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Mark7

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Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 119

Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

Hey ToZ

I installed the hotcorner plugin according to the instructions given, but it isn't showing up in the list of available panel plugins.list.

ToZ: split from https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=10129

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

Which distro?

Can you post back the commands you used and the results of those commands?

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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

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Re: Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

We have a Wiki document that may be of some help:

http://mepiscommunity.org/wiki/other/hotcorner

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Mark7

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Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 119

Re: Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

Opensuse 42

Commands were

git clone git://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin.git
  cd xfce4-hotcorner-plugin
  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .
  make install

Result is

libhotcorner.so and hotcorner.desktop were installed to /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins and /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

Everything looks right.

Does opensuse put its other panel plugins and panel desktop files in the same locations?

You can also try this:
1. Quit the panel:

xfce4-panel -q

2. Start it up in debug mode:

PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel

3. Go to the "Add Items" screen and look at the terminal output. If xfce4-panel can't find the library or something is wrong with it, it will display a message? For example, I deleted the libhotcorner.so file, ran the above commands and got:

xfce4-panel(module-factory): reading /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins

(xfce4-panel:18234): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: Plugin hotcorner: There was no module found at "/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libhotcorner.so"

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Mark7

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Registered: 2007-10-05

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Re: Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

I got this

(xfce4-panel:4920): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: Plugin hotcorner: There was no module found at "/usr/lib64/xfce4/panel-plugins/libhotcorner.so"

And, it's right.  The module isn't there

I'm going to try CPing the plugin from its original place and see what happens

Mark7

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Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 119

Re: Hotcorner Plugin not showing up

It worked

Now I don't have to use the keyboard shortcut

Thanks ToZ