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SimonJ

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[SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

Hello,

I have XFCE4 and also xfce4-kbdleds-plugin, the led package will not build now and no reply on the AUR page as yet.

I do not have the actual package and have a new machine I am setting up, so, is there something else which sits on the panel/in the tray to show if the caps,number and scroll locks are on?

Last edited by SimonJ (2025-06-22 20:29:23)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

configure.ac:100: You should run autoupdate.

Did you try?

Edit: debian maintains the sources, the release tarball there will have autogen done already - maybe you can leverage that into a PKGBUILD

Last edited by seth (2025-06-21 13:07:23)

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

Yes I tried it and I got further errors about needing autoupdate

Preparing package directory /home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0...
Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf: running: intltoolize --copy --force
You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:37: warning: The macro 'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' is obsolete.
configure.ac:37: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/status.m4:719: AC_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.ac:37: the top level
configure.ac:52: warning: The macro 'AC_PROG_LD' is obsolete.
configure.ac:52: You should run autoupdate.
m4/libtool.m4:3503: AC_PROG_LD is expanded from...
configure.ac:52: the top level
configure.ac:54: warning: AM_NLS is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
m4/intltool.m4:27: IT_PROG_INTLTOOL is expanded from...
configure.ac:54: the top level
configure.ac:59: warning: The macro 'AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
configure.ac:59: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:663: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
configure.ac:59: the top level
configure.ac:100: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
configure.ac:100: You should run autoupdate.
configure:15054: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_NLS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

I did post on the AUR page.
I don't know what autoupdate is so I just stopped there.

Edit: I found this page https://github.com/oco2000/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin

but the package  libxfce4panel-2.0-dev is not found in the AUR and at that point I thought maybe there was an alternative. :-)

Last edited by SimonJ (2025-06-21 15:00:04)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

If you don't know what autoupdate is, how did you try it?
"man autoupdate" - the suggestion would be to run that in the $srcdir, then "makepkg -e" to not overwrite the result

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

If you don't know what autoupdate is, how did you try it?
"man autoupdate" - the suggestion would be to run that in the $srcdir, then "makepkg -e" to not overwrite the result

So the autoiupdate in the src dir resulted in

autoupdate 
configure.ac:59: warning: The preprocessor macro 'STDC_HEADERS' is obsolete.
  Except in unusual embedded environments, you can safely include all
  C89 headers unconditionally.

Then

makepkg -e
==> Making package: xfce4-kbdleds-plugin 0.3.0-1 (Sat 21 Jun 2025 17:24:17 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
Preparing package directory /home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0...
Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf: running: intltoolize --copy --force
You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:37: warning: The macro 'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' is obsolete.
configure.ac:37: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/status.m4:719: AC_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.ac:37: the top level
configure.ac:52: warning: The macro 'AC_PROG_LD' is obsolete.
configure.ac:52: You should run autoupdate.
m4/libtool.m4:3503: AC_PROG_LD is expanded from...
configure.ac:52: the top level
configure.ac:54: warning: AM_NLS is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
m4/intltool.m4:27: IT_PROG_INTLTOOL is expanded from...
configure.ac:54: the top level
configure.ac:59: warning: The macro 'AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
configure.ac:59: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:663: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
configure.ac:59: the top level
configure.ac:100: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
configure.ac:100: You should run autoupdate.
configure:15054: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_NLS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...That generally means that the package had an overquoted macro in its
configure.ac.  You may be better off reporting this to the acl folks, to
see if it is a bug in their files.

Thank you for your help

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

configure:15054: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_NLS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

You'll probably have to fix up the autoconf ac's for real - did you have a look at the debian maintained sources?

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

I am looking at the source now, I have got past the initial error and got the autogen to complete, then the makekg -e results in

==> Making package: xfce4-kbdleds-plugin 0.3.0-1 (Sat 21 Jun 2025 17:54:35 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
Preparing package directory /home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0...
Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf: running: intltoolize --copy --force
You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:37: warning: The macro 'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' is obsolete.
configure.ac:37: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/status.m4:719: AC_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.ac:37: the top level
configure.ac:52: warning: The macro 'AC_PROG_LD' is obsolete.
configure.ac:52: You should run autoupdate.
m4/libtool.m4:3503: AC_PROG_LD is expanded from...
configure.ac:52: the top level
configure.ac:54: warning: AM_NLS is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
m4/intltool.m4:27: IT_PROG_INTLTOOL is expanded from...
configure.ac:54: the top level
configure.ac:59: warning: The macro 'AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
configure.ac:59: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:663: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
configure.ac:59: the top level
configure.ac:100: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
configure.ac:100: You should run autoupdate.
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:45: installing './compile'
configure.ac:36: installing './missing'
panel-plugin/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
autoreconf: Leaving directory '.'

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Build Configuration:

* Debug Support:    minimum

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0'
Making all in icons
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Making all in 48x48
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Making all in scalable
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make[2]: Entering directory '/home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0/panel-plugin'
  CC       libkbdleds_la-kbdleds.lo
  CC       libkbdleds_la-xkbleds.lo
xkbleds.c:37:35: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (4 chars into 3 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
   37 | char short_lock_names[NUM_LEDS] = "cns";
      |                                   ^~~~~
  CC       libkbdleds_la-kbdleds-dialogs.lo
kbdleds-dialogs.c: In function 'kbdleds_configure':
kbdleds-dialogs.c:132:3: warning: 'xfce_titled_dialog_new_with_buttons' is deprecated: Use xfce_titled_dialog_new_with_mixed_buttons () instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  132 |   dialog = xfce_titled_dialog_new_with_buttons (_("Kbdleds Plugin"),
      |   ^~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/xfce4/libxfce4ui-2/libxfce4ui/libxfce4ui.h:36,
                 from kbdleds-dialogs.c:27:
/usr/include/xfce4/libxfce4ui-2/libxfce4ui/xfce-titled-dialog.h:74:1: note: declared here
   74 | xfce_titled_dialog_new_with_buttons (const gchar *title,
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  CCLD     libkbdleds.la
  ITMRG  kbdleds.desktop
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Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'all-@USE_NLS@', needed by 'all'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0/po'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:460: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0'
make: *** [Makefile:392: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I will keep at it :-)

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'all-@USE_NLS@', needed by 'all'.  Stop.

The actual build has succeeded but you managed to turn USE_NLS into an extra build target…

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 848ae2af8d

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

I have spent a long time working on trying to fix this and without success, I cannot complete the build.

I have found an old package (xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.2.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst) which installed and works from a backup, it is not the latest one but solves my immediate problem.

Thank you @seth for your help but this is beyond me at the moment, I may try again later. I am keeping the source file and the source RPM for later :-)

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

https://github.com/oco2000/xfce4-kbdled … file.am#L4

- ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I /usr/share/gettext/m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

I changed this and ran

makepkg -e
==> Making package: xfce4-kbdleds-plugin 0.3.0-1 (Sun 22 Jun 2025 13:22:05 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
Preparing package directory /home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0...
Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I /usr/share/gettext/m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize:   error: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) conflicts with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I /usr/share/gettext/m4.
autoreconf: error: libtoolize failed with exit status: 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

So then went back a stage and

./autogen.sh 
Preparing package directory /home/simon/aur/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin/src/xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-xfce4-kbdleds-plugin-0.3.0...
Running intltoolize --automake --copy --force
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I /usr/share/gettext/m4 ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize:   error: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) conflicts with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I /usr/share/gettext/m4.
autoreconf: error: libtoolize failed with exit status: 1

I did try autoupdate and autoconf and then tried again but the outcome was the same.

I have had the same problem with xfce4-docklike-plugin but this was fixed by downloading the package build again. It changed from

# Maintainer : contact@tiotrom.com
# Contributer: nsz32 <nszabo2 at gmail dot com>, bittin

pkgname="xfce4-docklike-plugin"
pkgver="0.4.2"
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc='A modern, docklike, minimalist taskbar for XFCE'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64' "aarch64")
url='https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin'
license=('GPL3')
depends=('xfce4-panel>=4.4' 'libwnck3' 'libxfce4ui' 'gtk3' 'cairo' 'glib2' 'exo')
makedepends=('xfce4-dev-tools' 'intltool' 'autoconf')
conflicts=("${pkgname}-git" "${pkgname}-ng-git")
dirname="xfce4-docklike-plugin-xfce4-docklike-plugin-${pkgver}"

source=(
	#"https://github.com/davekeogh/xfce4-docklike-plugin/archive/v${pkgver}.zip"
	"${url}/-/archive/xfce4-docklike-plugin-${pkgver}/xfce4-docklike-plugin-xfce4-docklike-plugin-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
)

sha512sums=('SKIP')

prepare() {
	cd "${srcdir}/${dirname}"
	./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr \




}

build() {
	cd "${srcdir}/${dirname}"
	make
}

package() {
	cd "${srcdir}/${dirname}"
	make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
}

to

# Maintainer:  twa022 <twa022 at gmail dot com>
# Contributor: nsz32 <nszabo2 at gmail dot com>

_pkgname=xfce4-docklike-plugin
pkgname=${_pkgname}-git
epoch=1
pkgver=0.5.0.r4.g125b25b
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A modern, docklike, minimalist taskbar for XFCE (git checkout)'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'aarch64' 'armv7h')
url='https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin'
license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
depends=('xfce4-panel' 'libxfce4windowing' 'gtk-layer-shell')
makedepends=('git' 'xfce4-dev-tools' 'meson')
provides=("${_pkgname}=${pkgver%.r*}")
conflicts=(${_pkgname})


source=(git+${url})
sha512sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
	cd ${_pkgname}
	git describe --long --tags | sed "s|xfce4-docklike-plugin-||g" | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
}

build() {
  local meson_options=(
    -D x11=enabled
    -D wayland=enabled
  )

  arch-meson "${_pkgname}" build "${meson_options[@]}"
  meson compile -C build
}

package() {
  meson install -C build --destdir "$pkgdir"
}

So I will look into that as a possible way to change it.

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

libtoolize:   error: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) conflicts with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I /usr/share/gettext/m4.

Just noticed that I didn't actually link you https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/ … tor-plugin
Using https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team/good … er.tar.bz2 as source (and skipping the hashes) and then also skipping the autogen call in the PKGBUILD should™ work?

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

I got a package built and installed, it needed libayatana-indicator installed to complete, however it failed to start and was removed from the panel and then I could not add it back. Using the old backup worked so it is close.

Thank you, I will keep at it

Edit I am not sure xfce4-indicator-plugin is the same package.

Last edited by SimonJ (2025-06-22 15:46:38)

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

Edit I am not sure xfce4-indicator-plugin is the same package.

No, you're right - I fell for a google result.

The bug is in /usr/bin/adt-autogen (from xfce4-dev-tools)
At the top you'll find

m4macrodir="${datarootdir}/aclocal"

Make that

m4macrodir="/usr/share/gettext/m4"

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

Perfect thank you.

I did find the file as /usr/bin/xdt-autogen

I checked at

Package Contents
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/bin/xdt-autogen
usr/bin/xdt-check-abi
usr/bin/xdt-csource
usr/bin/xdt-gen-visibility
usr/bin/xfce-build
usr/bin/xfce-do-release
usr/bin/xfce-get-release-notes
usr/bin/xfce-get-translations
usr/bin/xfce-update-news
usr/share/
usr/share/aclocal/
usr/share/aclocal/xdt-depends.m4
usr/share/aclocal/xdt-features.m4
usr/share/aclocal/xdt-i18n.m4
usr/share/aclocal/xdt-version.m4
usr/share/man/
usr/share/man/man1/
usr/share/man/man1/xdt-csource.1.gz

Thank you so much

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

I can basically no longer type straight
But the forecast promises the temperatures to drop by 10° over night.

Edit: you probably want to file a bug upstream, this isn't a problem w/ some obscure 3rd party widget

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard status applet

We have been at 35°C all day, now at 25°C, and that is as low as it goes tonight. I hope you get some relief where you are :-)

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