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Creating Panel Plugins

There are several ways to write a panel-plugin for the xfce4-panel.

Examples

C-code Example

Python (PyXfce) Example

# Hello World example
# External libraries
import gtk                                      # use gtk-library
import xfce4.panel                              # to create xfce4 panel plugin

# Button with status icon and menu plopping up on clicking it
button = gtk.Button( "Hello World" )
button.show()

# create an xfce panel plugin
plugin = xfce4.panel.Plugin()

plugin.add( button )

# Add right mouse button action
plugin.add_action_widget( button )

# Show plugin
plugin.show()

# Close plugin on destroy
plugin.connect("destroy", pynm.stop )

# Ready. Start plugin
gtk.main_loop()