Create my own panel plugin - Xubuntu

Question

I've installed Xubuntu 14.04.

In my panel I can add a lot of plugins. For example that show CPU load and RAM usage... But what about the temperature of each core?

I've found the files that contains the data about the temperature of each core: /sys/bus/platform/devices/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon0 and I want to create my own plugin.

Googling it I've found a tutorial about GTK+: it seems too difficult so I tried to find the source code of an existing panel widget to modify it.

I searched for the System Load Monitor source code, but all I found is this, without any source code.

Where can I download the source code of an existing plugin? There is a easy way to create an Xubuntu panel plugin?

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: What is a panel plugin? These are panel plugins:

panel plugins example

So you want a plugin or create your own plugin that displays your procesors temperature? Pretty sure psensor displays the temperature. — xangua, Jun 08 '15 at 21:50
did you check this? or it's a different from what you're looking? — JoKeR, Jun 08 '15 at 21:53
Yes, but can I leave psensor on the desktop panel, like a plugin and not like a window? — xdola, Jun 08 '15 at 21:53
well there are panel plugins (indicators) and desktop widgets I prefer to call them so ;) — JoKeR, Jun 08 '15 at 22:13
I modified one on my own with conky-manager how to configure conky. — JoKeR, Jun 08 '15 at 22:15

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '17 at 06:28

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As for creating a new panel plugin for Xfce, see https://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/panel_plugins and https://ecc-comp.blogspot.fi/2015/02/a-simple-tutorial-for-xfce-panel-plugin.html?m=1

answered Apr 15 '17 at 06:28

jarno

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 15 '17 at 05:37

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I also was looking for a panel plugin that shows the temperature of the CPU in Xubuntu 16.04. By default there is no such plugin installed. I found xfce4-sensors-plugin which was exactly what I was looking for.

I installed it by running the command:

sudo apt-get install xfce4-sensors-plugin

After that I could find Sensor plugin in the dialog to add a panel item.

To get the source code I ran:

sudo apt-get source xfce4-sensors-plugin

edited Apr 15 '17 at 05:37

Zanna

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answered Apr 14 '17 at 21:56

fliegenpilzmann

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As we can see in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-sensors-plugin this package is also available for 14.04. – mook765 Apr 15 '17 at 06:03

Create my own panel plugin - Xubuntu

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