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 **Pango Markups in the <txt> tag** **Pango Markups in the <txt> tag**
  
-The <txt> tag supports Pango Markups. See: [[https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html]]. With Pango markups, you can change text attributes like font colour, weight, size, etc, in your output string. To do so, use the <span></span> tag within the <txt></txt> tags. For example, to display the output in bold red, you could use something like:+Both the <txt> and <tool> tags support Pango Markups. See: [[https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html]]. With Pango markups, you can change text attributes like font colour, weight, size, etc, in your output string. To do so, use the <span></span> tag within the <txt></txt> or <tool></tool> tags. For example, to display the output in bold red, you could use something like:
  
   echo "<txt><span weight='Bold' fgcolor='Red'>Test</span></txt>"   echo "<txt><span weight='Bold' fgcolor='Red'>Test</span></txt>"
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   xfce4-panel --plugin-event=genmon-X:refresh:bool:true       xfce4-panel --plugin-event=genmon-X:refresh:bool:true    
 where "genmon-X" is the widget name of the particular genmon instance. To get this name, go to the panel properties screen and on the Items tab, hover your mouse over the genmon plugin to get it's internal name. where "genmon-X" is the widget name of the particular genmon instance. To get this name, go to the panel properties screen and on the Items tab, hover your mouse over the genmon plugin to get it's internal name.
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 +**Enhanced Gtk3 CSS Styling Capabilities**
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 +CSS styling capabilities have been enhanced by providing style classes for all elements of the plugin that can be styled via themes or individual overrides (~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css). For more information, see: [[https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin/tree/CSS%20Styling.txt]].
  
 //**(*dev-only)**// functionality is currently only available in the git tree and has not yet been officially released //**(*dev-only)**// functionality is currently only available in the git tree and has not yet been officially released
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   - display the state of the 2 batteries of my laptop   - display the state of the 2 batteries of my laptop
   - display the WIFI quality   - display the WIFI quality
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 +{{:projects:panel-plugins:gmail.png|:projects:panel-plugins:gmail.png}}
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 +In this example, we see the gmail checker script in action:
 +  - plugin display shows icon indicating state of new emails available
 +  - tooltip shows number of new messages, sender/subject of new messages, and timestamp of last check
 +  - clicking on the icon launches your email program
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 +{{:projects:panel-plugins:sysstat.png|:projects:panel-plugins:sysstat.png}}
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 +In this example, we see the sysstat script in action:
 +  - plugin display shows optional icon and 3 readings (cpu, memory, hard drive usage)
 +  - tooltip shows top 5 cpu and memory uses and hard drive space usage
 +  - clicking on the text output launches xfce4-taskmanager (//ver. 3.99 or greater//)
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 +{{:projects:panel-plugins:googcal.png|:projects:panel-plugins:googcal.png}}
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 +In this example, we see the google calendar checker script in action:
 +  - plugin display shows icon indicating state of new upcoming appointments
 +  - tooltip shows a listing of upcoming appointments
 +  - clicking on the icon opens google calendar in your browser
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 +{{:projects:panel-plugins:twit0.png|:projects:panel-plugins:twit0.png}}
 +{{:projects:panel-plugins:twit1.png|:projects:panel-plugins:twit1.png}}
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 +In this example, we see the twit (Twitter Timeline Notifier) script in action:
 +  - plugin display shows icon indicating state of new tweets in your timeline
 +  - libnotify notifications will be sent with new tweets
 +  - tool tip will show new and optionally recent tweets
 +  - clicking on the plugin icon can either execute a program, display a yad dialog with all recent tweets (above image), or compose and send a tweet.
  
 Most of the scripts are available in the plugin archive. Most of the scripts are available in the plugin archive.
  
 ===== Recent Releases ===== ===== Recent Releases =====
 +==== 4.0.1 (2017/10/29) ====
 +  * Allow pango markup in tooltip as well
 +  * Added some extra sample scripts (twit, google calendar, sysstat)
 +  * Enhanced CSS styling capabilites (see 'CSS Styling.txt' doc)
 +  * Fix progressbar wrong direction
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 +==== 4.0.0 (2017/02/25) ====
 +  * Fix PangoFontDescription not being able to display initial default string
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 +==== 3.99 (2016/11/02) ====
 +  * Port to Gtk3
 +  * Fix font styling to work with Gtk 3.22
 +  * Add support for "genmon" in 'xfce4-panel --plugin-event' (Bug #10734)
 +  * Fix default tooltip does not work (bug #11284)
 +  * Add <txtclick> functionality (Bug #3437)
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 ==== 3.4 (2012/05/12) ==== ==== 3.4 (2012/05/12) ====
   * Port from libxfcegui4 to libxfce4ui   * Port from libxfcegui4 to libxfce4ui