Is there a way of writing short text messages in the panel[s]?

[Chris G]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:16:17PM +0100, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Le Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:02:32 +0000,
> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> a écrit :
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:32:25AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > On lun, 2009-03-16 at 18:54 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > > Is there any way to display short text messages in the xfce panel?
> > > 
> > > Besides genmon you could look at messenger plugin which is to be
> > > used with dbus messages.
> > > 
> > What I have actually done is to take a look at the xfce-genmon-plugin
> > source code and modified it to be able to specify colours.  It turned
> > out to be very simple as the text is output using
> > gtk_label_set_text(), changing this to gtk_label_set_markup() allows
> > simple markup for text colours etc.  I haven't fully checked it out
> > yet, I think it may need some increase in buffer size to handle the
> > possible extra length of the text.  I currently have a message in my
> > panel with large blue text though. :-)
> > 
> > Would this change be of interest to other xfce users?  If so how do I
> > set about submitting it?
> > 
> 
> Open an enhancement bug against the plugin and attach a patch.
> 
> http://bugs.xfce.org
> 
OK, done, it's Bug 5124.

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Chris Green