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amxyz

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Registered: 2020-05-23

Posts: 3

Can't load installed plugin in xfce4

Hi,

I'm using gentoo on a Raspi 4 and I installed some plugins which I downloaded from https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start. The plugins were compiled correctly and placed in /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins.

these are the libs of the plugins: libpulseaudio-plugin.la  libpulseaudio-plugin.so  libweather.la  libweather.so

The .desktop-files were placed in this folder: /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins

The file weather.desktop looks like this:
[Xfce Panel]
Type=X-XFCE-PanelPlugin
Name=Weather Update
[...]
Icon=xfce4-weather
X-XFCE-Internal=FALSE
X-XFCE-Module=weather
X-XFCE-API=2.0
X-XFCE-Exec=/usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/

The file pulseaudio.desktop looks like this:
[Xfce Panel]
Type=X-XFCE-PanelPlugin
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PulseAudio Plugin
[...]
Icon=xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
X-XFCE-Module=pulseaudio-plugin
X-XFCE-Internal=FALSE
X-XFCE-API=2.0
X-XFCE-Exec=/usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/

When I rightclick on panel > Panel > Add new items neither the weather plugin nor the pulseaudio plugin appear there. How do I tell xfce4 that I have installed some plugins so that I can add them on the panel?

eriefisher

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Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 929

Re: Can't load installed plugin in xfce4

Have you tried to restart the panel to reread the plugin directory?

xfce4-panel -r

Logging out and back in would likely do it as well.

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amxyz

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Registered: 2020-05-23

Posts: 3

Re: Can't load installed plugin in xfce4

Thanks for your reply. The plugins still don't appear in the list.

Misko_2083

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Registered: 2015-10-13

Posts: 232

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Re: Can't load installed plugin in xfce4

Remove this line in the desktop file

[...]

That  will do.
If not this line is for new API for the Gtk3 plugins:

X-XFCE-API=2.0

1.0 is for gtk2

Is it 64bit gentoo?
If so maybe the libdir is different but I don't know where is it in Gentoo.
Fedora
x32 - /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins
x64 - /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins
Debian
x32 - /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins
x64 - /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins

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amxyz

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Registered: 2020-05-23

Posts: 3

Re: Can't load installed plugin in xfce4

Thanks four your help . It works now. I moved the plugin libraries into the folder for the 64Bit-libraries and did a refresh of the panel:
--> /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins