Keylock indicator for Xfce panel

Solution 1:

The keylock indicator plugin for Xfce4 "shows the state of your keyboard LEDs: Caps, Scroll and Num Lock in Xfce panel."

Installation instructions for Xfce4 keylock indicator plugin:

(Note: This works on Xfce versions 4.6 and 4.8. Xfce 4.10 uses a different version of the libxfce4ui widget library and I haven't tested this plugin with 4.10).

EDIT: Tested and it works fine till Xfce versions 4.12.

• Download the files from here.

• Move to your download directory and unpack the files by running the following command:

  • sudo tar -jxf xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.0.6.tar.bz2

• Next, change to the directory xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.0.6 and run these commands:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
   make 
  sudo make install
  

• Finally, add the plugin to your panel.

  -- The Add New Items dialogue can be opened by right clicking on an empty space on the panel and selecting Add New Items. If you right click on a space occupied by a panel plugin, you can access Add New Items by going to Panel → Add New Items.

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