Hi spiders ! , I wonder if there are some desktop-widgets for slitaz other that conky, something like weather, clock, calendar, cpu and memory gauge and stuff, when I was on Ubuntu I used screenlets, a great widgets manager, I wish to see something like that on slitaz desktop !
and a light and small dock like ubuntu's docky can be a good alternative to cairo-dock " ressources hungry "
thanks for you great work devs !!
Desktop widgets, dock !
(45 posts) (7 voices)- Started 13 years ago by Linux4Morocco
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Linux4Morocco
offlineMemberPosted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredi would recomend screenlets
http://screenlets.org/index.php/ScreenshotsPosted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterI wouldn't exactly call screenlets 'light'. When I used it on Ubuntu, it was one of the biggest resources drag on my whole system (except when synaptic decided to do 'indexing'). It also needs a composite manager running like compiz, beryl or compiz-fusion to avoid getting black squares - all of which require a supported graphics card to work. SliTaz is also missing two python dependencies to make it work and which are GNOME related. Also note that screenlets is HEAVILY aimed at only being used on Ubuntu. I dare you to try downloading it's latest source code without going to launchpad or using bazaar ;)
Compared to this (and that python, pycairo and composite managers are used), it's actually HEAVIER to use screenlets than it would be to use cairo-clock and conky... but good luck to the one that actually tries to install and package it, because I sure as hell won't.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredWork good on Lubuntu that uses lxde and openbox, i will try it anyways ;)
But thats just couse i am as i am, a difficult person hehePosted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterGood luck finding, converting/compiling and installing the missing requirements. Especially getting compiz to work ;)
Also note that Lubuntu is part of Ubuntu's family...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Linux4Morocco
offlineMemberScreenlets does not require compiz, it just needs a better graphics driver and shadows effects to avoid the black squares, that's all.
for compiz, I was running it on puppy, I'm pretty sure that it won't be that much difficult to install it on slitaz .Posted 13 years ago # -
pankso
offlineKey MasterHi,
Just to let you know, we have a composite manager insalled by default on SliTaz :-) It can do transparency, opacity, shadows and is fine to use with screenlets or other widget like cairo-clock. The composite manager on SliTaz is called 'xcompmgr' you can use it from the Openbox menu (Desktop effect) or from the cmdline:
$ xcompmgr -c -r 10
- Christophe
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterFine. I'll try to make it work just to prove to you all it won't :|
Posted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregistered:)
Posted 13 years ago # -
michaelbischof
offlineMemberThen it is even better. I have to ask around. At the place where I work there should be some people to understand, may be, Tamazight.
Let us see whether it is possible to add screenlets to Slitaz without having to install half of the Gnome desktop as dependencies. I mean: the question is still open and no reason to laugh - or not laugh!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterYeah, I give up. Unlike what screenlets' website says, it requires ALOT of additional libs to work which isn't in the repository and I'm so not finding, compiling and installing 10 obscure packages just so I can have something I'll never use. The author had to use EVERY obscure and non-standard python library he could find it seems.
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