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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.

Panel

Internal Plugins

External Plugins

  • Panel Plugins – A list of xfce4-panel plugins (goodies.xfce.org)
  • Battery Plugin – A battery monitor panel plugin for Xfce4 compatible with APM and ACPI, for Linux and *BSD.
  • Clipman – A clipboard manager for Xfce
  • Cpufreq Plugin – shows information about the CPU governor and frequencies supported and used by your system.
  • Cpugraph Plugin – offers multiple display modes (LED, gradient, fire, etc…) to show the current CPU load of the system.
  • Datetime Plugin – shows the date and time in the panel, and a calendar appears when you left-click on it.
  • Diskperf Plugin – displays instant disk/partition performance (bytes transferred per second).
  • Embed Plugin – Embed arbitrary application windows into the panel.
  • Eyes Plugin – Eyes that spy on you.
  • Fsguard Plugin – checks the chosen mountpoint for free disk space.
  • Genmon Plugin – spawns the indicated script/program, captures its output (stdout) and displays the resulting string into the panel.
  • Indicator Plugin – small plugin written by Mark Trompell to display information from various applications consistently.
  • Mailwatch Plugin – multi-threaded, multi-mailbox, multi-protocol plugin for checking mails periodically.
  • Mount Plugin – a mount/umount utility for the panel.
  • Mpc Plugin – client plugin for MPD, the Music Player Daemon
  • Netload Plugin – displays the current load of the network interfaces, currently works on Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris, HP_UX and MacOS X.
  • Notes Plugin – provides sticky notes for your desktop.
  • Places Plugin – a menu with quick access to folders, documents, and removable media.
  • PulseAudio Plugin – Adjust audio volume and control media players on the Xfce desktop
  • Sensors Plugin – a hardware sensors plugin for the panel.
  • Smartbookmark Plugin – allows you to do a search directly on Internet on sites like google or debian bugzilla.
  • Statusnotifier Plugin – provides a panel area for status notifier items (application indicators).
  • Stopwatch Plugin – Keep track of elapsed time.
  • Systemload-plugin – Displays the current CPU load, the memory in use, the swap space and the system uptime.
  • Timer Plugin – Lets the user run an alarm at a specified time or at the end of a specified countdown period.
  • Time-out Plugin – for taking breaks from the computer every X minutes.
  • Verve Plugin – A comfortable command line plugin for the Xfce panel.
  • Wavelan Plugin – Display stats from a wireless lan interface (signal state, signal quality, network name (SSID)). It supports NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux.
  • Weather Plugin – Shows the current temperature and weather condition, using weather data provided by xoap.weather.com.
  • Whiskermenu Plugin – A menu that provides access to favorites, recently used, and searching installed applications.
  • Xkb Plugin – Setup and use multiple (currently up to 4 due to X11 protocol limitation) keyboard layouts.

Advanced

  • Debugging – Debugging plugins and the panel

Reporting Bugs