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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 4.20.4 released (2025/03/23 09:22)
    xfce4-panel 4.20.4 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.20/xfce4-panel-4.20.4.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.20/xfce4-panel-4.20.4.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.20/xfce4-panel-4.20.4.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-panel? ==================== Xfce's panel. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start Release notes for 4.20.4 ======================== - meson-build: Revert glib version change - build: Define xfce4 min version >= 4.18 - build: Search for xdt-gen-visibility also in the working tree - build: Replace xdt-csource with glib-compile-resources - build: Fix wrong macro for min version - panel: Show window in panel_application_new_window() - wayland: autohide: Mitigate lack of size_allocate() - systray: Use correct gtk functions to show/hide items - wayland: Set exclusive zone for autohide window - build: Remove libxfce4panel-config.h from GI - meson-build: Add missing check for sys/prctl.h - tasklist: Support window app changes - build: Automate copyright year management - item-dialog: Also search for plugins by their module name - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - wayland: wrapper: Set GtkProgressBar style properties to min values - systray: Fix legacy icons being drawn with offset - meson-build: Use SPDX license expression - autotools-build: Check for xfce4-dev-tools in configure.ac - 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, Venetian, Vietnamese

Previous Releases

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Source Code Repository

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel

Reporting Bugs

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