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Using xmonad-log-applet with the XFCE panel, I had to patch it to show correctly accents.
The applet is fed with unicode strings but those have to be converted to iso-8859-1 to appear in the panel.

I suggest to include the following patch for XFCE:

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index a098885..e2cd6d6 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@

static void signal_handler(DBusGProxy *obj, const char *msg, GtkWidget *widget)
{

• gtk_label_set_markup(GTK_LABEL(widget), msg);
• gchar* iso = g_convert(msg, -1, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", NULL, NULL, NULL);
• gtk_label_set_markup(GTK_LABEL(widget), iso);
• g_free(iso);
  }

static void set_up_dbus_transfer(GtkWidget *buf)

any chance to get an example xmonad.hs using dbus-core instead of DBus? cause i can't compile DBus but, i already compiled and packges dbus-core?

I've been trying to modify my xmonad.hs and xmonad-log-applet to have a separate xmonad-log-applet on each of my physical monitors, each showing only those workspaces which I've designated on the left monitor, and those on the right.

After the better part of a week, I have given up for now. Do you know how I would implement this? I tried simply installing two different versions of xmonad-log-applet, one for the left and one for the right monitors, but that hasn't worked out.

README currently mention old DBus package bindings as dependency but example xmonad.hs uses new dbus package instead.

With Gnome 3.20 the function panel_applet_set_background_widget no longer exists, so the applet can't draw itself on the panel. I have been searching for an alternative, but I can't find one so far.

Title says it all :-)

Hi. Would it be possible to get clickable workspace buttons?
I tried to get this functionality using some instruction that I found for xmobar, but to no avail.

I am using the applet with MATE atm, if some good guy can point me to viable documentation to implement this I could try to do it myself, at least for the aforementioned DE.
Thanks!

Hi Alex,

You haven't happen to try to integrate xmonad-log-applet with the unity-2d-panel?

There are a couple of pages that give tips on how to integrate xmonad with unity-2d:

http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Unity_2D

But on neither there's info on how to get the xmonad-log-applet to show in that panel.

Hello,

I experienced some troubles at recompiling your example code. While i'm not an haskell programmer, i managed to fix it this way:

The error was:

Couldn't match expected type `D.ObjectPath'
            with actual type `[Char]'

So i forced the types:

D.objectPath_ "/org/xmonad/Log") (D.interfaceName_ "org.xmonad.Log") (D.memberName_ "Update")

Ubuntu precise (12.04) using some quantal packages (haskell-dbus)

I managed to get the gnome 3 version of the log applet working, but unfortunately it always shows ellipses '...' because gnome-panel has decided to ignore PANEL_APPLET_EXPAND_MAJOR.

This is true even on a new, otherwise-empty horizontal panel. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and Gnome Classic (basically the stock XMonad installation from repository).

Is there a way to set a fixed width, so as to not depend on gnome-panel setting it properly? I've been fiddling with gnome-panel.css, but I don't believe it actually is able to set panel applet width.

There is no libpanelapplet-2.0 in GNOME 3.