How To: Get Widgets Using Compiz in Ubuntu 7.10
There are some really nifty widgets available for linux users called Screenlets. Here’s a quick How To to install Screenlets in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) using Compiz Widget Plugin. If you don’t care to do it yourself using the How To, click below for an auto install script:
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NOTE: To use the script, after download do a “sudo chmod +x screenlets.sh” on it to make it executable. Then run it with “sudo ./screenlets”. After you’ve run the script open Compiz settings and enable
Below each line of code is entered seperately
1. Update Your Aptitude Sources
sudo su -c 'echo deb http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu gutsy screenlets >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
wget http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu/hendrikkaju.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
2. Install Screenlets
sudo apt-get install --assume-yes screenlets
mkdir ~/.config/Screenlets
mkdir ~/.config/autostart
3. Open your compiz Advanced Settings and enable the Regex Matching and Widget Layer plugins.
4. Open the Widget Layer plugin and go to the Behavior tab. Paste the following into the space provided and close the window:
name=Screenlet.py
5. Now you can enable various Screenlets under your menu’s Other section and hit the F9 key to see them and make them disappear.