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