How to show caps lock and num lock status in xfce [solved]

[elamir]

Hi

I'm using xfce4 on Bullseye and my laptop doesn't have any LEDs or other indicators of caps lock and num lock, a panel plugin could help me out of this but I didn't find xfce4-kbleds-plugin package in apt and also it's not available on xfce's website on URL: https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel ... eds-plugin

does anyone know what happened to the package? and does anyone have it on any other repository?

P.S: this is a bit off topic but I'm writing a package to show caps lock and num lock status and up to now it notifies the status on change, I'd be happy if I could have the plugin package so that I can add "panel indicator" as a feature to my code as well

[FreewheelinFrank]

Write a short Genmon script to output the status to the panel using

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$ xset -q | grep Caps

[elamir]

Write a short Genmon script to output the status to the panel using

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$ xset -q | grep Caps

that's also a solution thanks, but I'm looking for a specific plugin

[FreewheelinFrank]

I'm sure you could do it as well as or better than me, because I'm just a hobby coder, but here is my script for anybody interested:

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#!/bin/bash
status=$(xset -q | grep Caps | awk '{print $2 $3 $4, $6 $7 $8}')
PANEL="<txt>$status</txt>"
TOOLTIP="<tool>"
TOOLTIP+="Caps lock and number lock status"
TOOLTIP+="</tool>"
  echo -e "${PANEL}"
  echo -e "${TOOLTIP}"

Save as key-lock-status.sh, make executable and add a Genmon instance to the panel with /home/user/key-lock-status.sh as the command. Update interval as desired.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Sorry but I can't resist:

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status=$(xset -q | grep Caps | awk '{print $2 $3 $4, $6 $7 $8}')

Awk can search as well:

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status=$(xset -q | awk '/Caps/{print $2 $3 $4, $6 $7 $8}')

[Head_on_a_Stick]

it's not available on xfce's website on URL: https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel ... eds-plugin

does anyone know what happened to the package? and does anyone have it on any other repository?

https://github.com/oco2000/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin