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Xfdashboard
Introduction
Short: Maybe a Gnome shell and macOS Expose like dashboard for Xfce
Longer: xfdashboard provides a GNOME shell dashboard and macOS Mission Control (Exposé and Spaces) like interface for use with the Xfce desktop. It can be configured to run with any keyboard shortcut and when executed provides an overview of applications currently open enabling the user to switch between different applications. The search feature works like Xfce's app finder which makes it convenient to search for and start applications.
Documentation
- xfdashboard manual - A quick'n'dirty guide to xfdashboard.
- xfdashboard settings - Documentation on setting stored in Xfconf by xfdashboard a
Required packages
- libwnck >= 2.30
- clutter >= 1.12
- glib >= 2.32
- gio >= 2.32
- gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.32
- xfconf >= 4.10.0
- garcon >= 0.2.0
- gtk+ >= 3.2
- libxfce4util >= 4.10.0
- libxfce4ui >= 4.10.0
… and the dependencies of these libraries of course ;)
The following libraries are semi-optional:
- dbus-glib >= 0.98 (required if xfconf < 4.13)
The following libraries are optional and configurable:
* libXcomposite >= 0.2 (for live windows) * libXdamage (for live windows) * libXinerama (for multi-monitor support)
On debian based distros, all requirements are installed with:
apt-get install xfce4-dev-tools build-essential glib2.0 libglib2.0-dev xorg-dev libwnck-3-dev libclutter-1.0-dev libgarcon-1-0-dev libxfconf-0-dev libxfce4util-dev libxfce4ui-2-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev libxinerama-dev
Releases
Stable
The latest stable version is version 0.6.1 released at 2016-12-22.
You can download the source tarball using the following links:
- bzip2 tarball: xfdashboard-0.6.1.tar.bz2
SHA256: ad5dcfe168e4d37e8e85910912f51cfb0ea229ff9863f6582f87b9431a90c2af
For older releases including development versions look at the release archive at the following link.
Development
The latest development version is version 0.7.7 released at 2019-12-03.
You can download the source tarball using the following links:
- bzip2 tarball: xfdashboard-0.7.7.tar.bz2
SHA256: ef45b7b879cf042a3cb1c727f108db2da991aa07aba4513692a74224d67422a4
Source code repository
The latest development version is hosted on Xfce Git. You can browse it using the web interface at the following URL:https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard
Here you find the documentation for theming and settings of the latest development version.
For older development releases or stable releases look at the release archive.
http://git.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/
Reporting Bugs
- Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs