README

COMMAND OUTPUT MONITOR PANEL APPLET

Compa is a Mate Panel Applet that can display the standard output of any command
on the panel.

In addition it is able to show the output of a different command in its tooltip
and launch another command when clicked.

Compa text style can be modified using Text Attribute Markup Language
(https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/pango_markup.html).

Many thanks to Ofer Kashayov for having designed the original version for the
now obsolete Gnome 2 desktop.


BUILD A DISTRIBUTION TARBALL FROM A GIT CLONE:

1.  $ git clone https://github.com/monnerat/compa.git
2.  $ cd compa
3.  $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
4.  $ make dist

Then find the tarball compa-*.tar.gz in the current directory.


INSTALLATION FROM A DISTRIBUTION TARBALL:

1.  Download, gunzip and untar
2.  $ cd compa-*
3.  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/
4.  $ make
5.  $ sudo make install
6.  Restart Mate
7.  Add to panel


BUILDING AN RPM PACKAGE FROM A DISTRIBUTION TARBALL:

1.  rpmbuild -ta compa-*.tar.gz