Invest Applet under 12.04 LTS (Cinnamon Desktop) **Can NOT add to panel**

[Liam Proven]

On 1 January 2013 12:12, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> HAPPY NEW YEAR!
>
> Under 10.04 LTS and earlier I have used the Invest Applet (2.3 under 10.04),
> however, even though it is installed (gnome-applets). I have been unable to
> add it to the panel or use it any other way. It simply does not show up
> under the available items under the drop down add to panel!
>
> What do I need to do to get this going???

You can't put GNOME 2 applets on the Cinnamon panel. Cinnamon is based
on GNOME 3 and GTK3; GNOME 2 was written with GTK2 and thus GNOME 2
applets won't work on GTK3 desktops.

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