shown, and an email notifier running.

[linuxden]

hey,

Just like efwis i use the gauges...(there great for disk usage...)

[ogregore]

I am using two - Side Candy Weather and FTB by Kevin Kane.

The FTB is a series of apps that lock together.

Cheers
Ogre

[AgonxOC]

Hello guys... I have installed GDesklets and I dont have anything under author or anything to install for that matter.... Can someone tell me exactly how to get them working?

Alex

[sabredog]

I am using two - Side Candy Weather and FTB by Kevin Kane.

The FTB is a series of apps that lock together.

Cheers
Ogre

I just discovered the FTB docklets as well. Very nice!

cheers

[linuxden]

at the risk of being a bit late, sorry had a nice weekend away + forums where down... :o(

Just click and drag downloaded desklets into the gdesklets window... they will install automaticaly..!!

Get them at gdesklets.org....

[majikstreet]

used to use gdesklets.. I stopped because I only had 256mb memory... I have been using conky for a while though...

[tmilovan]

If you are in OSX look&feel you'll like to try StarterBar applet, it is basically a osxlike animated launcher bar...

TOni

[Artificial Intelligence]

Uses LTPager, LTnotify, and Psi-tasklist.

http://thilockdominus.freehomepage.com/images/newfoldeHowto/Howto-Gdesklets.jpg

[Efwis]

The only one I use is OSX Corner XMMS (http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/categories.php?func=gd_show_app&gd_app_id=293) to play music. I find the others - in MY opinion - a bit pointless. I'm not paranoid about CPU utilisation, hard drive space, temperature, etc, but what I would absolutely love is a desklet that would monitor my servers at work and alert me when one goes down.
the only reason I run the hdd space one is because my linux install is on a 5 gig hdd. otherwise I wouldn't worry about that either.
otherwise I like to see the usage of my ram, easier to detect memory leakage, and I like to see how many cpu cycles some programs use. better to guage whether I want to keep that program.

[Leigh]

The only one I use is OSX Corner XMMS (http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/categories.php?func=gd_show_app&gd_app_id=293) to play music. I find the others - in MY opinion - a bit pointless. I'm not paranoid about CPU utilisation, hard drive space, temperature, etc, but what I would absolutely love is a desklet that would monitor my servers at work and alert me when one goes down.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Well, if you have enough power to burn off and it really doesn't make a diffrent in speed gdesklets are cool ;) . But better to avoid on slower computers.

[gooner]

What is the recommended requirements for gdesklets? I have a sony laptop with a 2.98Ghz Celeron processor, 512mb ram, 32mb of which dedicated to the gpu (ATI 340m). And whenever i run a couple of widgets the cpu monitor and rss reader for example it slows down my computer significantly.

[linuxden]

What is the recommended requirements for gdesklets? I have a sony laptop with a 2.98Ghz Celeron processor, 512mb ram, 32mb of which dedicated to the gpu (ATI 340m). And whenever i run a couple of widgets the cpu monitor and rss reader for example it slows down my computer to the point significantly.

Mmmmmm Weird i run quite a few desklets and have no noticable difference in computer speeds...

With your speeds i wouldnt expect any either... My desklets use up about 15MB RAM that is when i dont use them at start up i have 15MB of RAM extra... But no nboticable CPU speed...

What desklets do you use?

[Efwis]

Mmmmmm Weird i run quite a few desklets and have no noticable difference in computer speeds...

With your speeds i wouldnt expect any either... My desklets use up about 15MB RAM that is when i dont use them at start up i have 15MB of RAM extra... But no nboticable CPU speed...

What desklets do you use?
unless you have the exact same computer, I would think it's kind of hard to compare your setup to gooners.

What is the recommended requirements for gdesklets? I have a sony laptop with a 2.98Ghz Celeron processor, 512mb ram, 32mb of which dedicated to the gpu (ATI 340m). And whenever i run a couple of widgets the cpu monitor and rss reader for example it slows down my computer to the point significantly.
there is nothing that states any recommended requirements for gdesklets at http://www.gdesklets.org or http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/index.php. It might have something to do with the specific widgets you're using. Have you tried any other type of widgets to see if you get the same results?
to make it easy to find out, in Gnome-panel you have a system monitor applet available that can show cpu usage, memory usage, swap usage etc.. you can use that to see which widgets spike your cpu.
I know I have had an issue where python spiked my cpu when I used widgets on my old mobo.

[gooner]

Right, so I've been fiddling around with various different widgets and it appears that the culprit was the CPU monitor (SidecandyCPU) which is a shame seeing as it was my favorite one.

Thanks for the replys guys.

[Iandefor]

Starterbar. It works very well for what I need- a space to keep launchers.
Aside from that, nothing, really.

[skirkpatrick]

I use FTP and iWeather. The only thing that ticks me off is that the percentage bars on all the desklets show 100% all the time since Breezy.

[nursegirl]

Uses LTPager, LTnotify, and Psi-tasklist.


Hey AI,
I've been searching for Psi-tasklist. Any ideas where to find it? Can you send it to me?

[TherapyQuestionMark]

I use FTP and iWeather. The only thing that ticks me off is that the percentage bars on all the desklets show 100% all the time since Breezy.

Are those bars suppose to show how much harddrive space you have left? or used up?

[[pl]ice]

any ideas why my gdesklets hangs up? it just goes after a while to ~100% cpu, and that's it, got to kill it

[skirkpatrick]

They're supposed to show how much is used up.

I'm not sure why gdesklets is hanging. Does it happen when you first start it, when you are adding desklets to the desktop, or when it's initializing the desklets already placed?

[[pl]ice]

i start the program, then add applets to it, any one, then once that applet starts to work, the main program goes to ~100 cpu, then it just stays there; i have tried to re install pythong but then it got some much dependencies that its not possible! wrrr, and i really like gdesklets :)

[toorima]

ice']any ideas why my gdesklets hangs up? it just goes after a while to ~100% cpu, and that's it, got to kill it

Are you using iWeather? When I use iWeather all my gdesklets hang after a while, cpu 100%, stopped using it due to that, using goodweather instead but if anyone have a solution for iWeather I'd be happy.

[snowjunkie]

Hello guys... I have installed GDesklets and I dont have anything under author or anything to install for that matter.... Can someone tell me exactly how to get them working?

Alex

Did you install gdesklets-data ?

sudo apt-get install gdesklets-data

[TherapyQuestionMark]

They're supposed to show how much is used up.


I had the same problem of the gauge being 100% as well.

I snooped around in the source code and found by changing the anchor from "sw" to "se" the gauge will decrease from the right to show how much space you have left.

<gauge id="data" fill="50" anchor="se" y="100%">

[skirkpatrick]

I suppose that's a back-*** way to do it but better than fullscale. I'm still wondering why it hasn't been fixed and backported.

[phux]

I got a problem concerning gdesklets:
I right-clicked on the taskbar-icon and chose "dont display taskbar-icon" or something like that.
Now i cannot reach that settings-dialog any more.
Is there a way to restore the icon?

thx

edit:
fixed it with
gdesklets configure

[munroe]

I love my little desklets. They use up a lot of my CPU time, but that's okay. I'm using the FTB series of 'lets. I find the clock looks better than the regular one, but that's just me.

[Vlammetje]

I currently only have a weather forecast.
I did have gauges before, but not all worked. I also had the OS X bar but found the regular gnome panel with shortcuts works much better for me.

What I would really like to have is display the ink levels of my HP photosmart printer, but for some reason I never got the inklevels gdesklet working.... any tips? :confused:

[Sirin]

Hmm. I think SuperKaramba is better when it comes to widgets. gDesklets comes nowhere close to Dashboard like SuperKaramba or Konfabulator. ;)

[Leigh]

I'm a Gnome user, would SuperKaramba or Konfabulator work with Gnome? Looking at the Knfabulator site, it appears that they only work with Windows or Apple. Is this correct?

[Vlammetje]

superkaramba requires KDE.... I dunno anything about konfabulator though..... but ehm..... wasn't this Hmm. I think SuperKaramba is better when it comes to widgets. gDesklets comes nowhere close to Dashboard like SuperKaramba or Konfabulator. a threadjack? A shameless plug at the very least..... but no use for anybody (sucvh as me) who prefers gnome over KDE :rolleyes:

[Garyu]

gdesklets is cool and all in some ways but you know... it has more bugs than any MS Windows version ever made. I have never tried anything that crashes that often. Fortunately, linux is a stable OS, so it doesn't really matter that gdesklets crash continously, it is just annoying. And the only things I use are the rhythmbox right-corner thing and the weather thing. On a powerful AMD64 computer.

It's nice to look at though, when it is working. :cool:

[Vlammetje]

my gdesklet has never crashed sofar :confused:

[Klaidas]

If you are in OSX look&feel you'll like to try StarterBar applet, it is basically a osxlike animated launcher bar...

TOni

YAY! That's what I was looking for like a week. Gonna try now ;)

[LordBug]

I've had gDesklets crash, but it was entirely my fault. I was tinkering with the XML on a widget source, and botched it. gDesklets was not happy about it.

Anyway, applet wise, I'm running a modified UPS monitor and Sidecandy HD monitor.

[nalgene]

Can some one help me out. For some reason Wheater+ desklet dosnet work, it says it installs but is never in the list. i used it before but not now..

[ComplexNumber]

my gdesklet has never crashed sofar :confused: nor me. i've had superkaramba crash (or simply just refuse to display even though its there), though.


Can some one help me out. For some reason Wheater+ desklet dosnet work, it says it installs but is never in the list. i used it before but not now..
do you have any more details that can enable others to pinpoint the problem?

[lleberg]

I installed it from the repos..
And i have one question!
What keycommand is there to put them on top for a while?
Read a tip about it at startup but shift F12 doesnt work..

Edit: it's up and running..
http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2183&original=1

Couldnt get any sensor desklets going though..

[zodwallop]

gdesklets is cool and all in some ways but you know... it has more bugs than any MS Windows version ever made. I have never tried anything that crashes that often. Fortunately, linux is a stable OS, so it doesn't really matter that gdesklets crash continously, it is just annoying. And the only things I use are the rhythmbox right-corner thing and the weather thing. On a powerful AMD64 computer.

It's nice to look at though, when it is working. :cool:


I have a handful of gdesklets installed as well (I'm running Breezy Badger) and it crashes on a regular basis. I love it when it works, though!

[fauzie]

Shift - F12 doesn't do anything here as well ... And I can't find such a thing as a configuration dialog to change the keyboard shortcut.