What "sidebar" is this?

[MDesigner]

I don't know what the terminology is for this.. I'm sure there's a term for it:

http://www3.telus.net/public/dale_d/ss2.html

I REALLY like that sidebar with the weather, system stats, etc. What is it? Where can I find others like it?

In fact....is there a really good Linux software site I can check out? Is freshmeat.net pretty much the standard?

[JohnT]

Looks like gdesklets..

Gdesklets homepage (http://pycage.de/software_gdesklets.html)
Software and Gdesklets (http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/519920/gDesklets.html)
Software......Go Here (http://www.distrowatch.com/) Right on the front page are links.

[mdwatts]

Also sourceforge.net and http://www.linuxapps.org/ besides KDE specific apps you can find on www.kde-apps.org

[Hayl]

yes, it is gedesklets... (most of the ones in the Screenshot, I hacked from the original... some more, some less).

[MDesigner]

Is gdesklets only for Gnome? I installed gdesklets via apt-get on KDE 3.2.2 (MEPIS distro), then ran it.. nothing happened.

[merclude]

you have to add gdesklet displays for anything to happen.

just fyi, there's a program called gkrellm that prolly does everything else you want, and doesnt take as much resources..

but damn, gdesklets are so pretty ;)

[JuiceWVU202]

Are there any good resources for pre-made gdesklets? I googled but all i can seem to find are places to downlaod the gdesklets binaries/sources. I know for kde there is www.kdelook.org, is there anything similar for gnome?

[stevewabc]

Just a note If your running Kde3.2 you can also use superkaramba-0.33 :)

[stevewabc]

The installs are easy!!
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/

[JuiceWVU202]

for the love of god i must be a complete idiot as i was at gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org earlier and failed to see the "Displays and sensors" section :(

[JohnT]

Originally posted by JuiceWVU202
for the love of god i must be a complete idiot as i was at gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org earlier and failed to see the "Displays and sensors" section :( Confession is good for the soul.:p

[MDesigner]

Blech, I HATE SuperKaramba. For me, it's so buggy and creates all kinds of error messages. gdesklets rules. :)

Magically, all I had to do was run gdesklets on some displays.. and even if I reboot/logout, and come back, gdesklets starts automatically. How does it do that? It's not in my ~/.kde/Autostart dir... and I don't have .xinitrc or .xsession files.