{"id":1341,"date":"2013-08-15T03:13:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T03:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2013-08-15T03:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T03:13:02","slug":"install-folderview-screenlet-ubuntu-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/install-folderview-screenlet-ubuntu-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Install FolderView Screenlet in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to display KDE style folder view widget on your desktop? Well, here I&#8217;ll show you how to do it in Ubuntu Unity and Linux Mint Cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView.jpg\" alt=\"FolderView screenlet in Ubuntu\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FolderView screenlet displays your favorite folder items on your desktop and allows to single click to open files or folders with default program.<\/p>\n<p><b>To install FolderView in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and Elementary OS Luna<\/b>, press <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> to open terminal. When it opens, run command to download the DEB (copy code via Ctrl+C, paste in terminal via Ctrl+Shift+V):<\/p>\n<pre>wget https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~screenlets\/+archive\/ppa\/+files\/folderview-screenlet_0.9.91%2B%2B%2B~precise1_all.deb<\/pre>\n<p>Then install the screenlet as well as screenlets manager indicator via below commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo dpkg -i folderview-screenlet_0.9.91*.deb; sudo apt-get -f install<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView-screenlet-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView-screenlet-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"FolderView screenlet unity\" width=\"393\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView-screenlet-ubuntu.jpg 393w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/FolderView-screenlet-ubuntu-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open FolderView screenlet from Unity Dash. Right-click to get the menu, navigate to Properties -> Options -> Folder and set Folder path to Other and choose your favorite to display on desktop.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to display KDE style folder view widget on your desktop? Well, here I&#8217;ll show you how to do it in Ubuntu Unity and Linux Mint Cinnamon. The FolderView screenlet displays your favorite folder items on your desktop and allows to single click to open files or folders with default program. To install FolderView in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[454,453],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unity","tag-folderview-screenlet","tag-install-folderview-screenlet-in-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}