Deskbar Applet is a Gnome applet to allow easy access to various search engines (like Google's Deskbar for Windows). (read more)
I'm not new to the Deskbar applet. I've seen it on numerous websites, and have seen its praises as well, but I've never actually been too interested on using it. I was a fool.
Is there any tool similar to Deskbar available for Ubuntu 12.10?
Using Unity, the file lens does the job, but I can't work with Unity, so I have to use another desktop environment (fallback version/xfce).
The workflow that I need is the typical deskbar one, ie., for opening a random file:
- using a keyboard shortcut globally available
- typing the first letters of the name
- having the default f
We have Hamster working from command line, but dying in panel on (some?) 64 bit machines due to some threading issues or something and I totally can’t find the instructions i remember reading and using two years ago on how to debug applet once in panel.
Installed lm_sensors, gnome-applet-sensors, ran sensors_detect and put the hw sensors applet on my panel. Works great. (Fedora 11 by the way, and a Phenom II X4 965).
Do you actually need the second GNOME panel at the bottom? Or is it just taking up precious screen space?
Those are one of the questions I asked myself today. Having two panels, in my opinion, is just too much (get it?). All of the applets at the bottom fit perfectly at the top and removing the extra panel also holds various advantages like:
I would like to remove an applet from the GNOME applet panel (the Gwibber applet, to be precise). Is this possible? If so, would any techniques also apply to other applets that other programs may place there?
ZevenOS-Neptune, a Linux operating system with software optimized for slower computers and with elements of BeOS, has just reached version 5.0 Beta 1.
ZevenOS-Neptune 5.0 Beta has once again entered the development cycle and now it features the deskbar mode in the xfce4-panel.
According to the developer, the new implementation of the deskbar mode still presents some problems, such as not being a
How many applets are currently on your panel? Only the default ones that Ubuntu brought? Yes, well, I have to tell you something.
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