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brianhsu

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Registered: 2015-06-26

Posts: 2

xfce4-hotcorner-plugin 0.0.1 released

xfce4-hotcorner-plugin 0.0.1 is now available for download from

  https://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotco … 0.1.tar.gz

What is xfce4-hotcorner-plugin?
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xfce4-hotcorner-plugin is a simple panel plugin, provide an easy way to set
hot corners on XFCE4 desktop environment.

Currently it supports the following operation on primary display:

- xfdashboard
- toggle desktop
- start screensaver
- turn off monitor
- run custom command

It's still in early development, but should be usable.

Website:

  https://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin

Release notes 0.0.1
=======================

This is initial release of xfce4-hotcorner-plugin.

Since I'm not really familiar with XFCE development toolchain and packaging
for Linux distros, it would be appreciated if someone could help me package
this plugin to software repository on Linux distributions, and let end users
install this plugin easily.

Last edited by brianhsu (2015-06-26 09:31:34)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: xfce4-hotcorner-plugin 0.0.1 released

Always nice when someone creates something new for Xfce. I cloned the repository and built the plugin. Its working nicely.

One comment: I had to use:

git clone git://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin.git

...to be able to clone the repository. The command you have listed didn't work for me.

Since I'm not really familiar with XFCE development toolchain and packaging
for Linux distros, it would be appreciated if someone could help me package
this plugin to software repository on Linux distributions, and let end users
install this plugin easily

I would suggest that you contact the Xfce developers through the xfce4-dev mailing list about this new plugin and ask how it can be added to the official Xfce git repositories.

Thanks again for contributing.

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Rayonant

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Registered: 2013-01-10

Posts: 49

Re: xfce4-hotcorner-plugin 0.0.1 released

First of all, thank you for contributing to Xfce, I've been using the plugin and so far the functionality is great. However I got a spacing problem when I add it to the panel, let me try to explain it with images:

But when I click on properties it gets fixed temporarily, although sometimes after closing the dialog the problem returns:
Edit: Actually it does not have to do with that, but with how many buttons for active windows do I have on the panel, if the are enough they  make it move to the right, but if not, then what happens is what is shown in th first picture.

Do you know what could be the cause? I'll be glad to help by providing any additional data/log that you require in order to troubleshoot this . I am using it under Xfce 4.12, I cloned the repository and compile it normally, after that I installed system wide with:

sudo make install

Last edited by Rayonant (2015-06-29 06:37:29)

brianhsu

Member

Registered: 2015-06-26

Posts: 2

Re: xfce4-hotcorner-plugin 0.0.1 released

First of all, thank you for contributing to Xfce, I've been using the plugin and so far the functionality is great. However I got a spacing problem when I add it to the panel, let me try to explain it with images:
http://s12.postimg.org/ywgzf9dsd/Captura_de_pantalla_2015_06_28_23_00_30.png
But when I click on properties it gets fixed temporarily, although sometimes after closing the dialog the problem returns:
Edit: Actually it does not have to do with that, but with how many buttons for active windows do I have on the panel, if the are enough they  make it move to the right, but if not, then what happens is what is shown in th first picture.
http://s12.postimg.org/rhrnmvrwt/Captura_de_pantalla_2015_06_28_23_00_49.png

Do you know what could be the cause? I'll be glad to help by providing any additional data/log that you require in order to troubleshoot this . I am using it under Xfce 4.12, I cloned the repository and compile it normally, after that I installed system wide with:

sudo make install

There is a bug that make the icon expand on panel, it should be fixed in latest code. Would you mind try to clone the latest code from GitHub and try again to see if this problem is fixed?

Rayonant

Member

Registered: 2013-01-10

Posts: 49

Re: xfce4-hotcorner-plugin 0.0.1 released

Yes I've compiled the latest code the problem is fixed now. Thanks for your quick response!