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d0u9

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Registered: 2016-09-06

Posts: 5

How to change the size of panel plugin.

I write one simple xfce panel plugin for studying plugin development. This test plugin just displays one button widget labelled as "Hello World":

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <libxfce4panel/xfce-panel-plugin.h>

static void system_monitor_construct(XfcePanelPlugin *plugin);
XFCE_PANEL_PLUGIN_REGISTER(system_monitor_construct);


static void hello( GtkWidget *widget,
                   gpointer   data )
{
    g_print ("Hello World\n");
}

static void system_monitor_construct(XfcePanelPlugin *plugin)
{
	GtkWidget *button;

	button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");
	g_signal_connect (button, "clicked", G_CALLBACK (hello), NULL);
	gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (plugin), button);
	gtk_widget_show (button);
}

However, when this plugin is loaded, only part of string "Hello World" is displayed, like this:

How could I enlarge panel plug to display full contents?

Thanks!

Last edited by d0u9 (2016-09-06 16:14:27)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: How to change the size of panel plugin.

Your code seems to work fine here:

What version of Xfce and xfce4-panel are you using?

Try creating a new panel with no items on it other than yours and see if works better (its hard to tell from your image what else is on the panel)?

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d0u9

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Registered: 2016-09-06

Posts: 5

Re: How to change the size of panel plugin.

I build this plugin on xfce4.10, shipped with Debian 8 Jessie.

This is a fresh installed OS, and I do create one empty panel and test this plugin there.

below is full size screen shot:

Your code seems to work fine here:
http://en.zimagez.com/miniature/panel16.png

What version of Xfce and xfce4-panel are you using?

Try creating a new panel with no items on it other than yours and see if works better (its hard to tell from your image what else is on the panel)?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: How to change the size of panel plugin.

Well, I checked Xfce 4.11 and it worked. Then I loaded Debian 8.5 Jessie (Xfce 4.10.1) into a VM and confirmed that I am seeing the same as you. I would guess that there is something in the 4.10 code that prevents (or doesn't support) non-square buttons that was fixed/added in a later release.

You might want to send a note to the xfce4-dev mailing list to see if one of the developers has a better idea of what is happening here.

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