Pilot applet for XFCE?

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 13:53, Tom Wesley wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 21:38, Jack Coates wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:27, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:18, Tobias Kretschmer wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:04:03 +0000
> > > > Tom Wesley <tawesley at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have just started looking around at XFCE and like it so far, but
> > > > > cannot find a way to make my Palm sync - is there some way that I
> > > > > can force gnome-pilot to work with XFCE, or maybe some other
> > > > > solution that works well?
> > > > 
> > > > I had problems running gnome-pilot, too.
> > > > First you should check your pilot-link package. There is an app
> > > > called J-Pilot (http://www.jpilot.org) that's working prettty well.
> > > > It's not an XFCE-App in it self, so this might be getting OT.
> > > > 
> > > > Tobias
> > > 
> > > Yeah I've used jpilot years back, but was hoping there was some way to
> > > add a panel applet or something similar so that it can be as 'desktop
> > > integrated' as possible (as in KDE and Gnome... ;)
> > 
> > gpilotd will run just fine, put it in your startup scripts. Set up
> > synchronization conduits with Evolution, and it's as integrated as it's
> > gonna get. Heck, XFce even has a systray plugin if you want to have a
> > little yin-yang doohickey wasting your desktop real estate.
> > 
> 
> How do you get the ying-yang in the tray, my systray seems a little
> dis-functional...

I actually don't know if it will work as I gave up on PDAs about a year
ago. But it's supposed to work. IIRC the gpilotd will show a systray
icon if a systray is around to do so in.

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