It was great to be a part of XFCE community during the GSOC 2021. Some things get placed on right place and some didn’t, but moving forward with lot of learning and new concept related to XFCE. This was my first interaction with the GTK world and XFCE Panel plugin. I have explored different waysContinue reading

It was a major challenge to receive socket emitted signal in the plug inside a socket program written in C programming language. So we decided to move forward with dbus approach as discussed in last blog. Inside a plugin we created dbus server part in gtkplug written in python and dbus client part in gtksocket.Continue reading

So, This was one of the major problem that we have to work on is to receive XFCE API signals in Plug developed using Python, signals were emitting out in our socket part that is written in C programming language, so we have to figure some logic so that our plug can response to emittedContinue reading

As in the last blog, we get to know about Gtk Socket and Gtk Plug in two different programming language that was C and Python. So moving forward in our process, now we will move forward toward installation process of panel plugin. I and my mentor decided to move forward with waf installation process, thereContinue reading

As we already discussed that we will be moving forward with GtkSocket and GtkPlug approach, so I will try to give you an idea how can you use this approach to develop xfce panel plugin. Previous Part Blog link: XFCE-PANEL-PLUGIN development using Python/Javascript – Part 1 GtkSocket gives the capacity to insert widget from oneContinue reading