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89 lines
2.0 KiB
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Introduction
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This GNOME Shell Extension aims to display information to center box. Using DBUS protocol, any application can add or remove text and icons in the upper bar, right after date & clock.
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Installation
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Create a symbolic link from your _.local_ directory and enable extension
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ln -s $PWD/generic-monitor@gnome-shell-extensions/ ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
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gnome-extensions enable generic-monitor@gnome-shell-extensions
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Restart GNOME
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DBUS protocol
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All functions read JSON formatted parameters
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notify():
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{
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"group": "groupname",
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// item can have text and/or icon, other are optional
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// click action can be : "signal" or "delete"
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// box property can be : "left", "center" or "right"
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"items": [
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{
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"name":"",
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"text":"",
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"style":"",
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"icon-style":"",
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"icon":"",
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"on-click":"",
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"box":"",
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}, ...
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]
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}
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}
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deleteItems():
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{
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"items": ["<itemName>@<groupName>", ...]
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}
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deleteGroups():
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{
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"groups": ["<groupName>", ...]
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}
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When text/icon is clicked and on-click parameter is set to "signal",
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extension emit one of the following signals :
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* onClick
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* onRightClick
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* onDblClick
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* onRightDblClick
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Example
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You can test it with command line :
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gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /com/soutade/GenericMonitor --method com.soutade.GenericMonitor.notify '{"group":"new","items":[{"name":"first","text":"Hello","style":"color:green"}]}'
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gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /com/soutade/GenericMonitor --method com.soutade.GenericMonitor.deleteGroups '{"groups":["new"]}'
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Python example is available
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Development
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After doing code update, you can test it within a nested window. In other cases you have to restart GNOME.
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dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested [--wayland]
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To see log & errors :
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journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
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Licence
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GNU GPL 3 |