I’m a beginner developer in Gtk and also in Python. I’m trying to create a gtk.StatusIcon displaying a text string in place of a icon. How can I accomplish this with PixBuf, or any other way?
Thanks.
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I’m a beginner developer in Gtk and also in Python. I’m trying to create a gtk.StatusIcon displaying a text string in place of a icon. How can I accomplish this with PixBuf, or any other way?
Thanks.
This is possible – two ideas come to mind:
a.) Use an offscreen GtkLabel and then call
gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable (gtk_widget_get_snapshot (label))(a GdkPixmap is a GdkDrawable.) This will do an XGetImage to get pixels from the X server.b.) Or you could use Cairo to draw text to the pixbuf – this is the technique that was used for the keyboard status icon in GNOME: http://blogs.gnome.org/sudaltsov/category/general/