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I am running Gnome Shell 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.10.

I have installed Hamster Applet package version 2.32.1-0ubuntu5. There is now a Time Tracker application. Clicking on it does start the application where I can enter data, etc. But there is no indicator either in the top bar or at the bottom notification area. There are no periodical reminders.

Is there something missing? How do I get the features it had with Gnome 2.3

Thanks in advance.

deshmukh
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Use a Shell extension, it can be downloaded through Gnome's official site: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/425/project-hamster-extension/

(Thanks to @tm_lv for heads-up)

EDIT: Installing the extension locally using gnome-tweak-tool apparently crashes Shell. The extension must be installed using waf as described in README, however it's not that easy. You need a few packages to build the extension

sudo apt-get install gettext intltool

Now download the source using git or https://github.com/tbaugis/hamster-shell-extension/downloads

Once you clone/unpack the source, go into the created directory and execute

./waf configure --prefix=/usr
sudo ./waf install

This will install the extension into /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/hamster@gnome.org directory.

The extension will appear in gnome-tweak-tool in Extensions section once you restart Gnome Shell.

To uninstall the extension, execute this from the source directory:

sudo ./waf uninstall

Note that this extension doesn't play well with the older version of Hamster available in Ubuntu repository, more details are in this bug report. You better build the newest version of Hamster yourself, as described on Hamster's site. Remember to uninstall hamster-applet first and install dependencies for "Debian-based" system.

jnv
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