How to install & configure Google Desktop Gadgets in openSUSE
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2008
Google Gadgets for Linux is a free opensource (licensed under Apache License) platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. The Google Desktop Gadgets for Linux are compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle.
There’s two main components to the application: one is a common gadget library responsible for running and presenting a gadget, and the other is a host program that allows the user to choose gadgets and run them on the desktop. Currently we have hosts written for GTK+ and QT, with the GTK+ host offering a sidebar similar to that of Google Desktop for Windows.
To install Google-Gadgets for Linux in openSUSE, we can simply use the 1-click install (supported on openSUSE11.0 & openSUSE 10.3) from the openSUSE Package repository or can add the repository to YaST package manager and install from there on. Let’s take the easy option of installing from the 1-click install.
From the following locations click to download the 1-click install file for your either GTK or QT as per your GNOME/KDE installation. This will download the .ymp file and open with YaST installer and complete the installation for you.
NOTE: Recommend GTK version of it as development on it seems more mature
openSUSE 11.0
Google-Gadgets-gtk
Google-Gadgets-Qt
openSUSE 10.3
Installing any of the above, will also download and install the base Google Gadget library for you.
Once installed, Google-Gadgets can be started as follows
From Terminal
opensuse11:~ # ggl-gtk
or alternatively press <ALT>+F2 and enter ggl-gtk (ggl-qt for KDE/QT).
This will launch Google Gadgets with default News feed and a clock. More can be added from the taskbar icon for Google-Gadgets.
To add a new gadget, right-click the icon and select “Add gadgets”. Select the gadget from your preferred category and click Click Add. That should do. You can also, provide a RSS URL to add the gadget.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I’ve heard that the Plasma devs are actually working on getting Google Gadgets integrated into Plasma. That would make it even more awesome!
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Wow im so glad I found this blog this post helped me alot.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Error on GTK launch
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method “getDevices” with signature “” on interface “org.freedesktop.NetworkManager” doesn’t exist
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org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method “GetProperty” with signature “s” on interface “org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager” doesn’t exist
Failed to load module smjs-script-runtime
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August 11th, 2008 at 8:07 am
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August 31st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
After doing the one-click install option the message that I am getting when I am trying to run ggl-gtk is
Program can’t start because it failed to load the libxml2-xml-parser module.
Which file or library I am missing?
Thanks in advance
George
November 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
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November 11th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Thanks!
It was very helpful!
December 27th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Thanks! This was very helpful; just need to find a wireless network meter that works on GG for Linux now
June 5th, 2009 at 2:55 am
how to start google gadgets with the last setting i set on startup?because it not shown on startup as it’s the 1st time i run the application, i red on ubunto google gadgets that they set session to be able to run at startup, how can i do something like that on opensuse 11 please help…..
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