gkrellm -> kde dock application bar?

[Max Bruche]

When I try gkrellm -w, no part of gkrellm goes into the bar at all. 
Maybe I am doing something wrong.

In any case, I guess this is broken, and as you suggest I will look for 
an alternative. It's a shame that this doesn't work.

Andrew Kar wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:21 pm, Max Bruche wrote:
> 
>> It will go next to the xterm that I am using to
>>start it up. ???
> 
> 
> Well forget about using kstart; it is not necessary. The kde dock-panel only 
> works for properly written dock applets such as windowmaker and I believe 
> fvwm as well.
> The problem is that gkrell is a dock bar of sorts in its own right. You can 
> get it to dock quite simply by typing gkrellm -w but you must ensure that the 
> dock option INSIDE gkrells config is NOT ticked.
> Sadly (and it brings tears to my eyes) it will only dock as a single applet; 
> so you will only get the topmost applet of what makes up gkrell but not its 
> frame and the rest of the applets that make up what people see as Gkrell.
>      It would probably not be very hard to write a wrapper that wraps each 
> krell plugin and lets you use it on the kde dock-panel. Meanwhile look around 
> for wm/fvwm applets as there are some pretty cool ones about.
> 

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