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Lesser-known Gnome Panel Applets can improve your desktop

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT
The Gnome Desktop Environment comes with a set of default panel applets included. A little searching in your distribution´s repositories and on the Internet will uncover a few extra applets which are not included in the official Gnome offering, but which you may find very useful all the same. Let's take a brief look at some of them.


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matchbox-panel(1)					      General Commands Manual						 matchbox-panel(1)

NAME
matchbox-panel - a desktop panel for resource-limited systems SYNOPSIS
matchbox-panel [options] DESCRIPTION
matchbox-panel is a desktop panel, which can hold small `applets' such as a clock, system monitor and wireless monitor. Matchbox is a base environment for the X Window System running on non-desktop embedded platforms such as handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks and anything else for which screen space, input mechanisms or system resources are limited. OPTIONS
-display display X display to connect to -geometry geometry Use --size/--orientation instead --id int Panel number --size int, -s int Width/height of panel in pixels --orientation north|east|south|west --default-apps app list, -da app list Comma-separated list of apps to add to a panel when no session starts --margin-start +int Initial app offset in pixels (panel start) --margin-end +int Initial app offset in pixels (panel end) --titlebar Request panel in titlebar --no-session, -ns Disable automatic session saving --no-menu, -nm Disable popup menu --no-flip, -nf Disable automatic panel rotation when display is rotated --overide-bubbles, -o Set override-redirect attribute on popup information windows --help help AUTHOR
matchbox-panel was written by Matthew Allum <mallum@o-hand.com>. Jul 17 2004 matchbox-panel(1)