Gimmie: A New Panel for Gnome – Installation in Ubuntu
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Install Gimmie in Ubuntu
Preparing Your System
First you need to install the following packages
sudo apt-get install make gcc g++
sudo apt-get install python2.4 python2.4-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libgnomecups1.0-dev
Now you need to download the Gimmie latest version from here using the following command
wget http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/releases/gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz
Now you have gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz file you need to extract this file using the following command
tar xzvf gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz
You should see gimmie-0.2.1 directory you need to go in to the directory using the following command to install
cd gimmie-0.2.1
Now you need to start the compilation
./configure
make
make check
make install
This will complete the installation
Now you need to restart your gnome session or logout and login back in to your desktop.
Adding Panel Applet
Now you need to right click on the panel select add panel
Once it open you should see similar to the following screen here you need to select Gimmie under Utilities section and
click on add
Once it added to the panel you should see the following screen
Gimmie Screenshots
Now we will see some screenshots
Gimmie Bar
Computer Screen Options
Applications Screen Options
Documents Screen Options
People Screen Options
Common Problems and Solutions
When I try to compile Gimmie i got the following two problems so i am giving the solutions for this
Problem
When i try to compile i got the following error
checking for GIMMIE... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6
pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6
pygobject-2.0 >= 2.6
gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.10
gnome-python-desktop-2.0 >= 2.10
libgnomecups-1.0 >= 0.2.2) were not met:
No package ‘gnome-python-2.0' found
No package ‘gnome-python-desktop-2.0' found
No package ‘libgnomecups-1.0' found
Solution
You need to install the following packages
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libgnomecups1.0-dev
Problem
Whe you try to add panel it doesn't show up in add to panel even after logging in and out
Solution
You can try installing gimmie into /usr by passing the “–prefix=/usr” arg to the configure script, which should place
the GNOME_GimmieApplet.server file in the proper location for bonobo-activation-server to see it: usually /usr/lib/bonobo/servers.
Alternately, if you installed into the default configure location (probably /usr/local) you can just copy the .server file to /usr/lib/bonobo/servers.
sudo cp /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_GimmieApplet.server /usr/lib/bonobo/servers
If all of this still doesn’t work, you may need to kill bonobo-activation-server, and/or restart gnome-panel itself.
Why use ‘sudo’ here ? “sudo tar xzvf gimmie-0.2.1.tar.gz”
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Could NOT get this to work. It would crash every time I tried to add it to my panel. 🙁
Works great except People tab 🙂
When I try to install I get ;
Making install in data
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/vincent/gimmie-0.2.1/data’
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/vincent/gimmie-0.2.1/data’
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers” || mkdir -p — . “/usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers”
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/bonobo’: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-serverDATA] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vincent/gimmie-0.2.1/data’
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vincent/gimmie-0.2.1/data’
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
And I’m a total noob 😉
Help,
I got all the way to the adding panel applet and my Ubuntu panel is gone… How do I get it back?
I tried gnome-panel and all i get is an err msg “I’ve detected a panel already running, and will now exit” and nothing happens. I’m stuck, how do I get my panel back?
FYI, it was gone before I started this process. I accidentally deleted my only panel and need it back so I can continue this process.
I get the same error as post #2 and I think you should add python-dev to the required dependencies.
basicaly need to install build-essential python2.4 python2.4-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libgnomecups1.0-dev python-dev
but I would like to be able to try this so if you could post a fix to the Crashing when trying to add to panel would be nice. Using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
using gimmie-0.2.4.tar.gz solved the crash when adding to panel issue
version 2.7 fails to make install on Ubuntu tribe-5.
You can just install this via Synaptic Package Manager.. And then follow the rest of the tutorial
how do you install via synaptic package manager
i used to have it but i deleted it because i thought it was junk mail and now i cant get it back
I solved the second problem with the second solution you mentioned.
Thank you very much :]