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gnome-panel package

Gnome panel on Lubuntu 10.10

Asked by oocevin

Is there and if so how to get gnome panel to run on lubuntu desktop.

I want the weather that it has. Been trying for a few weeks now.

I do not want to install ubuntu desktop environment.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you install gnome-panel it will pull in a LOT of gnome deps but you should be able to run it. I recommend you add a startup item to kil off lxpanel

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#2

If you describe in detail what you want to do, which you're thinking you should do with gnome-panel, we might be able to tell you how to accomplish it with lxpanel (or some other facility).

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#3

I would like to make it my default panel.
I love the weather applet (RADAR)

But I want to keep the speed of
Lubuntu LXDE :-)

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#4

Since gnome-panel is designed to work with the GNOME desktop environment and to tightly interface with the other components of GNOME, it will install numerous other parts of GNOME as dependencies if you install it on a Lubuntu system. So while you can do so, you'll get lots of GNOME components, and some of them will probably run all the time (and some of them will probably *have* to be running, for gnome-panel to work properly). You can see what additional packages will be installed, if you install gnome-panel, by opening an LXTerminal window, first updating your package cache:

sudo apt-get update

And then simulating an installation of gnome-panel (the absence of sudo is intentional--simulations do not generally have to be run as root):

apt-get -s install gnome-panel

To the best of my knowledge, there is still no weather applet for lxpanel. However, GNOME is not the only desktop environment whose panel has a weather applet available--there is one for xfce4-panel (from the Xfce desktop environment, which is considerably lighter weight than GNOME). You could see what else would get installed automatically with xfce4-panel:

apt-get -s install xfce4-panel

The package providing the Xfce weather panel applet is xfce4-weather-plugin.

But the *best* solution might just be to use gdesklets (http://gdesklets.de/), obtainable in Ubuntu by installing the 'gdesklets' package. There is a weather applet for gdesklets, and gdesklets won't replace, and shouldn't interfere, with lxpanel--it is not itself a *panel*.

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#5

I did:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -s install gnome-panel

Now, how to make it show up on my
desktop.

I know how to install linux and a few
other things but that is it.

How to get ubuntu panel to show
up on my desktop???

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Best Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#6

If you read my post carefully, you'll see that "sudo apt-get -s ..." performs a *simulation*, to tell you the consequences of whatever operation you're contemplating doing. It does not actually install any software. I was recommending doing this (and paying attention to what it said) to give you an idea of the degree to which you would increase the bloat and potential performance decrease on your system (since you had said you were concerned about your system running slower). Simulations do not have to be run as root (with sudo), but they can be.

To actually perform the operation, remove the -s flag. Once you have installed gnome-panel, it might appear on your desktop automatically; more likely, you may have to enable it by replacing the line "lxpanel --profile Lubuntu" or "lxpanel --profile LXDE" with "gnome-panel" in the appropriate configuration file. In duplicate question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+question/163719, you were unable to locate this configuration file, so I recommend running a more general search, using "grep -Rs lxpanel /etc". Whichever file you edit, you must log in with the corresponding session type in order to use the configuration. (In the future, please avoid posting two questions about the same problem--your question should have been more completely answered more quickly if all the discussion about it had taken place in the same question thread).

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#7

I have been trying to do this for bout a year now.
I work 2 jobs so I do not have much time. Got in a hurry.

Thank you for you time and knowledge.