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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 75

genmon plugin - how to left justify output

here are the xml tags i am using in the script genmon is calling

echo -e "<txt>$output\n$output2</txt>"
echo "<tool>"$tooltip"</tool>"

any easy way to get that second line left justified so it lines up with the first line?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,492

Re: genmon plugin - how to left justify output

Text alignment on GtkLabel is not currently supported through CSS properties or Pango Markup by GTK3. It needs to be programmatically managed and genmon doesn't do that.

You could try some shell scripting voodoo to try to right pad the second string, but that will only look good if you use a monospace font.

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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 75

Re: genmon plugin - how to left justify output

ah too bad. thanks for the reply.  i'll have a go at it with that script "voodoo"