Monday, July 14, 2008

How to: Install The Google Gadgets in Ubuntu!


Google Gadget was only for Windows and Mac, now finnaly is for Linux.

Here is how we install them!


Open System->Administration->Software Sources->Third Party repo's

we add this

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main
Reload Repos!!!

After that in Terminal :

sudo apt-get install google-gadgets
and we execute it

Press Alt-F2 and type in ggl-gtk

Thats it!!!

If you want to auto start google gadgets:

open sessions via System->Preferences->Sessions
Then click +Add and input the fields like this:
Name:Google Gadgets
Command Line:sleep 10 ; ggl-gtk
Click ok and then make sure its check marked to startup.

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