Welcome to the unofficial gDesklets Desklet Archive!
As most of the available desklets have been gone since the old gDesklets homepage has gone offline it became really hard to find the older desklets. So we set up this site with all the desklets we have collected and found on the internet. A very good source has been the gdesklets-data_0.35.4.orig.tar.gz from Debian which is a nice collection and holds more than 80 desklets and sensors/controls.
Please be aware that we offer here ALL desklets that we got and will be finding, even if they are very old and deprecated and will not be working with newer gDesklets versions. Furthermore please notice, that these desklets come with
- no warranty
- no description
- and no support!
All white-spaces in filenames have been deleted or replaced.
If you have more desklets, ideas, corrections, comments etc. please send an eMail to gdesklets AT public-files DOT de .
Last update: 12-Feb-2012. 197 Desklets (including "stand-alone" Sensors and Controls) in 376 files (4 translated).
Icons
This icon indicates that the desklet has been proved to be working with the latest gDesklets version (0.35.4)!
This means that the desklet is at least starting without errors. Not every functionality has been tested though!
When put in parentheses (
) some minor errors occur and/or not all displays in the archive are working, but basically it is working.
This icon indicates that the desklet has been proved to be (more or less) working on OpenSolaris (gDesklets version 0.35.4)!
This icon indicates that the desklet has been proved to be not working with the latest gDesklets version (0.35.4)!
This icons indicates that the archive has been taken from the gdesklets-data_0.35.4.orig.tar.gz from Debian, FreeBSD Ports or linspire and re-packed. So there is a great chance that it differs in name and contents from the original archives!
This icon indicates that the archive contains at least one sensor. Sensors are deprecated since gDesklets 0.30 and will be no more supported with gDesklets 0.40. Furthermore the chances are very high that this desklet will not work with the latests gDesklets version!
News
18-Aug-2015: The site has moved to a new server.
12-Feb-2012: 1 new Desklet.
11-Feb-2012: 2 new Desklets.
21-Sep-2010: 3 new Desklet.
28-Feb-2010: 1 new Desklet.
30-Dec-2009: 3 new Desklets.
11-Dec-2009: 3 new Desklets and Controls.
09-Jul-2009: 6 new Desklets.
03-May-2009: 3 new Desklets and Controls.
04-Apr-2009: 4 new Desklets and Controls.
05-Mar-2009: 6 new Desklets and Controls.
25-Feb-2009: Moved to archive.gdesklets.info.
27-Jan-2009: 3 new Desklets.
26-Sep-2008: 3 new Desklets and Controls.
21-Jul-2008: 7 new Desklets and Controls. Small fixes to the new layout.
16-Jul-2008: The site's layout has been updated.
15 pieces puzzle
15 pieces (also known as 16 pieces) is a puzzle game where you have to arrange pieces in order from 1-15 counting from top left corner to bottom right corner or piece together some image.
ACPI Desklet
This is a small ACPI sensor along with an example display for gDesklets. You need the program 'acpi' and ACPI support in your kernel to use it.
ACPI Sensor
AlfaOs
Transparent buttons to operate Rhythmbox by remote control.
AlfaOs Energy
A battery monitor with AlfaOs style.
AudioPlayer Control
Plays sounds and music through the Gstreamer multimedia system. Supports all the formats that Gstreamer supports, including ogg vorbis, mp3, wav, etc.
Baskerville
A search tool that does Beagle queries.
Battery desklet
Battery desklet for gDesklets.
Beagle Control
A control that enables doing Beagle queries and getting the results. In addition to gDesklets requires python bindings for Beagle and a running instance of Beagle.
Bear
BearCam Desklet.
Bible desklet
Bible verse of the day, in configurable versions.
Binary Clock
A clock, showing the time in binary.
BMPx desklet
Bottom Right corner BMPx controller. This display was originally developed by Stefano Mozzi, was maintained by Cslug (Italy), and was ported to BMPx by Milosz Derezynski.
Boxmail
An unix mailbox checker in SideCandy style.
Brian Jensen Control
This control is used for parsing signal strength and essid from iwconfig
BSRDG border
Displays a nice, very customizable border.
Bubble Fishy Mon
A load monitor desklet inspired by the BubbleFishyMon dockapp. The fish represent network traffic, the bubbles represent CPU usage, water level represents memory usage, and a duck representing a duck.
BugZilla
Calendar
A navigable calendar showing the entire month.
CandyBar
An OSX-like Taskbar.
Circle Button bar
CircleMeter
CircleMeter just creates an SVG canvas that then gets updated to show the current CPU consumption in a nice circular and highly configurable style. In the upcoming versions, this display should be able to display several different types of system information.
Citation
Display a quote in french
Clipboard Control
The Clipboard Control provides an easy way to use the (gtk) Clipboard from within Desklets.
Clock desklet
A scalable and configurable clock for your desktop.
Updated versions:
New Clock.
Clock2 desklet
ClockNTimer
A simple clock and timer gDesklet capable of displaying large watermark, clock and timer on the screen.
Clock with chime
Desktop clock with chime.
Corner XMMS
Bottom Right corner XMMS controller. This display was originally developed by Stefano Mozzi. Now it is maintained by Cslug (Italy).
Countdown
Simple countdown timer.
Countdown2
Simple countdown timer.
Countdown2 Control
A simple countdown timer control.
CPU Temp
Adds I2C support to Psi's CPUTemp desklet.
CrispClock
A simple, clean and crisp digital time representation.
DailyToon
This desklet can fetch a cartoon off the internet and embed it in your desktop.
Desk Quote Sensor
This is DeskQuotes, a sensor to return random quotes from a file to a gdesklets display on your desktop. It will return quotes from any properly formatted file (similar to fortune files).
Desklet Control
The desklet control provides the next-gen desklet and control installation interface. Through this control desklets may act as frontends to the whole gDesklets system.
The control fetches a list of available desklets and controls through the HTTP-protocol and makes a list of local desklets. The lists are compared and upgradeable ones are marked. Fetching and installing desklets and controls is also supported, so basically the user needs no www-browser or other external applications to install desklets and controls.
Deskletradar
Using the Radar control, this display presents a single widow which can display the local, regional or national radar. If you have imagemagick installed, clicking on the radar will bring up a full size animation of the radar.
Desklets Desklet
A desklet that a bit mimics the outlook of the Dashboard Widgets Widget. Uses the Desklet-control and provides all the features that the control currently provides.
Dino Cam
A stupid desklet showing the famous volcanologic DinoCam.
DiskIO
Themable disk io display (needs Theme and FontSelector sensors).
DiskIO Control
The DiskIO Control provides access to disc I/O activities and statistics.
DiskMount
A desklet for mounting disks.
Display Constraints Sensor
Small sensor to set a display to fixed bounds. Example .display is included.
Easy Note
Show note (notepaper) on desktop and let you write simple note.
Ebay desklet
Desklet to monitor a given ebay search.
eBayScraper Control
Extracts title, price and remaining time of an eBay auction, given item number.
Ebichu Clock
A simple clock with Ebichu in it.
Eject
Eject your CDs or DVDs.
Energy desklet
A simple battery monitor.
Ephemeride
A simple calendar with i18n support. Because ICalendar worths it.
External Interval Sensor
This sensor is similar to the 'External' sensor but allows the user to choose the update frequency thanks to the configurator.
Extern IP
This is a seti_at_home Desklet.
(Actually this is a Desklet which shows your external IP number.)
FileFilter Control
Extracts all files with specified suffix(ces) from a list of files/folders.
FileToList Control
Writes a list to a local file; reads a local file to a list, splitting at linebreaks.
Written because of the lack of a list type in preference system.
FlickrFrame
Flickr Uploadr - Viewer.
Flip Clock
A simple flip clock in different sizes.
Fortune
Desklet that displays random fortune, requires fortune package and Fortune Control. Based on Quote of The Day.
Fortune Control
It's an interface needed to access adages from fortune files.
FTB
FTB DiskIO
A disk I/O monitor.
Gauges desklet
Gauge-DiskIO
Gauge-DiskIO provides a display for gDesklets in Gauge style to display Disk I/O activity.
Gauge-IB-21E
Gauge-IB-21E provides a display for gDesklets in Gauge style to display basic data retrieved from an IB-21E interface via the http status page like toner level, total page count and the printer LCD. It uses the GetHTML Control to retrieve the data.
Genesis
The bar from which everything starts.
GetHTML Control
Fetches HTML-pages and constructs a DOM of sorts. Makes it easier to quickly build desklets that fetch data from the web even if there is no official(SOAP, XML-RPC) method of fetching data. For an example of a working desklet see the "UrbanExplainer" which takes it's information from the UrbanDictionary.
Of course the desklets are vulnerable to changing webpages because this also changes the DOM, but usually this is not a real threat on stable pages.
gFortunka
A simple desklet that displays an adage on your desktop. It requires fortune package.
Gleo
A desklet to lookup words in the dict.leo.org online dictionary.
GnomeBar
A Replacement for the Gnome Panels.
GoodTime Sensor
GoodWeather
Themable weather condition and forecast display (needs FontSelector).
GoodWeather 08
Themeable weather and condition display by Konrad Rieck.
With changes to the sensors script in regards to make it work as of today (05/12/08) with weather.com
GoodWeatherCanada
This is a hacked version of the GoodWeather gdesklet. This version pulls information from the Environment Canada servers (way more accurate than weather.com). It also includes detailed forecast info when you put the mouse over the forecast. See the README in the Displays directory for more info.
Googled
Search google.
GW Countdown
Countdown until Bush is out of office.
HDD-Temp
Hottie
Displays an image of a hottie that changes every hour.
Hypertail
A fast and comprehensive log file tailer.
iCalendarEvent Control
Provides an interface for events stored in iCalendar (RFC 2445) files. Requires the 'icalendar' python package (http://codespeak.net/icalendar/) and operates best with the gamin python bindings.
IExec Control
Allows execution of external applications.
Image
This is where you can store your girlfriends image.
ImageProperties Control
Gives x and y dimensions and format of an image.
ImageSlideShow Control
Provides functions to control an image slideshow and read select image meta-data.
* Requires that you have the Python Imaging Library for JPEG Comment extraction.
IMAP Mail
Imonc
FLI4L-Imonc Desklets.
Info
Infocon
The Infocon desklet shows the latest infocon status picture by isc.sans.org.
Infodomestics Bar
The GNOME Tasklist and Pager in a Desklet.
IRC
An IRC display and sensor for gdesklets.
iWeather
Juju Countdown
This desklet allows to countdown the remaining time until a configurable date. It then displays a victorious 'Hurrah!', or whatever you set.
Just an Icon
A simple desktop launcher.
LinuxTag desklet
These are the displays that were made for the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe.
List
A simple todo list.
LM_Sensors
Displays Lm_sensors information about temperatures, voltages and fan speeds.
LT Collection
The LT desklets are known to be not working with newer gDesklets versions!
Mini Mail
A mini mailclient.
- (
) minimailv01.tar.gz (38384 bytes) (The included Control needs to be installed by hand and the Control-ID needs to be changed in the display file to make it work.)
ML Donkey
Mldonkey info (needs the Mldonkey,FontSelector,Themes sensors).
ML Net
A mlnet display in SideCandy style. Based on the mldonkey desklet writted by stomby. Needs mlnet version 2.7.3 or greater.
Modified XMMS
Moon Clock
A desklet displaying the current state of the moon.
Mouse Control
Retrieves the position of the cursor within the desklet.
MultiMixer Sensor
MultiTail
mYTraffic
Traffic Monitor using Yahoo Traffic.
Network Info
New Clock
New version of 'clock' by georw.
Older versions:
Clock desklet.
NewsGrab
RSS reader originally created by Peter Quinn.
NewsGrab Control
Grab newsItem form RSS by Peter Quinn.
NewsTicker
A news ticker similar to those on the TV news networks.
ntp Control
This control fetches the accurate time by contacting the Network Time Protocol server at redhat (0.fedora.pool.ntp.org).
NVIDIA Info
A news ticker similar to those on the TV news networks.
OSX Corner XMMS
Bottom Right corner XMMS controller. This display was originally developed by Stefano Mozzi. Now it is maintained by Cslug (Italy).
Other desklets
Your Personal Desktop Cow (only works on Debian).
Page Scraper
Searches a webpage for instances of a regular expression. Can display the expressions found (eg. screenshot shows headlines from guardian.co.uk) and/or 'found' and 'not found' images or messages.
Page Scraper Control
Extracts instances of a regular expression from a webpage.
PaperCal
A simple calander for your desktop.
Picture Frame
Desklet which extracts all images from a group of files dragged onto it, and cycles through them. Has options to open image and open folder, and a few frame styles.
Praytime desklet
Prayertime desklet for gdesklets. Praytime sensor and 2 displays are included -
1. the first is prayboard, which shows all the prayers
2. the second is praytime, which shows the next prayer info only
Population Clock
A world population clock.
PSI Collection
The PSI desklets are known to be not working with newer gDesklets versions!
Quote of the Day
Simple desklet that displays quote for each day.
Radar Control
This control provides three different radar views(local, regional, and national). It captures still images and rotates them on the screen making an apparent radar. The storage directory, URLs and length of radar loop are all configurable. With imagemagick installed, it will also create a full size radar image when the deskletradar window is clicked.
RecentlyUsed
A toolbar for the most recently used items from ~/.recently-used.
Redundant Clock
The redundant clock is redundant.
RegExp Control
Regular expression control.
Reloj
A clock desklet based on the MacSlow's cairo-clock appearance.
RhythmBox
A Rhythmbox controller with cover art, based on the SideCandy Rhythmbox controller.
RhythmLet
Rhythmbox desklet with cover art and playback controls.
RSS
RSS Control
Provides properties to read RSS-feeds.
RSS Grab
Rss aggregators for gdesklets.
RSS SlideShow
Give this program a RSS feed of images, and it will rotate through the images.
RSS Ticker
A news ticker similar to those on the TV news networks.
RSSboy
A simple RSS-reader originally inspired by the game "Paperboy". Features a simple preview that is triggered when the mouse cursor is moved over a topic.
SETI
SETI2
ShadowImage
This desklet displays a custom scrollable collection of images (with drop shadow) anywhere on the desktop. Drop an image onto the desklet to add an image to the queue. Right clicking on the desklet presents you with three additional options. Remove image (from the queue), Next image & Previous image.
A mouse scroll wheel can be used to cycle through the images in the queue.
SideCandy
This is not only a collection of several desklets for your desktop; SideCandy also is a TEMPLATE for creating new desklets in that cute SideCandy style.
SideCandy Battery
Side Candy Battery Display.
SideCandy DiskInfo
A SideCandy-style disk info monitor.
SideCandy DiskIO
SideCandy-DiskIO provides a display for gDesklets in SideCandy style to display Disk I/O activity.
SideCandy Gmail
Gdesklets display and control to check your gmail account in the SideCandy style
SideCandy HDD
SideCandy HardDisk Space Monitor.
SideCandy HDD-Temp
SideCandy-HDDTemp provides displays in SideCandy style to retrieve and display data from a hddtemp daemon.
SideCandy Imonc
An FLI4L-Imonc Desklet in SideCandy Style.
SideCandy Mount
Side Candy Mount Display.
SideCandy MPC
SideCandy MPD client.
SideCandy POPMail
Gdesklets display and control to check your pop3 account in the SideCandy style.
SideCandy PrintQueue
Side Candy Print Queue Display.
SideCandy RAM
A RAM/SWAP monitor in SideCandy style.
SideCandy RhythmBox
A Rhythmbox controller in SideCandy style.
SideCandy RSS
Checks an RSS feed - SideCandy style.
SideCandy SpeedportW501V
SideCandy-SpeedportW501V provides a display in SideCandy style to retrieve and display data from a Speedport W501V router.
SideCandy Sunbird
Side Candy Sunbird Events Display.
SideCandy Sytadin
Paris/Ile de France traffic information in SideCandy style.
SideCandy Title
SideCandy-Title provides a display for gDesklets in SideCandy style to display a simple title.
SideCandy Uptime
SideCandy-Uptime provides a display for gDesklets in SideCandy style to display uptime and/or uprecords (since v0.2) data.
SideCandy Users
Side Candy Users Display.
SideCandy Weather
Desklet displaying the current weather conditions in SidyCandy style.
SideCandy Wireless
A wireless network monitor in SideCandy style.
SideStripes
Simple RSS
Based on the scripts from the desklet "RSSBoy", but very simplifed. There is one message displayed and a ticker (in seconds) switches to the next message.
SlideShow
Cycle through a collection of pictures. Will display image captions (IPTC,Jpeg Comment, EXIF) if available
SOAP Control
The SOAP control provides support for SOAP based queries.
It uses the SOAPpy (which is these days already deprecated, but works).
You can install SOAPpy through your package management system (on ubuntu the package is called python-soappy) or look for it from http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/
StarterBar
The 'StarterBar' is a panel for GNOME where you can put starters into. Your GNOME menu contains lots of starters.
Sticky Notes
Sticky notes on your desktop.
StockInfo
Styx
Sudoko
A sudoku desklet.
Sys Info
A system information desklets which shows various interesting data.
Sytadin
Tasklist desklet
This is a simple display that embeds the GNOME tasklist via Bonobo. It floats on top of the other windows.
Temperature desklet
Grabs and displays the temperature evolution for the past 24h.
The Simpsons Quote
A silly Quote retriever from thesimpsonsquote.com enjoy!.
TheHillCam
TheHillCam shows the latest Hill Cam picture of Ottawa's Parliament Hill.
Thumbnail Generator
Extracts all images from a group of files dropped on the desklet, and generates thumbnails. Specify either an absolute path or a path relative to the original image(s) to the thumbnail folder(s). Options for filename prefix, dimensions and format.
Thumbnail Generator Control
Generates and saves thumbnail of an image.
Tux Clocks
upHosts
Uses fping to check if predefined hosts are responding.
UrbanExplainer
Fetches explanations to words from UrbanDictionary.com and displays them.
VerticalCandy
An template insipred by the wonderful SideCandy template, but moving up and down instead of left and right. It works very similar to the SideCandy template, but look at the samples.
Voo2do Control
Interfaces with the voo2do web-based task list.
Weather desklet
Weather desklet for gDesklets.
Weekly Calendar
A calendar capable of displaying your tasks for the week. Optional support for voo2do.
Wireless desklet Sensor
Wireless display
Wireless Monitor
Monitor Wireless Network Strength.
WorldClock / WorldTime
A simple worldtime banner for your desktop with up to 6 locations!.
Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor
The Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is the most comprehensive Wi-Fi gadget available. Use it to search for Wi-Fi networks, verify Wi-Fi coverage, educate yourself about Wi-Fi, and more!
The gadget uses a radar-like display to show available Wi-Fi networks and their range. The main gadget face provides details on your connection and adapter, including SSID, channel, signal strength, and IP/MAC addresses. A fly out window provides details on Wi-Fi networks, including security settings, signal strength, channels, and network types. Statistical counters are also provided. Supports multiple Wi-Fi adapters.
Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Controller
This controller provides all the necesary information for the Xirrus desklet display to use.
The controller performs threaded wi-fi scanning and can rum applications in super-user mode.
XML Quotes
XML TV
Displays the tv-program read from a xmltv database.
XMMS desklet
XMMS2 Control
This control provides communication with a running xmms2 daemon.
XMMS2 example desklet
This is just a veeeeery simple but nice example display for the XMMS2 gDesklets-Control. You can use it as a beginning to write your own xmms2 daemon controlling desklet
Latest additions
12-Feb-2012
11-Feb-2012
- CircleMeter : 0.2
- iCalendarEvent Control: 0.5
21-Sep-2010
- CrispClock : 0.01, 0.011
- Redundant Clock : 0.10
28-Feb-2010
30-Dec-2009
- 15 pieces puzzle: 0.7
- Calendar: 0.74
- SideCandy DiskIO: 0.2
11-Dec-2009
- ClockNTimer: 0.1
- iCalendarEvent Control: 0.4
- WeeklyCalendar: 0.60
09-Jul-2009
- 15 pieces puzzle: 0.6
- Calendar: 0.72
- DailyToon: 0.2
- GoodWeatherCanada: 0.1, 0.11
- WeeklyCalendar: 0.50
03-May-2009
- Calendar: 0.66
- DailyToon: 0.1
- iCalendarEvent Control: 0.3
04-Apr-2009
- Citation: 1.4, 1.5
- Flip Clock: 0.1
- iCalendarEvent Control: 0.2
05-Mar-2009
- Calendar: 0.65
- Citation: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
- iCalendarEvent Control: 0.1
27-Jan-2009
- Calendar: 0.63.1, 0.64
- Quote of the Day: 1.2
26-Sep-2008
- Infocon: 0.2
- Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor: 1.0
- Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Controller: 1.0
21-Jul-2008
- Calendar: 0.63
- Fortune: 0.1
- GoodWeather 08: 0.3, 0.31
- GW Countdown: 0.1
- SideCandy Wireless: 0.24
- SOAP Control: 0.1
01-Jul-2008
- Battery desklet: 0.2
- Clock desklet: 0.40
- MultiMixer Sensor: 0.1
- PaperCal: 0.1
- PSI-DualBattery: 0.1
- PSI-SETI: 0.2
- SideCandy POPMail: 0.3
- Stick Notes: 0.15
- SysInfo: 0.26
09-Jun-2008
- SideCandy Uptime: 0.2.1
- TheHillCam: 0.3
08-Apr-2008
24-Mar-2008
- Calendar: 0.2.5
- SideCandy Sunbird: 0.1
- TheHillCam: 0.2
- Russian versions: Calendar 0.15, Clock desklet 0.50, SideCandy Mount 0.5, SideCandy RAM 0.3.1
06-Mar-2008
- Gauge-IB-21E: 0.1
- IRC: 1.2
- Juju Countdown: 0.8
- RecentlyUsed: 0.6
- StarterBar: 0.31.2
26-Feb-2008
- 15 pieces puzzle: 0.5
- GetHTML Control: 0.9
10-Feb-2008
- 15 pieces puzzle: 0.3, 0.4
- Desklets Desklet: 0.1
- Infocon: 0.1
- New Clock: 0.52, 0.52b
Special thanks
- 'antispin' for the first Webspace.
- Raghu for the GoodWeather desklet.
- 'monkey_hou' for the OpenSolaris support.
- Jochen Kmietsch for the iWeather desklet.
- 'jan_l' for the EasyNote desklet.
- Roy Spliet for the SideCandy POPMail 0.3 desklet.
- ByetHost.com for the former webspace.
- H2R for the current webspace.