Getting Started
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[edit] Installing Gimmie
[edit] Ubuntu
- Inofficial: Gutsy 0.2.8 available here at GetDeb.net
- Unofficial Repo by Algatux: Gutsy 0.2.8 - Gutsy Repo
- Hardy: 0.2.8 Available in universe
- Gutsy: 0.2.7 Available in universe
- Feisty: 0.2.4 Available in universe
[edit] Fedora
- Fedora 6: Available in extras
- Fedora 7: Available generally
- Fedora 8: Available generally. sudo yum install gimmie
- Fedora 9: Available generally. sudo yum install gimmie
[edit] FreeBSD
- Available in ports in /deskutils/gimmie/
[edit] Gentoo
- Available at BreakMyGentoo.org in the /Gnome-extra/gimmie folder
[edit] Arch
- Available in community
[edit] openSUSE
- openSUSE 10.3: Available in the GNOME:Community repository
- openSUSE 10.2: Available in the GNOME:Community repository
- openSUSE Factory: Available in the GNOME:Community repository
[edit] Debian
- Available in Sid/Lenny [PTS]
[edit] Building From Source
- wget http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/releases/gimmie-0.2.8.tar.gz
- tar -zxvf gimmie-0.2.8.tar.gz
- cd ./gimmie-0.2.8
- ./configure
- make
- sudo make install
[edit] Some more information for getting started
Getting Gimmie running can be a bit confusing for the first-time user. The reason is that there are actually three different ways to run Gimmie after it is installed. Each method essentially starts up a different version of Gimmie with different behaviors and uses.
[edit] Gimmie as a standalone dock
Gimmie can also be run in standalone mode, which places a dock at the bottom of your screen. The dock has options for launching applications, opening documents, and all the other stuff that the applet does. In addition, it displays icons for running applications, open documents, and buddies that you are currently chatting with. This mode is meant as an alternative to the task bar in the panel.
It should be noted that standalone is sort of an experimental mode. Most of the focus of Gimmie's development has been on the applet mode. And Alex says that standalone mode is essentially deprecated; so there may not be any future development on this mode.
That aside, fans of standalone mode have found that it works quite well and provides some nice features.
To run Gimmie in standalone mode once it is installed, open a terminal or press Alt+F2 to get the run dialog and run the command, "gimmie" (without the quotes).
[edit] Gimmie with Avant Window Navigator
The final mode for running Gimmie is as an applet in a third-party application called Avant Window Navigator (AWN). This mode is a lot like the applet mode described above, except that this version of the applet sits in the AWN dock instead of the panel.
In this screenshot, the Gimmie applet is made up of the four icons on the left.
AWN provides a dock that displays icons for open windows, much like Gimmie in standalone mode. And AWN's dock has a bunch of people actively working on it; so it is likely to be more stable and feature-rich than the standalone mode for Gimmie.
Information about AWN can be found here at the AWN home page.
One catch is that support for an AWN applet is new. It is so new that it was not included in the last stable release of Gimmie. So if you want to use this mode, you will have to install the latest development version of Gimmie. You can find information about how to do that here:
