hi all i'm a complete newbie in developing with gtk, but yesterday i had an idea about develope a gnome panel which could substitute conky.. In fact i'm in need of a panel that simply display the output of a bash script.. well, after have googled a bit, i found a guide for implementing gnome applet and here is the result #include <string.h> #include <panel-applet.h> #include <gtk/gtklabel.h> #include <stdio.h> static gboolean on_button_press (GtkWidget *event_box, GdkEventButton *event, GtkWidget* label){ if (event->button != 1) return FALSE; else { FILE* fp; char line[160]; fp = popen("~/scripts/allin1", "r"); fgets( line, sizeof line, fp); pclose(fp); gtk_label_set_text (label,(const char*) line); } return TRUE; } static gboolean my_applet_fill (PanelApplet *applet, const gchar *iid, gpointer data){ FILE* fp; int pid; char line[160]; GtkWidget *label; fp = popen("~/scripts/allin1", "r"); fgets( line, sizeof line, fp); pclose(fp); label = gtk_label_new (line); gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (applet), label); g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT(applet), "button_press_event", G_CALLBACK (on_button_press), label); gtk_widget_show_all (GTK_WIDGET (applet)); return TRUE; } PANEL_APPLET_BONOBO_FACTORY ("OAFIID:my_applet_Factory", PANEL_TYPE_APPLET, "Conky Porting", "0", my_applet_fill, NULL); what i'm asking for is how could i refresh the label of the applet after a fixed period of time... (now the applets refresh when mouse-clicked) tnx in advance M@ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list