Wingpanel
The extensible top panel for Pantheon. Wingpanel is an empty container that accepts indicators as extensions, including the applications menu. Individual indicators are hosted in their own repositories here.
Building and Installation
You'll need the following dependencies:
- libgala-dev
- libgee-0.8-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgranite-dev >= 5.4.0
- libgtk-3-dev
- meson
- libmutter-2-dev
- valac
Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja to build
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
To install, use ninja install then execute with wingpanel
sudo ninja install
wingpanel
Preventing Wingpanel from restarting, e.g. for development
Wingpanel is started automatically on elementary OS with gnome-session autostarts. If you kill the io.elementary.wingpanel process twice within 60 seconds, it will keep gnome-session from restarting it until you log out or reboot.