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effigies

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Saturday, July 4th 2009, 2:31am

Plasma Konsole

Okay, so I'm basically new to KDE. I mean, I've used it before, but mostly I just use fluxbox. So anyway, I'm kind of digging KDE4, but it irritates me that I can't get a konsole widget on my desktop. That'd just be awesome.
http://bonkel.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/k…dded-in-plasma/
So this guy appears to have done it. Now I downloaded his code, and cmade it. But when I Right Click -> Add Widgets -> Install New Widgets -> Install Widget from Local File -> Plasmoid, I can't find any files that it will let me install.
Can anybody tell me how to make this work?
Thanks a ton.

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Sunday, August 23rd 2009, 10:09pm

Did a "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr && make" and used checkinstall to build a deb package. Installed fine and I can add it to my desktop via the Add Widget Dialog (it's in the list of installed widgets: konsole terminal session).
You don't need to add it through the install new widget dialog if you execute a make install or checkinstall after cmake.

Have another problem with it:

It only adds a plasmoid container without content - no konsole in it. Installed is /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_konsole.so and /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-konsole-default.desktop.

EDIT: Found my error - oh boy... :wacko: The package by default is named konsole and that overwrote my KDE konsole. Of course the widget window is empty... Reinstalled KDE's konsole and rebuilt the plasma-widget-package and gave it another name - now it works! Alas you cannot make that widget semi-transparent, *that* would be cool.

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "kerridis" (Aug 23rd 2009, 10:19pm)

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