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xfce4-notes-plugin - Notes
Ideal for your quick notes
The notes plugin provides you a quick way to write down a todo list, to paste a piece of code, to leave a note to your friend, or whatever else you had like to do with a Post-It note.
Original Author: Mike Massonnet
Blog: http://blog.mmassonnet.info/search/label/notes
Usage
Some Tips
Notes are saved under $XDG_DATA_HOME/notes/ — $XDG_DATA_HOME is an environment variable defined by the XDG base directory specification and defaults to $HOME/.local/share.
Window Manager Hint: You probably want to uncheck the option “Skip windows that have skip pager or skip taskbar properties set” of Xfwm4 (Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Cycling). The reason is that the notes plugin sets the skip pager hint so it doesn't clutter your pager, but you still want to access your notes by cycling to them with Alt+Tab.
Examples
___Todo_list___ ☑ Show an example ☑ Show some UTF8 codes ☐ Release a new version ___Random_thoughts___ ☐ Add bold/italic/… style ☐ Hope this gives you some ideas ___UTF8_codes___ Type Ctrl+Shift+u in GTK+ applications — 2014 “ 201C ” 201D ‣ 2023 … 2026 ⁂ 2042 ☐ 2610 ☑ 2611
Screenshots
Required Packages
- unique 1.0
For detailed information on the minimum required versions, check the configure.ac.in file.
Latest Release
- xfce4-notes-plugin 1.12.0 released (2025/05/20 10:10)xfce4-notes-plugin 1.12.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/1.12/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.12.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/1.12/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.12.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/1.12/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.12.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-notes-plugin? =========================== Xfce4 Notes Plugin provides a quick way to paste text, to write down a list of things, to leave a note to a friend, or whatever is common to do with Post-It's. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin Release notes for 1.12.0 ======================== Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - meson-build: Use shared_module() - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - build: Automate copyright year management - Add meson build - Translation Updates: Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Occitan (post 1500), Turkish, Ukrainian
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