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ineuw

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 98

Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

I am using this plugin in Linux Mint Cinnamon, but it is lacking standard features, which indicate to me that it is no longer maintained/supported.

* It has no quit feature, One must use the System monitor to kill it.
* With each restart, the /home/ineuw/.config/xfce4/xfce4-notes.css is overwritten/recreated with the these two unchangeable lines,

@define-color notes_bg_color #f7eb96;
@import url("/usr/share/xfce4-notes-plugin/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css");

* When changes made to the file, the above replaces it.
* The above color #f7eb96; should be yellow, but everything is white.
* When setting the Transarency = 0, this reverts to 9.

Is there a way I can tweak "/usr/share/xfce4-notes-plugin/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css"? 

What else can I do to correct these issues?

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Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.3

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

* It has no quit feature, One must use the System monitor to kill it.

Right-click the tray icon and select remove.

* With each restart, the /home/ineuw/.config/xfce4/xfce4-notes.css is overwritten/recreated with the these two unchangeable lines,

After you make changes to the file, set it immutable flag:

sudo chattr +i xfce4-notes.css

...this will prevent any changes to the file. If you want to later edit the contents, you'll need to remove the immutable flag:

sudo chattr -i xfce4-notes.css

...and reset it again when finished editing the file

* The above color #f7eb96; should be yellow, but everything is white.

This is odd, I don't see this happening in Xfce. Is it possible that something in Cinnamon is doing this?

* When setting the Transarency = 0, this reverts to 9.

I don't believe transparency works any more.

Is there a way I can tweak "/usr/share/xfce4-notes-plugin/gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css"?

Probably the best way is to directly edit that file. Here is an example of someone who did just that.

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ineuw

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 98

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

Again, many thanks. To be honest, I tried others, all of which are mini text processors, which I don't want.

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Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.3

ineuw

Member

From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 98

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

Locking the file worked, but removing it from the panel, does not. (It is not in the Startup). Monitoring the processes, when xfce4-notes is clicked, two processes identical are started. When the icon is removed from the panel, only one process is terminated. The other is still running.

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Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.3

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

I'm sorry I'm not familiar with the inner workings of cinnamon. Does it have a sessions cache like Xfce that would need to be cleaned? If not in autostart, it must be starting from somewhere.

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ineuw

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 98

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

There must be a cleaner somewhere, (I will ask) because today there is only one process and when I removed the icon from panel it also terminated it. Many thanks again and all is well.

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Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.3

him610

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From: Pennsylvania USA

Registered: 2022-02-19

Posts: 18

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

Here is a way - from xfce4-terminal with xfce4-notes running...

$ ps
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
 616232 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
2189879 pts/1    00:00:00 xfce4-notes
2189898 pts/1    00:00:00 ps

$ kill 2189879

$ ps
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
 616232 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
2190567 pts/1    00:00:00 ps

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KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Xfce4-notes plugin 1.90 has multiple issues

If job control is enabled (for interactive shells, it is), you can use its jobspec in place of pid:

09:21:06 ~ xfce4-notes &
[1] 5434
09:21:09 ~ xlogo &
[2] 5439
09:21:14 ~ ps
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
   4395 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
   5434 pts/0    00:00:00 xfce4-notes
   5439 pts/0    00:00:00 xlogo
   5513 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
09:21:17 ~ jobs
[1]-  Running                 xfce4-notes &
[2]+  Running                 xlogo &
09:21:25 ~ kill %1
09:21:28 ~ jobs
[1]-  Done                    xfce4-notes
[2]+  Running                 xlogo &
~ 

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