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Adding applets to top panel in Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by William Pabon

Is it possible to add an applet to the top panel? I want to add the 'force quit' applet (when I find it in Ubuntu 11.10), so that I can shut down a misbehaving app from the desktop. Thanks.
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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-re-enable-notification-area.html

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#2

Andrew:
 Did according to your instructions, but now I need to find and install on the panel the force quit applet. Please, help.
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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#3

Hello,

In 10.10 you just had to right click on the panel. In 11.10 you have to use Alt and then Right Click.

Regards,

Allan :)

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#4

Allan:
Neither Right Click or Alt Right Click work on my machine. I have 10.10.and 10.04 on other machines and they work fine, showing a menu for me to add apps to the panel, but not in 11.10. Do I have to perform an additional configuration besides the one addressed on answer #1? Thanks for your help.
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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#5

Hello,

I am running 11.10 on a laptop but overrode Unity by installing Gnome. The Alt right click works fine under this scenario.

Regards,

Allan :).

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#6

Should I consider this problem a bug in Unity?
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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#7

I found out an application for 11.10 called FlashFreeze that does the same thing as 'force quit', but in order to install it I need to add the following PPA to the Software Sources.

ppa:shnatsel/flashfreeze

How I do this?
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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shnatsel/flashfreeze; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install flashfreeze

Same command for any PPA. If you read the command it makes sense. You must run apt-get update after adding a PPA so the new package list can be pulled down

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#9

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.