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xfce4-places-plugin - Places
Originally written by Diego Ongaro, this plugin is a menu with quick access to folders, documents, and removable media. The places plugin brings much of the functionality of GNOME's Places menu to Xfce.
Introduction
The plugin puts a simple button on the panel. Clicking on this button opens up a menu with the following:
- System-defined directories (home folder, trash, desktop, file system)
- Removable media (using thunar-vfs)
- User-defined bookmarks (reads
~/.gtk-bookmarks) - Search program launcher (optional)
- Recent documents submenu (requires GTK+ v2.10 or greater)
Usage
Just add it to the panel.
User-defined bookmarks can be modified with a file manager or by manually editing ~/.gtk-bookmarks.
You can configure the plugin by right-clicking on the button and selecting Properties (see screenshot below).
Screenshots
For this screenshot, I plugged in my IPOD:
Here, I've clicked on the IPOD menu item and am about to mount it:
You can see the recent documents in this screenshot (taken with my IPOD unplugged):
Here's what it looks like when configured to display a label:
The search program launcher looks like this:
And the properties/preferences dialog:
Required Packages
xfce4-places-plugin
- gmodule-2.0
- gobject-2.0
- gthread-2.0
For concrete information on the minimum required versions, check configure.ac.in
Latest Release
- xfce4-places-plugin 1.9.0 released (2025/05/20 10:15)xfce4-places-plugin 1.9.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-places-plugin/1.9/xfce4-places-plugin-1.9.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-places-plugin/1.9/xfce4-places-plugin-1.9.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-places-plugin/1.9/xfce4-places-plugin-1.9.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-places-plugin? ============================ This plugin is a menu with quick access to folders, documents, and removable media. The places plugin brings much of the functionality of GNOME's Places menu to Xfce. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-places-plugin Release notes for 1.9.0 ======================= 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 - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - build: Require gio-unix-2.0 - build: Automate copyright year management - Add meson build - Add about dialog - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - Translation Updates: Albanian, Catalan, Greek, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Vietnamese
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