Shares 35 Remember Windows Vista? It introduced the desktop widgets that could show weather, memory usages, sticky notes, RSS feeds and later Twitter feeds and many more things. Probably the only good thing that came with Windows Vista was these desktop widgets. These desktop widgets continued in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Many of the users who just switched to Linux ask this question: do we have desktop widgets for Linux? While you can install (and other Linux) and can use to display system information in beautiful manner, it is not the same as desktop widgets. I meant, installing several application one by one is nit really convenient, isn’t it? So in this series, I am going to show you how to install desktop widgets in Ubuntu. Install desktop widgets in Ubuntu Linux with Screenlets: Screenlets is an application that consists of many desktop widgets in it. These desktop widgets are very similar to what we have for Windows. To install Screenlets in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions based on Ubuntu such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS, use the following command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T): sudo apt-get install screenlets screenlets-pack-all This command will install Screenlets application along with a number of widgets included in it. Please note that it is around 140 MB in size, so make sure you want to install it, in case you have limited data usage. Using Screenlets for desktop widgets: Right now I am using Elementary OS Luna. Therefore the tutorial screenshots are in Luna itself. But the procedure is same for all other Linux systems. After installing Screenlets, start the application. You will see all available desktop widgets here. You can select the one you want and click on Launch/Add to add the widget to desktop. Desktop widget thus added will be removed on next reboot. So this is more for testing purpose. If you want a desktop widget permanently added to the desktop, do check the Auto start at login option as well. ![]() Apr 27, 2016 This tutorial illustrates the methods to install and configure the screenlets application in Ubuntu. For more explanation on this video: https://www. Using Screenlets is fairly easy: launch Screenlets, select the screenlet you want to add to the desktop and check the 'Start / Stop' option on the left to start it (you can also double click the screenlet). Just decided to install the screenlets on my U-14.04 I googled for them and came up with FOSS first!;-) SO I got the following error(s) –. (cut) Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+0409-0ubuntu1) Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) Setting up refind (0.8.4-0ppa2) Fatal: Couldn’t open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables. Try ‘modprobe efivars’ as root. Installing rEFInd on Linux. The ESP doesn’t seem to be mounted! Trying to find it. // doesn’t seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Dpkg: error processing package refind (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up libgnome-menu2 (3.0.1-0ubuntu9). Cs 1.6 gui pro. Counter- Strike: Source blends award-winning team shooter Counter- Strike with the advanced technology of Source ™. Counter - Strike: Source v.63 Net assembly (2011/MULTI2) Year:2011| PC Game| Developer: Valve Corporation| Publisher: Valve Corporation| 2.10 GB Genre: Action, FPS, Online The next version of the world's best online action. Comments (0) #7:: Counter - Strike: Source v.63 Net assembly (2011/MULTI2) Author:| 1 July 2011| Views: 2057. ![]() I’ve since tried a couple of screenlets- they seem to work OK. Any ideas if the above is serious? BTW, if I should be posting this somewhere else, let me know!
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