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Is there any alternative to the Mac OS X dashboard?

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As the title states, does anyone know of a dashboard alternative for Ubuntu? This is useful feature in Mac OS X, middle-clicking on the mouse brings up a customizable page where you can put anything from weather and stock reports to games. Is there any equivilent for this in Ubuntu?

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answered 3 Years ago curatekill · Accepted Answer

The compiz widget layer + screenlets works like this. You can also install or Plasma if you want even more fancy stuff.

You can enable the widget layer in CCSM. (More detail will be added to this answer when I have some more time).

Run: sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager screenlets screenlets-pack-all

Open this and go the widget layer plugin:

Widget Layer options:

Run the screenlets app: alt+f2+screenlets

Set the screenlets options so that they show on the widget layer by default:

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