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deshmukh
Asked: 2012-12-03 07:27:56 +0800 CST

Keylock indicator for Xfce panel

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Is there a keylock indicator applet for Xfce panel (preferably native to Xfce)?

I have almost switched to Xfce, except for this!

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2 Answers

  1. The keylock indicator plugin for Xfce4 "shows the state of your keyboard LEDs: Caps, Scroll and Num Lock in Xfce panel."

    Installation instructions for Xfce4 keylock indicator plugin:

    (Note: This works on Xfce versions 4.6 and 4.8. Xfce 4.10 uses a different version of the libxfce4ui widget library and I haven't tested this plugin with 4.10).

    EDIT: Tested and it works fine till Xfce versions 4.12.

    • Download the files from here.

    • Move to your download directory and unpack the files by running the following command:

      • sudo tar -jxf xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.0.6.tar.bz2

    • Next, change to the directory xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.0.6 and run these commands:

      ./configure --prefix=/usr
 make 
sudo make install

    • Finally, add the plugin to your panel.

      -- The Add New Items dialogue can be opened by right clicking on an empty space on the panel and selecting Add New Items. If you right click on a space occupied by a panel plugin, you can access Add New Items by going to Panel → Add New Items.

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  2. The instructions of @Kevin-Bowen did not work as is for me. This had to do with sudo. I adapted his instructions and turned it into a script to simplify the installation of the plugin. I have run the script under Ubuntu and Manjaro using Xcfe version 4.14.

    The Xcfe keylock indicator plugin shows the state of the keyboard LEDs: Caps, Scroll and Num Lock in the Xfce panel.

    Check here for the latest version and update the PLUGIN_VERSION in the script if necessary.

    You can place the below code in a file or just copy & paste it into a terminal. I hope it helps someone.

    #!/bin/bash

# Setup variables
PLUGIN_VERSION=0.0.6
PLUGIN_NAME=xfce4-kbdleds-plugin
PLUGIN_ARCH=${PLUGIN_NAME}-${PLUGIN_VERSION}.tar.gz

# Create a temporary directory under /tmp
TMP_DIR=`mktemp -d`

echo "Install Xcfe keylock indicator plugin [PLUGIN_ARCH=${PLUGIN_ARCH}, TMP_DIR=${TMP_DIR}]"

# Download the latest version
wget -P ${TMP_DIR} https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/archive/${PLUGIN_ARCH}

# Unpack the archive
cd ${TMP_DIR}
mkdir ${PLUGIN_NAME}
tar -xvzf ${PLUGIN_ARCH} -C ${PLUGIN_NAME} --strip-components 1
cd ${PLUGIN_NAME}

# Build and install
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

# Delete the temporary directory
cd ~
rm -rf ${WORK_DIR}

    After running the code don't forget to enable the plugin:

    1. Right click the Xcfe panel you want to place the plugin on
    2. From the menu select Panel > + Add New Items...
    3. From the dialog select Kdbleds Plugin and click the + Add button
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