gDesklets substitute

ett_gramse_nap · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:09 am Post subject: gDesklets substitute

Since I'm not a fan of Gnome (nor KDE) I don't have all those ugly bastard (see below) installed I'm looking for a gDesklet-clone or something. Is there any?

polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

I would have a look at gkrellm and some plugins:
http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html

ett_gramse_nap · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

Yepp, gkrellm certainly doesn't need a lot of dependencies... but how about fancy themes? Where can I get them? The default are, in my opinion, ugly as few...
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Cossins · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:12 pm Post subject:

SuperKaramba. It is dependant on KDE, but it only needs kdelibs which you will probably want to install anyway.

And actually, gDesklets is a clone of SuperKaramba...

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polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/

ett_gramse_nap · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

Rem · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

Cossins · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

Rem · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

OK, that should be cool then, they are much faster than gdesklets, so I'll maybe try it too.

Rem

Rem · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:04 am Post subject:

Ok, it does indeed work, but if you want transparency, you need to run kdesktop, which will ruin my menus in kahakai (won't be able to access it by rightclicking), so I'll leave it alone for now.

Rem

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

did you try

nderjm · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Jamaica

Does that install it properly? This is the answer I've been looking for. I didnt want to have to go download and compile everything manually. I too will be using fluxbox. Just got Gentoo installed from Stage1

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vonhelmet · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

Gdesklets is fairly heavily tied to Gnome and GTK and Superkaramba is fairly heavily tied to KDE and QT.

If you don't want either then I would recommend gkrellm2, as people already have done. You can get some nice themes for it. Emerge gkrellm (use ~x86 for gkrellm2) and gkrellm-themes and then emerge the plugins you want.
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floam · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject: Re: gDesklets substitute

khiloa · Guru Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 333 Location: Florence, SC

What is that little system monitor I've been seeing in a lot of screenshots? its just simple text with a transparent bg.

shm · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:54 pm Post subject:

rcxAsh · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:15 am Post subject:

shm · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:17 am Post subject:

TheWoopWoop · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 30

Torsmo does indeed look great...

rcxAsh · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

The only thing about torsmo.. The last time I tried it, and the last I read, it still doesn't do double buffering. So, it flickers whenever it updates. This is AFAIK... so perhaps I'm wrong?
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jjasghar · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

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khiloa · Guru Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 333 Location: Florence, SC

yes, thats it.

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miqorz · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:26 am Post subject:

I can understand not wanting all that gnome stuff but SERIOUSLY gdesklets SUCK.

And so do Karamaba.. No one needs that ram sucking, cpu intensive stuff - KDE allready filles that purpose in the bottom of our black hearts.

Just use torsmo - nice eye candy (imho) with tons of info about my system.