John Dangler schreef:
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From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock
John Dangler schreef:
Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I can't find
a way to have it start in gnome. (it's an applet)
Yes, I've used it several times, under various versions of gnome-panel.
The way to start it (or most any panel applet), is to right click on an
empty area of the panel (or the handle), and choose 'Add to panel'.
Scroll down, and you should see 'Moon Clock'. If not, restart
gnome-panel (sometimes new applications or applets don't immediately
appear in the panel menus).
Choose it, hit 'Add' and it will be added to your panel. Don't forget to
right-click the applet and correct the longitude and latitude for your
location, or the information shown will be incorrect (except for the
phase, of course).
Holly~
Way Cool!
Are there more of these outside of the ones that are listed in gnome?
Yes, a couple that I know of:
gnubiff
mail-notification
These replicate the same function; they're mail-checkers. I prefer
gnubiff 1) because its cuter, and 2) it seems to work better than
mail-notification, which has the disturbing behaviour of disappearing
from the panel when there's no new mail, and reappearing when there is,
which the panel doesn't seem to like that much (nor do I).
The supposed benefit of mail-notification is that it says it can check
GMail, but so can gnubiff (if you've set up send a copy of any new
gmail to my real address according to the gmail instructions, and set
up an account for it in Thunderbird, you can also set gnubiff to check
that (secure) account as well). Nice for if I don't have Firefox open
for whatever reason (where I use the GMail Notifier extension).
There's also the
quick-lounge-applet
which gives you a little application launcher, similar to Windows'
QuickLaunch toolbar (used it once, it works fine but seemed pointless to
me);
oooqstart-gnome
an OpenOffice quickstarter for GNOME (there's one for KDE as well). This
basically preloads OO.o so that it opens faster
battstat
a battery status monitor (never used, since I don't have a laptop)
gxmms
A panel applet to control xmms
gnome-swallow
allows any app to be 'swallowed' into the panel (may use a lot of CPU;
certainly wmswallow, which I had to stop using, does)
drwright
an applet that schedules breaks to keep you from hurting yourself
sitting at the computer too long;
... and that's just a partial list; go to packages.gentoo.org and type
applet
into the search field.
You'll have to skip through all of the 'k' stuff, and of course some
applets are meant for other WMs (there's a lot of ROX applets, for
example), but you should be able to find all the cool stuf relatively
easily.
HTH,
Holly
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