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I'm trying to get the Hamster time tracking Gnome applet working on OS X using seamless mode.

I'm presuming with Gnome I can create a Gnome panel, with just the Hamster time tracker applet in it, taking up minimal screen space on my OS X system. I have a ton of time tracked already that I will import.

So I'm looking for a VM or distro that supports VirtualBox seamless mode, not all distros do!

I have a preference for a Debian based system because as a frequent Ubuntu user, I am used to apt-get all the time.

Because it will be running constantly, it must consume a small amount of RAM and minimal swap. (I need all the RAM I can get.) I have low disk space at times also (Xcode eats so much space, I will have to repartition.) It's always nice to have a small download also.

The more pre-made the setup, the better - so premade VM's are good as well as ISOs.

Know any distros that fit the bill?

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Perhaps try to run hamster natively, instead of virtually. According to projecthamster, "Hamster is written in PyGTK, using SQLite for data storage", and per pygtk.org, "PyGTK applications are truly multiplatform and they're able to run, unmodified, on Linux, Windows, MacOS X and other platforms." razorsql.com says sqlite3 is included in Mac OS X.

Regarding how to start hamster without a button, a guy with a long name writes,

Since hamster applet is nothing but a Python app, you can technically invoke it as a standalone application instead of an applet. Most of the time, the utility must be in your path. You can invoke it as ..."

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  • Thanks, I'd love to but I need the feature that shows the present task as part of a system dock, and also there are several Linux things that my system could use, like Geany and a bunch of awesome scripts that just work on Linux, but would take significant reconfiguration on Mac OS X. Nov 20, 2011 at 19:42
  • Project Hamster presently has Gnome and DBUS dependencies. Feb 13, 2012 at 23:23

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