Sticking gkrellm on the Gnome panel

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Randseed · Post by **Randseed** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:56 pm

Okay, stupid question here, but it's driving me nuts.

Last night, I managed to get gkrellm2 to stick to the panel on the right side of my screen. This had the nice side-effect of causing window maximizations to treat the left border of gkrellm as the screen edge, so that windows wouldn't maximize under gkrellm.

I've tried to dock the damned thing again, and I've so far failed. I have "set window type to be dock or panel" enabled, but no dice. I've tried dragging it into the panel with no luck.

Any ideas?

Randseed · Post by **Randseed** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:09 pm

A cheesy workaround for this is to create a right or left empty Gnome panel. Make sure 'autohide' is off. Put Gkrellm over it. Adjust the width of the panel to the width of gkrellm. Then the applications get a report of screen size that is screensize minus width of Gkrellm, so they don't cover it up.

sawatts · Post by **sawatts** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:26 am

The same subject, but from the opposite (?) perspective...

I was quite happy with gkrellm sitting in the bottom-left of the screen, transparent, and behind other windows. It did not use to affect the screen boundary for maximizing and icon placement.

However, following a regular sync/emerge world last weekend, gkrellm now acts as the right edge of the screen with respect to maximizing and icon placements. Gkrellm was updated (certainly the config file was [x86]). I can reposition windows over the area though, so this is more of an irritation (esp, since the fonts also changed, so I have had to widen the display area).

IMO gkrellm was fine as, effectively, background decoration. Any idea how to get it back to the previous behavour?

Update: Well, just logged in this evening and gkrellm is back to behaving as before (background decoration). Go figure...

apmurray · Post by **apmurray** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:51 am

If you like the GNOME Panel and the functionality of Gkrellm, check out:
GNOME Sensors Applet
Hardwrae Monitor
Both are GNOME Panel Applets to monitor Sensor Readings (GSA & HM), and System Specs (HM).
GSA only needs standard GTK / GNOME stuff whereas HM needs the Gtk C++ bindings and other stuff.

AdmiralNemo · Post by **AdmiralNemo** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:07 pm

I am also trying to get gkrellm to dock in the gnome panel, (Gnome 2.12.3), and I am having no luck. I created a new panel, right-clicked it and selected "Add to Panel." A window opened, but in it was a list of only gnome applets. I also installed bubblemon but it isn't in this list either. How do I add a custom app here? In fluxbox, starting a dockapp automatically sends it to the slit. I don't know what to do.

Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:53 am

AdmiralNemo wrote:I am also trying to get gkrellm to dock in the gnome panel, (Gnome 2.12.3), and I am having no luck. I created a new panel, right-clicked it and selected "Add to Panel." A window opened, but in it was a list of only gnome applets. I also installed bubblemon but it isn't in this list either. How do I add a custom app here? In fluxbox, starting a dockapp automatically sends it to the slit. I don't know what to do.

Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance

I am having the same problem with bubblemon and a few other applets I recently installed - they do not show up in the add an applet menu - how do I add them in there? I can launch bubblemon from a terminal but it just opens up in its own little window.

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