Populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers... whatever you can imagine! Virtually anything is possible and maybe even available some day.
$ migration-tool
Many thanks to Dave Masterson for writing this handy wizard!
Display files can be opened using
$ gdesklets open <displayfile>
If the gdesklets-daemon wasn't running, this will start up the daemon as well. You can only have one daemon per X-display. The daemon can be stopped again by calling
$ gdesklets stop
Usage of the command line frontend:
gdesklets [option] <command> [arguments...]
<command>: open <files> (Opens the given display files) start (Runs the gDesklets daemon) stop (Stops the gDesklets daemon) list (Lists open displays) restart (Restarts the gDesklets daemon) profile <profile> (Switches to the given profile) profile (Shows the current and the available profiles) shell (Opens the graphical shell) slay (Kills the daemon -- use in emergency) about (Prints information about gDesklets) version (Prints gDesklets version) help (Displays this text)
[option]: --translucent (Enables translucency on the freedesktop.org XServer)
The --translucent option is still in an experimental state, though. It may or may not work as expected.
$ gdesklets shell
The shell currently lets you create and switch between profiles, install new desklets and search for desklets. New desklets can be installed by dragging links from your web browser or files from the file manager into its window, or by selecting the menu item "File -> Install package...".
Displays (as we call the applets) will usually appear in the top left corner of your screen when you first run them. You can move displays around by pressing and holding down the middle mouse button. 'gDesklets' will remember the new position of the display for the future.
The site 'http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org' is the place where you can get new desklets or upload your own creations for sharing them with other users.
The site 'http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=23' is the official gDesklets' 'Discussion Forum' where you can get help.
You can meet the gDesklets developers and other fans on the IRC channel #gdesklets on GIMPnet (irc.gimp.org).
* Martin Grimme <martin@pycage.de>.
* Christian Meyer <chrisime@gnome-de.org>.
* Jesse Andrews <jdandr2@cs.uky.edu>.
* Christian Meyer -- ideas and sensor programming
* Jesse Andrews -- sensor programming
* Johannes "Waldgeist" Rebhan -- artwork
* Christian Neumair -- installation
* Sebastien Bacher -- man page and lots of other stuff
* Luke Stroven -- gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org and 'gDesklets' forum
* James Henstridge -- excellent GTK bindings for Python
If you encounter bugs which are not listed here, please post a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org for gDesklets.
* some versions of sawfish show displays with the 'below' flag set above other windows; this is a bug in sawfish; go complain there :)
* some buggy versions of 'nautilus' can cause 'gDesklets' to crash when the desktop background is being changed
* transparency might be broken on Xinerama displays; we do not have Xinerama and thus cannot test it. If you want to help testing, please drop us a mail
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