1 <title>Welcome to adesklets.sf.net
</title>
3 <item title=
"What is adesklets?">
4 <p>adesklets is an interactive Imlib2 console
5 for the X Window System. It provides to scripted languages a clean and
6 simple way to write great looking, mildly interactive desktop integrated
7 graphic applets (aka
"desklets").
</p>
9 <p>Why using adesklets? Look at the
<a
10 href=
"posters.html">promotional posters
</a>.
</p>
13 <p>A short article on adesklets was recently published on
<a
14 href=
"http://linux.com/">linux.com
</a>, a news web site affiliated to the Open
15 Source Technology Group.
<a
16 href=
"http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/1525221">Read it
19 <h2>Getting started
</h2>
21 <p>To use adesklets, you first need to install it. It is now included in
22 the ports collection of many BSDs, and as a native package in many Linux
23 distributions. Alternatively, you can install it from
24 <a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=126227">source
</a>.
27 <p>Then, you need some
<a href=
"desklets.html">desklets
</a>. Unpack them,
28 read their README, and follow the instructions.
</p>
30 <p>If you run into problems, keep in mind you have a
31 <a href=
"doc/en/">fairly complete manual
</a> at your fingertips.
</p>
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