Adesklets in Ubuntu, GNOME, eee 1000HA

[arinlares]

I've been trying to get some sort of light-weight eyecandy set up for my netbook by playing with docks, and have had no success, so I have decided to try adesklets. I installed via the terminal (sudo apt-get install adesklets), and it installed. The guide I followed in Ubuntu's community documentation said to install via terminal, add a desklet or two, and go into Startup Applications, and add an application with the command "adesklets --nautilus" for a GNOME system. Which I did, with a desklet installed properly, which I can confirm because a run of adesklets --nautilus in the command line produced the weatherforecast desklet I had installed.

I tried setting up the command in Startup Applications to no avail, and even set up a script to start with the command as follows:

sleep 5
adesklets --nautilus

using a sleep command to delay the startup of adesklets until my internet connected, if it does. This didn't work either. So, could anybody help walk me through this, pointing out anything I did wrong? To recap: I had adesklets installed properly, and the desklet was installed properly, too, but it won't run properly on startup.

[jmadero]

for the script you need to do two things:

should look like this:

#/bin/bash
sleep 5
adesklets --nautilus

and then you need to do

chmod a+x on the file from terminal to make it executable

[arinlares]

Thanks, it worked. I didn't know about "#/bin/bash"