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xfce4-panel - Xfce Panel

The Xfce Panel is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment and features application launchers, panel menus, a workspace switcher and more. Many aspects of the panel can be configured through the GUI, but also by GTK+ style properties and hidden Xfconf settings.


General


Internal Plugins

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External Plugins

  • Battery – A battery monitor panel plugin for Xfce4 compatible with APM and ACPI, for Linux and *BSD.
  • Calculator – a calculator plugin for the Xfce4 panel.
  • Clipman – A clipboard manager for Xfce
  • Cpufreq – shows information about the CPU governor and frequencies supported and used by your system.
  • Cpugraph – offers multiple display modes (LED, gradient, fire, etc…) to show the current CPU load of the system.
  • Datetime – shows the date and time in the panel, and a calendar appears when you left-click on it.
  • Diskperf – displays instant disk/partition performance (bytes transferred per second).
  • Embed – Embed arbitrary application windows into the panel.
  • Eyes – Eyes that spy on you.
  • Fsguard – checks the chosen mountpoint for free disk space.
  • Genmon – spawns the indicated script/program, captures its output (stdout) and displays the resulting string into the panel.
  • Indicator – small plugin written by Mark Trompell to display information from various applications consistently.
  • Mailwatch – multi-threaded, multi-mailbox, multi-protocol plugin for checking mails periodically.
  • Mount – a mount/umount utility for the panel.
  • Mpc – client plugin for MPD, the Music Player Daemon
  • Netload – displays the current load of the network interfaces, currently works on Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris, HP_UX and MacOS X.
  • Notes – provides sticky notes for your desktop.
  • Places – a menu with quick access to folders, documents, and removable media.
  • PulseAudio Plugin – Adjust audio volume and control media players on the Xfce desktop
  • Sample – Sample plugin developers can use as a base for new panel-plugins
  • Sensors – a hardware sensors plugin for the panel.
  • Smartbookmark – allows you to do a search directly on Internet on sites like google or debian bugzilla.
  • Statusnotifier – provides a panel area for status notifier items (application indicators).
  • Stopwatch – Keep track of elapsed time.
  • Systemload – Displays the current CPU load, the memory in use, the swap space and the system uptime.
  • Timer – Lets the user run an alarm at a specified time or at the end of a specified countdown period.
  • Time-out – for taking breaks from the computer every X minutes.
  • Verve – A comfortable command line plugin for the Xfce panel.
  • Wavelan – Display stats from a wireless lan interface (signal state, signal quality, network name (SSID)). It supports NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux.
  • Weather – Shows the current temperature and weather condition, using weather data provided by xoap.weather.com.
  • Whiskermenu – A menu that provides access to favorites, recently used, and searching installed applications.
  • Xkb – Setup and use multiple (currently up to 4 due to X11 protocol limitation) keyboard layouts.

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Advanced

  • Debugging – Debugging plugins and the panel

Required Packages

For specific information on the minimum required versions, check configure.ac.in


Latest Release

  • xfce4-panel 4.19.5 released (2024/10/07 12:08)
    xfce4-panel 4.19.5 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.19/xfce4-panel-4.19.5.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.19/xfce4-panel-4.19.5.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.19/xfce4-panel-4.19.5.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-panel? ==================== Xfce's panel. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start Release notes for 4.19.5 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Use new xfw_window_activate() signature in libwindowing 4.19.6 - build: Adjust Wayland requirements for Xfce 4.20 - build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.20 - wayland: tasklist: Fix monitor detection when panel is remapped - x11: tasklist: Properly check for libxext - wayland: autohide: Do not block when panel has input focus - Revert "panel: Fix panel flickering during autohide on Wayland" - wayland: autohide: Show/hide panel instead of moving it offscreen - autohide: Show/hide autohide window instead of moving it offscreen - wayland: Avoid allocation loop when the panel is anchored to an edge - Revert "wayland: Avoid allocation loop when the panel is anchored to an edge" - wayland: Avoid allocation loop when the panel is anchored to an edge - Fix gtk-layer-shell includes - Switch to XfwMonitor - wayland: wrapper: Prevent plugin allocation blocking - tasklist: Connect to XfwWindow::notify::monitors - panel: Fix panel flickering during autohide on Wayland - Always set gtk_layer_shell monitor on change - Add debug key for PANEL_DEBUG_ACTIONS - tasklist: Fix Wayland window drag and drop - panel: Do not remove plugin when disregarding restart dialog - panel: Replace remaining gtk_message_dialog_new with xfce_message_dialog_new - common: Introduce panel_utils_gtk_dialog_find_label_by_text - tasklist: Use xfce_dialog_show_error when starting new instance fails - actions: Use xfce_message_dialog_new in confirmation dialogs - panel, libxfce4panel: Use xfce_dialog_confirm in plugin removal confirmation - gcc-analyzer: Add false positive file - scan-build: Add false positive file - scan-build: tasklist: Fix core.NullDereference - Revert "Add new CI builds to build without X11 and Wayland" - Apply .clang-format file - Remove unnecessary dirname in local includes - clang-format: Use IncludeBlocks::Regroup - build: Add missing CFLAGS and LIBS from gio-unix-2.0 - build: Add missing math.h includes - build: Silence -Wstring-plus-int from clang - fix build on OpenBSD after 0c56766b - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Panjabi (Punjabi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese

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