The screenlets are free software and are released under the GNU General Public License. By downloading the screenlets package on this page you agree with the terms and conditions of this license.
Screenlets core framework
Install latest release for Ubuntu from PPA
- In terminal type
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install screenlets
- Or just add to your software sources
- ppa:screenlets/ppa
- Then reload the repositories and install/update package with the name
- (for assistance see section Adding PPAs at help.ubuntu.com)
Individual Screenlets
Install individual Screenlets safely from PPA
- The general way of installing screenlets from terminal is
- sudo apt-get install <name_of_the_package>
- You can of course use the package manager of your choice to find and install Screenlets. Just be sure that the Screenlets PPA is enabled on your system (see above). There are some naming conventions for Screenlet packages. If you are interested in trying out lot of Screenlets at once you can try
- screenlets-pack-<name_of_the_collection>
- If you are interested in some individual Screenlet, then the pattern for the name of a package is usually
- <name>-screenlet
- You can always install the Screenlets from Gnome-Look or some other source as described in FAQ, but this is not as clean and safe as the PPA.
Additional sources
- Latest development snapshots ppa:screenlets-dev/ppa
- Individual Screenlets from Gnome-look.org
- 3rd party Screenlets on Screenlets.org
