lxpanel_ifaddr

LXDE Panel Plugin that displays an interfaces current IP address

We needed a simple LXDE Plugin to display the IP information of a kiosk style machine our company is using, since it may not have a static IP address once installed. Since I could not find one (though I did not look TOO hard) I used the lxpanel plugin tutorial (http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_write_plugins_for_LXPanel) to write my own. Please refer to that wiki page to get the required packages in order to build.

I did this on Ubuntu Server 12.04, and have not tested anywhere else.

Currently (at the time I am adding this) the interface name is hardcoded to 'eth0'.

Ubuntu 12.04

Quick build instructions (once you have the dependencies):

• Install

1. make all
2. sudo make install

• Uninstall

1. sudo make uninstall

The plugin should be accessible from the "Add/Remove Panel Items" option in LXDE

Raspbian

You need the following packages on Raspbian:

• libglib2.0-dev
• libmenu-cache1-dev
• libgtk2.0-dev

Command:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libmenu-cache1-dev libgtk2.0-dev

• Install

1. make all
2. sudo cp ifaddr.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lxpanel/plugins

• Uninstall

1. sudo rm /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lxpanel/plugins/ifaddr.so