xfce4-kbdleds-plugin

GridCube · 2011-11-19 20:11:33

Hello, oco, Im a contributor to Xubuntu, mainly on bug testing, reporting and user support, lately some people have come asking for a keyboard led indicator and I found your plugin, it works as intended so I'm promoting it to be included on the next release of Xubuntu, Precise Pangolin, which will be an LTS release, however, because of this fact of being an LTS release, your plugin is being evaluated by the fact, and i quote, that " it's a big mess inside =]".

So I feel its my obligation to ask if you would please clean the code a bit so it might be considered for inclusion?

Sorry for the inconvenience i might cause to you, but i feel this is a rather important add-on for non-led-keyboard users.

Thank you very much.

oco · 2011-12-11 22:41:45

Hello!
I have already cleaned up the plugin several weeks ago, but I can do some more cleaning if you wish. Show me, where messy things are?

StephenH · 2012-03-24 00:56:53

It has been a while since I checked. Has there been any progress toward making this available as a plug-in for 32 and for 64 bit systems that can be installed through a system's package manager (yum in my case)? Having to download not only a source file but also all of the development parts needed to compile it means that it probably is not accesible to many who might otherwise use this plug-in. The http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- … eds-plugin page does not indicate any changes in status beyond last October.

Thanks.

Last edited by StephenH (2012-03-24 00:57:31)

oco · 2012-03-24 08:26:12

Yes, there were no changes since last year.

loux · 2012-09-12 10:07:17

Hello,
Using daily a netbook (adding or not external keyboard), this plugin would be very usefull to me. My system is Xubuntu 12.04 (i'm just an advanced user, not a programmer).
The installation worked after adding some -dev packages, but the applet doesn't appear in the panel plugin list (using the graphical interface). I tried to add the plugin via xfce4-settings-editor as so:
xfce-panel>plugins>plugin-50 type=string value=kbdleds
...but nothing changed.
how can i find and add it to my panel?

oco · 2012-09-12 21:16:23

loux wrote:

Hello,
Using daily a netbook (adding or not external keyboard), this plugin would be very usefull to me. My system is Xubuntu 12.04 (i'm just an advanced user, not a programmer).
The installation worked after adding some -dev packages, but the applet doesn't appear in the panel plugin list (using the graphical interface). I tried to add the plugin via xfce4-settings-editor as so:
xfce-panel>plugins>plugin-50 type=string value=kbdleds
...but nothing changed.
how can i find and add it to my panel?

You must use

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

I have Xubuntu 12.04 too, recompiled plugin from scratch and it works!

Last edited by oco (2012-09-12 21:17:55)

loux · 2012-09-19 14:14:27

all wright, it works.
thanks very much !

weronika · 2012-11-06 05:15:05

I'm having trouble installing kbdleds...

Running "sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr" exits with the following:

checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.20.0... not found
*** The required package gtk+-2.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install gtk+-2.0 (atleast version 2.20.0) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.

I'm pretty sure I do have gtk+-2.0 version - Synaptic shows that package gtk2-engines is installed, version 1:2.20.2-1ubuntu1, whatever exactly that means. Or is there some other package I should install? $PKG_CONFIG_PATH is empty.

weronika · 2012-11-06 06:24:30

Update: the problem seems to have been solved by installing xfce-panel-dev and libxfce4ui-1-dev (they're not what ./configure was asking for, but I found them mentioned on another thread and gave it a try). Works now, very useful little plugin! (Things like color/font/etc configuration would be nice, but probably too much to ask)

oco · 2012-11-07 22:46:57

weronika wrote:

Things like color/font/etc configuration would be nice, but probably too much to ask

I'm not familiar with creating GTK+ dialogs, maybe someone could help me!

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