Compiz, screenlets, and fedora 8

bourne · 01-28-2008, 03:43 PM

Hello there.
I recently installed fedora's newest release in fedora 8. I decided to give compiz a go just for fun. I discovered that it has a similar feature to mac's widgets called screenlets/widgets. I went through a tutorial located here to install compiz. Once I had it installed I attempted to use the screenlets/widgets, however I was unable to. I did a little searching and discovered that you have to install it separately. I was just wondering if anyone had any success with this? I found RPM package but I was unable to discover exactly where and how i am supposed to install it. Any help would greatly be appreciated

thanks in advance

todd

oskar · 01-28-2008, 08:57 PM

http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Download

Download them from here and follow the instructions. A warning though: a v0.0.10 release does not speak for stability. There are other widget programs that you might want to try first. (I don't know any by name)

arijit_2404 · 01-28-2008, 10:07 PM

why don't you try out 'gDesklets'? Its easy to setup and use too.

oskar · 01-29-2008, 10:10 AM

Yup, that's one of them.

bourne · 01-29-2008, 05:27 PM

Oh wow really there are other easier to use widget programs eh?
that is amazing news I had no idea. I am not to big on them really but I thought that it might be something fun to play around with I will look into both the link and the other program. Thank you so much for the speedy responses

thanks again
todd