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naphtali

New Member

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 2

how do you add temperature, and cpu scaling applets to tint2 tray?

Hello, new to chrunchbang, didn't find what I was looking for by searching.
In ubuntu, you just right click on the panel, and select add, and you get a list to add, such as weather applet, sys mon etc. etc.
I have volume, network applet, and power applet, but would like to add more.
How do you accomplish this in crunch? I installed crunchbang-9.04.01.i386.iso (IBM T60 laptop)

kind regards

omns

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,131

Re: how do you add temperature, and cpu scaling applets to tint2 tray?

tint2 doesn't use applets like the gnome panel.The only thing you can add are things like parcellite (clipboard manager) which will appear in the systray. You can add this by unchecking its entry in autostart.sh

If you want a panel that has applets then lxpanel might be more to your liking. Install it from the repos then add an entry for it to your autostart.sh (preferences-->openbox config --> edit autostart.sh). The easiest way would be to replace the existing tint2 entry. Don't forget to keep the & at the end

RubiksQubed

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From: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 21

Re: how do you add temperature, and cpu scaling applets to tint2 tray?

As omns said, use a panel such as lxpanel. However, your choice in applets is very, very limited. I use xfce4-panel, and you find many, many applets in synaptic to accomplish what you want.

A note though, if you're hoping to add a xfce4-weather-plugin, there is a bug that won't allow the weather to be parsed. Honestly, I think that the weather service the panel uses changed how weather is displayed on their site, thus preventing the applet from working.

The solution for me was to use the plugin provided for karmic. Here's what I did.

1. Download the source package: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u … rig.tar.gz

2. Extract the package: tar xvzf xfce4-weather-plugin_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz

3. Switch to the extracted directory: cd xfce4-weather-plugin-0.7.0/

4. Install any necessary dependencies: sudo apt-get build-dep xfce4-weather-plugin

5. Finish installing with ./configure && make && sudo make install

Also, as omns also stated, if you'd like to start xfce4-panel at startup, you'd need to alter autostart.sh. To test it out, close tint2 and run xfce4-panel in gmrun (alt-f2).

It must be noted though, that there are a few dependencies for xfce4-panel, and building the plugin will require at the very least, one dev package (xfce4-panel), so that might be a determining factor, but if you want something that resembles something a bit more like gnome-panel in functionality, then this is a good choice. As for me, my setup has 4GB of Ram, 200GB of HD space, etc., so #! is more of a choice as opposed to a necessity. Taxing my system a bit more than need be is of little consequence, though running the panel seems little more resource intensive than other options available.

Last edited by RubiksQubed (2009-07-17 12:08:04)

naphtali

New Member

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 2

Re: how do you add temperature, and cpu scaling applets to tint2 tray?

I really don't need a weather plugin/applet, I was hoping for a simple solution to add some applets to the "stock" #! setup, specifically the temperature/fan speed applet, and the cpu scaling applet.

I did try lxpanel, but not sure about that, will take some further usage to see If I like or not.

Other than that, I really need no other applets.

Any other suggestions other than already supplied (much appreciated I must add) ?

Kind regards,

iggykoopa

Script Master

Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 1,486

Re: how do you add temperature, and cpu scaling applets to tint2 tray?

You can do all of those in conky. Heres a list of the conky variables to set it up http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html .

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