Create my own panel plugin - Xubuntu

xubuntu xfce gtk plugins temperature

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Solution 1

As for creating a new panel plugin for Xfce, see https://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/panel_plugins and https://ecc-comp.blogspot.fi/2015/02/a-simple-tutorial-for-xfce-panel-plugin.html?m=1

Solution 2

I also was looking for a panel plugin that shows the temperature of the CPU in Xubuntu 16.04. By default there is no such plugin installed. I found xfce4-sensors-plugin which was exactly what I was looking for.

I installed it by running the command:

sudo apt-get install xfce4-sensors-plugin

After that I could find Sensor plugin in the dialog to add a panel item.

To get the source code I ran:

sudo apt-get source xfce4-sensors-plugin

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xdola

Updated on September 18, 2022

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xdola over 1 year

I've installed Xubuntu 14.04.

In my panel I can add a lot of plugins. For example that show CPU load and RAM usage... But what about the temperature of each core?

I've found the files that contains the data about the temperature of each core: /sys/bus/platform/devices/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon0 and I want to create my own plugin.

Googling it I've found a tutorial about GTK+: it seems too difficult so I tried to find the source code of an existing panel widget to modify it.

I searched for the System Load Monitor source code, but all I found is this, without any source code.

Where can I download the source code of an existing plugin? There is a easy way to create an Xubuntu panel plugin?

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: What is a panel plugin? These are panel plugins:
- xangua almost 9 years
  
  So you want a plugin or create your own plugin that displays your procesors temperature? Pretty sure psensor displays the temperature.
- JoKeR almost 9 years
  
  did you check this? or it's a different from what you're looking?
- xdola almost 9 years
  
  Yes, but can I leave psensor on the desktop panel, like a plugin and not like a window?
- JoKeR almost 9 years
  
  I see you want to create a kind of a desktop widget?
- JoKeR almost 9 years
  
  well there are panel plugins (indicators) and desktop widgets I prefer to call them so ;)
- JoKeR almost 9 years
  
  I modified one on my own with conky-manager how to configure conky.
- xdola almost 9 years
  
  Let us continue this discussion in chat.
mook765 about 7 years

As we can see in launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-sensors-plugin this package is also available for 14.04.