Comments on: Adding Wbar, Prism, and Gadgets to Ubuntu

By: electromagnetic

electromagnetic — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:22:37 +0000

hi there
I installed the wbar through the software centre and although i got it , but can’t figure out how to customize the icons. The default ones don’t work (I have freshly installed Ubuntu 11.04).

———>> The mentioned file is not avaliable:

quote from original post:
“Next, download this file to your desktop, set its permissions to executable (“chmod +x wbar_start”), and move it to /usr/bin/ on your system (“sudo mv ~/Desktop/wbar_start /usr/bin/).”

———————–>> The link for customization of wbar(wbarconf) is also not working, the file not found ERROR message appears.

Any help will be appreciated!

By: Uwe

Uwe — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:34:16 +0000

Hi,

installed the wbar following your directions on ubuntu karmic (9.10). Everything worked as expected. Well written! Thanks.

It was cumbersome to add all the apps I wanted and tried to find another way to add apps. Indeed it is possible to drag and drop app links from the Applications, Places, and Systems menu into the left area of wbarconf!

With some items, you need to find the icon, but descriptions (“name” to “title”) and commands are always copied. I can warmly suggest this method of configuring wbar.

All the best,

Uwe

By: matt2k

matt2k — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:10:46 +0000

#include
without spaces ofc…

By: matt2k

matt2k — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:09:44 +0000

extern “C”:
#include

By: matt2k

matt2k — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:08:12 +0000

@Dustin,
If u want install wbar on amd64 u have to download soruces:
http://wbar.googlecode.com/files/wbar-1.3.3.tbz2

After that, u have to edit IconLoader.cc and add in exter “C”:
#include
Also add it in file SuperBar.cc

The last step is to type few commands like:
make, sudo make install
that’s all

BR,
matt2k

By: Quentin

Quentin — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:28:59 +0000

Great !
I was looking for a simple dock for Ubuntu. It’s perfect. Thanks for all the explanations

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:46:57 +0000

I tried gOS and like it but wanted ubuntu 9.04. I was going to try and get 9.04 to be like gOS and found this article. Helped a lot! thanks!!!

By: Reg Grundies

Reg Grundies — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:03:35 +0000

What a terrific article! I’ve just discovered GOS via the Australian created Kogan netbook (http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-agora-netbook-pro/) and am once again in love with computers.

By: Tuan

Tuan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:41:45 +0000

I love the articles. I try to install the wbar and got everything working up to the installation of the wbarconf deb file. When I downloaded and save on my desktop, I ran the package, just like I did with wbar, it gave me an error “Dependency is not satisfiable…” Will anyone be able to give me the hint on how to fix this? I actually got the wbar at the bottom and it is working very smooth. Just need to config with the app I needed. Thanks and thank you for a great articles.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:30:39 +0000

Very nice … as an FYI, gOS comes with this UI (wbar & Google gadgets) configured on the desktop right out of the box…