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dev:howto:panel_plugins [2017/04/18 04:21] – Add detail about X-XFCE-Module andreldmdev:howto:panel_plugins [2017/04/18 04:27] – Fix panel plugins path andreldm
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 To help development, you can also test plugins without installing them on panel's prefix (e.g. /usr), you can also directly run plugins from the source so you don't need to to overwrite a plugin version from your distribution. To accomplish this, build the plugin with make and then follow these steps: To help development, you can also test plugins without installing them on panel's prefix (e.g. /usr), you can also directly run plugins from the source so you don't need to to overwrite a plugin version from your distribution. To accomplish this, build the plugin with make and then follow these steps:
  
-  * Create a symbolic link from your plugin binary to the panel's prefix installation, e.g. ''ln -s /home/johndoe/where/your/src/is/panel-plugin/.libs/libyourplugin.so /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libyourplugin-git.so''+  * Create a symbolic link from your plugin binary to the panel's prefix installation, e.g. ''ln -s /home/johndoe/where/your/src/is/panel-plugin/.libs/libyourplugin.so /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libyourplugin-git.so''
   * Copy ''/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/yourplugin.desktop'' to ''/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/yourplugin-git.desktop''   * Copy ''/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/yourplugin.desktop'' to ''/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/yourplugin-git.desktop''
   * Edit the latter to point at 'yourplugin-git' instead of 'yourplugin', modify the ''Name'' entry to distinguish your instance and ''X-XFCE-Module'' to match the symbolic link, i.e. ''libyourplugin-git''.   * Edit the latter to point at 'yourplugin-git' instead of 'yourplugin', modify the ''Name'' entry to distinguish your instance and ''X-XFCE-Module'' to match the symbolic link, i.e. ''libyourplugin-git''.