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DIY gnome applets

by nicolasbrailo on 9/29/11, 1:19 PM with 3 comments

• by sciurus on 9/29/11, 3:19 PM

  I think this is not relevant in GNOME 3, which no longer has applets. Instead, you write extensions. There are multiple simple examples at http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/04/gnome-3-shell-extensions.ht...

• by _3ex7 on 9/29/11, 4:05 PM

  Not specific to the GNOME environment, but some people might want to check out dzen if they are interested in piping CLI commands to their desktop.

  http://sites.google.com/site/gotmor/dzen