[lubuntu-users] lxpanel, resource monitor applet, altering the on-click function

[Israel]

Hi,
Your garbage did NOT get sent

As for lxpanel cpu applet I found this, it is a fork with more features, 
and YES it IS hard coded in:
https://github.com/danamlund/cpu-monitor-extension-lxpanel-plugin/blob/master/cpuda.c#L379
It *might* be different in the regular version.... but you could 
download this repo, follow the instructions and (of course) change 
lxtask to whatever

(My favorite lightweight one is htop)
x-terminal-emulator -e 'htop'

voila... simple hack.
It would be nice to read it from a config file, or have a nice way to 
change it!  I think PCMan (and friends) would bring your code upstream 
if it was nice!

On 05/05/2016 06:55 PM, David G. wrote:
> For some reason, Thunderbird seems to like to send my drafts to the list
> as opposed to sending them to the drafts folder and it does this
> automatically. I don't know if this is seen by others but, in my email
> client, that's what it appears to be.
>
> I do apologize for that - if it's showing on other's screens and being
> downloaded. I have since figured out a work-around where I simply do not
> put in an address until I'm ready to send the email.
>
> If you did NOT get my automatically saved draft in the list then please
> - do let me know. In other words, if you didn't get a gibberish email
> from me in the past 30 minutes - do let me know as it will ease my mind
> a great deal.
>
> I want to include the required information but I do not want to be
> overwhelming. I'm also mostly unfamiliar with the protocol even though
> I've subscribed for a while and have even answered a few questions.
>
> I have used lxpanel to create a sort of dock. This dock appears when I
> hold the mouse over the center of the top of the screen. Then, when I
> move the mouse, it disappears. It's kind of neat and does a good job,
> but I digress.
>
> I am not a fan of the default task manager that comes with Lubuntu. It's
> a task manager, most of them are fairly light. I did some investigating
> and, it turns out, one can use the xfce4-taskmanager without importing a
> bunch of other stuff. In fact, I've been using it for a while. I have to
> say, I love it. If you've never tried it - then it's as easy as apt-get
> and as easy to remove as anything else. (I highly recommend trying it -
> it's fantastic.)
>
> Now, in my little "dock" I have enabled the applet that is the resource
> monitor. That basically tells me how much RAM and CPU is in use. It's
> handy. When I click on it, it happily opens up lxtask (which is what
> Lubuntu comes with.)
>
> I have changed the system default to xfce4-taskmanager (by the way) and
> it even works when I open the task manager with CTRL + ALT + DEL. That
> is NOT what happens when I click on the resource monitor icons in my
> dock. That happily opens lxtask - which leads me to believe that it is
> hard coded and that's unfortunate.
>
> See, I want my mouse click, when over the icons that are the resource
> monitor, to open the new one - I want them to open xfce4-taskmanager and
> I seem to be unable to figure out how to do this.
>
> What I have done: I have used a search engine and discovered that they
> call them plugins. At least that is what it looks like. Now, in theory,I
> guess I could go ahead and write my own. I imagine that I can probably
> go so far as to find the source and hack that to make it do what I want
> - maybe. However, I'm hoping there's a far easier option than the two
> that I see as possible solutions.
>
> I'd also add that I've not programmed much of anything for a *very* long
> time. Until recently, I'd not really done any programming of note since
> 2007 and, to be more accurate, I've not done much since about 2001 -
> though I kept sort of at it until 2007. I'd hired competent people to do
> so on my behalf starting way back in the early 1990s. (I've been retired
> since 2007 which is when I sold my business.)
>
> Is there a way to change which application is opened when I click the
> resource monitor applet (plugin?) that is in lxpanel? If someone can
> point me in the right direction - I can try hacking the code and that
> might be good for me. I presume it's GPL so I'll just release the
> changes and directions. Heck, if I get really fancy, I guess I could
> write an option to allow people to select their own but time is a bit
> pressed until sometime after November of this year.
>
> Finally, that's all the information I can think of to add. If you need
> more information then I'll be happy to assist you in assisting me. I am,
> again, sorry if my saved drafts ended up going to the list. I have no
> idea how that even happened - it did so on my screen and I'm hoping that
> it's a fluke and only appears on my screen. I really would like to know
> if that's something I should be alarmed with or can repair - but that's
> a question for another time.
>
> Sincerely,
> David G. (aka KGIII)
>
>
>


-- 
Regards

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