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Linux4Morocco

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 23

Screenlets on your slitaz

Well I'm a linux newbie, I started discovering the linux world 4 months ago, with debian, ubuntu, fedora, mint, and others but my old Dell latitude 110l was too old for these monsters, so I gave up and return back to XP until I discovered the tiny distos, and tried puppy it was light but not stable, till I found slitaz, that perfectly do the job, but with some lacks, when I tried ubuntu I liked screenlets a lot , but when I installed slitaz I realised that there is no screenlets for it, I tried to make it myself and I'm happy to share my first succes with you, I installed it and worked perfectly

If you wanna try there are the steps  " pour les froncophones je vais faire un wiki en fançais dans quelque instants " :

1-I assume you already have installed Make, bash, perl, etc if not install all of them !!

2-download the source package : I've uploaded it to http://www.4shared.com/archive/id7PbDx_/screenlets-016tar.html

3-extract the contents to your home folder

4-Now it's time for the dependencies !!! :

open your terminal and do some keybord work

# tazpkg get-install python

# tazpkg get-install pygtk

# tazpkg get-install pycairo

# tazpkg get-install python-xdg

# tazpkg get-install python-gnome-desktop

# tazpkg get-install libwnck

# tazpkg get-install librsvg

5-now cd to the extracted folder and :

# make install

6- enter this command :

# gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache

7-lunch the screen lets manager from menu > utilities  > screenlets

" you will find the manager completly empty"

8- go to gnome-look.org and download all the widgets you want

9-from the manager click "install" and browse to the location of your widgets and install them one by by one

10-lunch the widgets from the manager and congrats !!!

this was tested on cooking,

Here are some shots from my desktop "attachments do not allow big files ":

http://www4.0zz0.com/2012/02/18/19/832396013.png

http://www4.0zz0.com/2012/02/18/19/853940293.png

Linux4Morocco

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 23

Re: Screenlets on your slitaz

a mistake :

its : # tazpkg get-install gnome-python-desktop

not : # tazpkg get-install python-gnome-desktop

CamiloMM

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Registered: 2012-06-18

Posts: 21

Re: Screenlets on your slitaz

Just wanted to say, congrats! (by looking at those screenshots).

Especially for being new to Linux, that is very good