I'm trying to get XFApplet to work in my XFCE4 install for Ubuntu 12.04. I have tried installing it from the repos. But there is no xfapplet
in apt-cache
, instead I get this:
$ apt-cache search xfapplet
xfce4-goodies - enhancements for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment
So I make sure that xfce4 goodies is installed, which it is:
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xfce4-goodies is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
Ok, so I go into the panel to add a new item and of course it's not there:
For the record I have GNOME installed completely! This is an Ubuntu system not Xubuntu, when I upgraded from 11 to 12.04 I wanted XFCE instead of Gnome, but I never uninstalled gnome at all. I can even run Gnome classic without any problems and all works, so that should mean all dependencies are there.
So then I decided to compile from source: (link at bottom) http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin
Ok, so on configure I get this:
checking for libpanelapplet-2.0 >= 2.0.0... not found
*** The required package libpanelapplet-2.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install libpanelapplet-2.0 (atleast version 2.0.0) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.
Of course running apt-cache libpanelapplet
I get nothing, but if I run apt-cache libpanel
I get:
$ apt-cache search libpanel
gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0 - GObject introspection for the GNOME Panel Applet library
gnome-panel-dbg - GNOME Panel and library for panel applets - debugging symbols
libpanel-applet-4-0 - library for GNOME Panel applets
libpanel-applet-4-dev - library for GNOME Panel applets - development files
libpanel-applet-4-doc - library for GNOME Panel applets - documentation files
So I install 4:
$ sudo apt-get install libpanel-applet-4-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgconf2-dev libgconf2-doc libpanel-applet-4-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgconf2-dev libgconf2-doc libpanel-applet-4-dev libpanel-applet-4-doc
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
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Great, the configure still complains the exact same message of not found version 2. I have version 4 installed and running:
$ whereis libpanel-applet-4
libpanel-applet-4: /usr/lib/libpanel-applet-4.so
Any ideas? I am running version 4.8 of XFCE4.