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[SFR]

This utility monitors the state of CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock* keys and shows status icons in system tray.
Right-clicking any icon displays a popup menu, where you can show/hide selected indicator or quit the app.
Just note that if you have only one icon enabled, it cannot be hidden.

The attached archive contains source code, two PETs (for 32bit and 64bit systems) and TXZ package for Fatdog - all built in FD, too.
Briefly tested in Slacko-5.7 and Tahr64-6.0.5, but may not work on other/older ones.

Written in C/GTK+-2.0 on Fatdog64-710.
Since I'm completely hopeless at drawing, I had to borrow status icons from somewhere - in this case LXPanel project.
EDIT: as of version 0.2, LockState uses status icons created by vovchik.
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* ScrollLock: in Puppyland this key is usually inactive. So, if xmodmap -pm shows:

[musher0]

Thanks, SFR.

Certainly useful for small WM's like aewm or echinus.

BFN.

[slavvo67]

I would have never thought of something so simple, yet useful.

Thanks SFR!

Slavvo67

[vovchik]

Dear SFR,

Very nice and terse -- and useful. Thanks.

I had to change the makefile to:

[zigbert]

Very nice

[vovchik]

Dear SFR,

I did some code golfing and reduced the six svg inline strings to one and then implemented a search and replace routine to ready the svgs for export to /tmp. I think it's more tidy and efficient that way if using inline svgs. And, any old stock gtk icon could conceivably go into the desktop file, perhaps, obviating a need to put anything in /usr/share/pixmaps (only the desktop file itself in /usr/share/applications). What do you think

I have , in addition to the modded source, also included a 32-bit Tahr binary.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[SFR]

Thanks guys!

@Vovchik: yeah, I was hoping someone would provide "our own" icons. Many thanks for that!
The only changes I've made was to darken the inactive color from #bbbbbb to #888888, to get better contrast, and replaced the character for inactive state of ScrollLock from ↓ to ⇣.
It really looks nicer with your icons.

As for the code, since it's using GTK+ and friends anyway, I'm trying to limit myself to g_ stuff as much as possible, so I replaced what I could.
Makefile fixed as well.

[vovchik]

Dear SFR,

It works very nicely and I'm glad I could be of some use. That search/replace function might indeed be useful elsehwere, but I can understand your desire to use gtk-related functions whenever possible. What is nice is that there are many ways the same problem can be solved with a bit of thinking. I wish politicians around the world would adopt the practice.

With kind regards,
vovchikl

[Puppus Dogfellow]

cool--seems to find the tray no matter where it's located. tested out the ability to attach shortcuts with the third mod in Rox and couldn't--second key didn't register no matter what non-modifier call i used. tried out meta and hyper and got control plus super and alt. tried it out in jwm and "3" as a key mask works fine. does anyone know how to get ISO_Level3_Shift working in puppy? Mode_shift works well (the file below uses it to put Menu on the q key--keyboard is missing menu and another i have is missing scroll_lock and menu, so this is the basic xmodfile i've been using:

[bigpup]

This could be offered as a pet package to install.

You can still posts pet packages on the forum.
Just nothing bigger than Max size 256K.

[SFR]

@Puppus Dogfellow: glad it works for you and thanks for the feedback.
Unfortunately I can't help you with the other stuff, because I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve and how it relates to LockState.
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[SFR]

Version 0.4:

• added Preferences dialog for colors & symbols customization
  
• some internal rearrangements/improvements

First post updated.

Greetings!

[SFR]

Version 0.5:

• added option to draw icons in reversed order (Scroll->Num->Caps), because some panels (JWM's, FBPanel...) draw tray icons from right to left
  
• added 'Redraw icons' option
  
• fixed some minor memory leaks
  
• fixed segfault with glib < 2.36
  
• small bugfix in sanity checks
  
• code improvements

First post updated.

Greetings!

[SFR]

Version 1.0:

• left-clicking an icon toggles the state of the corresponding key
  
• the last (hopefully) memory leak has been fixed
  
• minor rearrangements in the code

That's pretty much all I wanted to implement/fix.

Fist post updated.

Greetings!

[bigpup]