genmonify: HOOK modules in XFCE panel !!!???
Channel: budlabs
Date: 2020-11-16

the best feature of polybar, hook modules, is very much doable in the xfce panel.

[00:00] - https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=14483
[00:46] - https://github.com/budlabs/polify
[01:25] - https://github.com/budlabs/genmonify
[01:35] - https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin
[02:16] - pacman -Ss genmon 
[03:55] - git clone https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin.git
[04:49] - sudo ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc  --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var  --disable-static
[06:05] - sudo make install
[06:38] - add new panel item
[07:12] - panel item properties
[07:45] - example genmon usage
[09:30] - xfce4-panel --plugin-event=genmon-ID:refresh:bool:true
[09:55] - 86400 seconds == 24 hours
[10:32] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/genmonify/
[11:40] - genmonify -v
[13:00] - genmonify # create config directory
[13:21] - ~/.config/genmonify/module-list
[18:58] - ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml
[10:22] - plugin-id
[22:06] - sed magik
[23:40] - icon browser
[24:18] - change icon theme
[26:45] - clickable icons --iconclick "COMMAND"
[28:33] - custom tooltip --tooltip PANGO
[30:00] - --expire-time SECONDS
[30:50] - --msg "secret message"
[31:26] - --get secret message
[32:00] - genmonifypop POLIPOP
[35:00] - https://github.com/budlabs/bwp