#Linux mint battery desklets update

In Linux Mint 19.3, all editions ship with an XAppStatusIcon applet. LibXApp 1.6 also provides an API which makes it very easy to write applets for other desktop environments. The icons look crisp in HiDPI and they are rendered by the panel applet directly.Ĭinnamon, MATE and Xfce have applets for XAppStatusIcon. Symbolic icons are separated from fullcolor icons to make the tray look even more polished.

Support for any mouse click, button-press and button-release event.

It also provides the following benefits compared to AppIndicator: No dependency on obsolete GtkSocket/GtkPlug technology.No rendering, sizing or cropping issues.Support for dark themes and symbolic icons.Here are its benefits compared to GtkStatusIcon: Version 1.6 of libxapp introduces a new system tray solution called XAppStatusIcon. System-wide mechanism to let Linux distributions override JSON spice settings.Spices can be reloaded from their setting window burger menu.Out-of-process Gtk dialogs used to show spices 'About.'.Date and time settings rewritten in Python.Dbus and pulseaudio fixes in sound applet.Network applet rescans the network automatically when opened (rescan button removed).

#Linux mint battery desklets update

New sort option for spices (Applets, desklets, themes and extensions) according to whether or not they have an update available.Option added to disable the touchpad when a mouse is attached.Window focus mode is now configurable in System Settings.Speed optimizations in menu applet, theme settings and spices settings.Following a crash, Cinnamon can be restarted without 3rd party spices.