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
- Getting Started – Starting the Xfce Panel for the first time
- Add New Items – Add new plugins to the Xfce Panel
- Preferences – Configure the Xfce Panel
- Customize the Xfce menu – Customize menu entries
- Theming – Styling the Xfce Panel
Internal Plugins
- Action Buttons – Adds system action buttons to the panel
- Applications Menu – Adds a menu containing categories of installed applications
- Clock – What time is it? – a clock plugin for the panel.
- Directory Menu – Show a directory tree in a menu
- Launcher – Program launcher with optional menu
- Notification Area – Area where notification icons appear
- Separator – Adds a separator or space between panel plugins
- Show Desktop – Hide all windows and show the desktop
- Window Buttons – Switch between open windows using buttons
- Window Menu – Switch between open windows using a menu
- Workspace Switcher – Switch between virtual desktops
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.
Advanced
- Debugging – Debugging plugins and the panel
Required Packages
Latest Release
- xfce4-panel 4.21.3 released (2026/10/09 23:28)xfce4-panel 4.21.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.21/xfce4-panel-4.21.3.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.21/xfce4-panel-4.21.3.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.21/xfce4-panel-4.21.3.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-panel? ==================== Xfce's panel. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start Release notes for 4.21.3 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Add an xfce4-panel desktop file - Use XfceSessionClient instead of XfceSMClient - Make "Keep Below" option Wayland exclusive - systray: Avoid crash when bus_name contains garbage - wayland: Set layer-shell namespace - wayland: Restart panel when gtk-layer-shell is in unrecoverable state - Use XfwMonitor to match monitor by name - Refactor XfwScreen management a bit - clock: Deduce update interval from date and time formats - gobject-linter: Fix use_g_source_once - gobject-linter: Fix unnecessary_null_check - gobject-linter: Fix use_clear_functions - gobject-linter: Fix use_explicit_default_flags - Set translation domain for plugins - showdesktop: Add show-tooltip preference - Remove G_GNUC_CONST - libxfce4panel: Do not emit signals if construct() has not been called - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - libxfce4panel: Add generic plugin class and generic name class - Translation Updates: Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Lao, Lithuanian, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uyghur
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