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.