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The install copies the libkbdleds.so file to the proper place (after workaround for issue #2), but it also copies the kbdleds.la file. None of the other plugins do that, is this copy necessary?

In my use case, I need only Caps Lock indicator, as caps lock led broke on physical keyboard.

Feature request here, is to add configuration option to the widget, enabling showing / hiding particular led indicators.

It does not build out of the box for the following reason:
autogen.sh complains about a missing README, this can be fixed by copying README.md to README. But a change in the autogen files would be better.

With the default ¨ ./configure --prefix=/usr " components get installed at wrong locations, at least for Mint 20.1 and Manjaro, compared to for instance the xfce4-battery-plugin.
Running configure as " ./configure --prefix=/usr --datarootdir=/usr/share --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu " .
If this should be the default for current distro's, can de ./configure defaults be changed? I am not familiar with autogen or ./configure myself.

XFCE itself is now GTK+3-based. Some distros are starting to gently push towards removing GTK+2-only software. It would be great if this plugin were migrated to GTK+3. If you are OK with that happening but don’t want to do it yourself, I may (no promises) be able to do it myself and send a PR, but I wanted to check in and see if you had any objections first (or avoid duplicate work if it’s already happening).

Please update the releases in xfce plugins site

After building is successfully (see issues 1 and 2), it can be installed but there is no icon. Not in "Panel -> Add New Items" or in the "About" properties of the plugin.
However, if I copy the xfce4-battery-plugin.png in the 32x32 folder to xfce4-kbdleds-plugin.png, the battery icon shows up in "Panel -> Add New Items" . But the "About" still has no icon.
There probably is a spec that says which icons sizes are used when, but I have not found it.
My panel row height is 32 pixels, if I increase to 60 or so it does not make a difference.

After building and installing xfce4-kbdleds-plugin, the CapsLock and NumLock indicators work fine, but the ScrollLock indicatopr does not react. Standard desktop PC with normal US ASCII keyboard, no extra keys like multimedia.