Install Conky On Mac Os X
As the title states, does anyone know of a dashboard alternative for Ubuntu? This is useful feature in Mac OS X, middle-clicking on the mouse brings up a customizable page where you can put anything from weather and stock reports to games. Is there any equivilent for this in Ubuntu?
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The compiz widget layer + screenlets works like this. You can also install or Plasma if you want even more fancy stuff.
You can enable the widget layer in CCSM. (More detail will be added to this answer when I have some more time).
- Run:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager screenlets screenlets-pack-all - Open this and go the widget layer plugin:
- Widget Layer options:
- Run the screenlets app: alt+f2+
screenlets - Set the screenlets options so that they show on the widget layer by default:
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Jun 22, 2011 - Desktop System Monitor on Linux Mint 10 and OS X. Behold the badge of my geekiness with this screenshot of my MacBook OS X desktop using GeekTool. The easiest way I have found to configure GeekTool is by installing Geeklets. Now over on the Linux side we have something called Conky.
Cairo-Dock seems to be close to what you're asking for. You can install it simply by running the following:
Hope this helps!
I'm not quite sure what you have in mind, but Cairo Dock allows for bringing up customizable pages where you can put things like weather reports. So I'll second the previous recommendation of Cairo Dock.
You can have a look at some screenshots demonstrating what you can do with Cairo Dock using the following link:http://glx-dock.org/mc_album.php?a=3
System Restore On Mac Os X
I think CONKY is the best dock around, it is officially supported and you can download it by running 'sudo apt-get install conky' in the terminal.