Comments on: Adding Wbar, Prism, and Gadgets to Ubuntu

By: matt2k

matt2k — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:10:46 +0000

#include
without spaces ofc…

By: matt2k

matt2k — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:09:44 +0000

extern “C”:
#include

By: matt2k

matt2k — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:08:12 +0000

@Dustin,
If u want install wbar on amd64 u have to download soruces:
http://wbar.googlecode.com/files/wbar-1.3.3.tbz2

After that, u have to edit IconLoader.cc and add in exter “C”:
#include
Also add it in file SuperBar.cc

The last step is to type few commands like:
make, sudo make install
that’s all

BR,
matt2k

By: Quentin

Quentin — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:28:59 +0000

Great !
I was looking for a simple dock for Ubuntu. It’s perfect. Thanks for all the explanations

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:46:57 +0000

I tried gOS and like it but wanted ubuntu 9.04. I was going to try and get 9.04 to be like gOS and found this article. Helped a lot! thanks!!!

By: Reg Grundies

Reg Grundies — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:03:35 +0000

What a terrific article! I’ve just discovered GOS via the Australian created Kogan netbook (http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-agora-netbook-pro/) and am once again in love with computers.

By: Tuan

Tuan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:41:45 +0000

I love the articles. I try to install the wbar and got everything working up to the installation of the wbarconf deb file. When I downloaded and save on my desktop, I ran the package, just like I did with wbar, it gave me an error “Dependency is not satisfiable…” Will anyone be able to give me the hint on how to fix this? I actually got the wbar at the bottom and it is working very smooth. Just need to config with the app I needed. Thanks and thank you for a great articles.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:30:39 +0000

Very nice … as an FYI, gOS comes with this UI (wbar & Google gadgets) configured on the desktop right out of the box…

By: ali

ali — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:05:01 +0000

nice article

By: D H

D H — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:53:43 +0000

I like docks too, but why not just make the lower gnome panel into a dock? You can adjust show/hide, transparency, and other things by using the gnome configuration editor. Find “panel” in there and you will see extended options for the gnome panels.

I have found that this works better than any dock for linux that i have used. Windows is a different story however, and for that i recommend a dock called “rocketdock”.

Enjoy.

By: deviceguru

deviceguru — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:24:07 +0000

@BeaMeUp:
> question: In the original bottom panel, any open apps were displayed in a tab there. How do I integrate that into the top panel?

Right-clock on a blank area of the top panel. Click “Add to panel,” select “Window List” from the list of functions, and then click the “Add” button to add it to the panel.

By: BeaMeUp

BeaMeUp — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:17:23 +0000

For those of you having trouble with the start up script, I found this utility to do that.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/wbar-util-36331.shtml

Thanks for the write up, good job.
1 question: In the original bottom panel, any open apps were displayed in a tab there. How do I integrate that into the top panel?

By: Shekhar Tiwatne

Shekhar Tiwatne — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:01:08 +0000

Nice writeup. Many thanks.

By: Batshua

Batshua — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:07:54 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Dustin. (Mythbuntu Intrepid Ibex AMD64) I am trying to build it from source, and it doesn’t have a configure file, so I’m just getting all kinds of nasty errors. Do you have any suggestions on either another way to attack this problem or an alternate apps?

By: HerkSC

HerkSC — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:39:28 +0000

This is sweet! One thing I have not found how to do:
Google Calendar notifications (without opening the calendar itself, or connecting with Evolution/Sunbird, etc.)

There are plenty of apps for new mail notifications, but nothing for calendars (with snooze option would be best). In windows, the Google Calendar gadget gives notifications, but not in Linux.