Xfce Panel Profiles
Introduction
Xfce Panel Profiles (xfce4-panel-profiles, formerly known as xfpanel-switch) is a simple application to manage Xfce panel layouts.
With the modular Xfce Panel, a multitude of panel layouts can be created. This tool makes it possible to backup, restore, import, and export these panel layouts.
Usage
Panel profiles main window shows a two columns table: on the left there is the configuration's name, at the right the last modification time. The first entry is always the current configuration, all other entries are custom user profiles or provided by the operating system by default.
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To perform any actions, you need to first select the configuration that you want to consider. Then you can select a button on the bottom bar. The available tasks, from the left to right are:
- Apply a configuration
- You can apply the selected configuration, if you click Apply button. It will be instantly applied to the panel. The old current configuration will be lost if you apply a different configuration. Make a backup before doing this!
- Save a configuration
- You can make a backup of the selected configuration, if you click Save button. It will open a dialog, you can insert a name for the copied configuration.
Custom saved configurations are stored usually in
~/.local/share/xfce4-panel-profiles. - Remove a configuration
- You can remove the selected configuration, if is possible, if you click Remove button.
Removed configurations cannot be restored!
- Export a configuration
- You can export the selected configuration if you click Export button. It will open a file chooser dialog to allow you to insert the file name and position.
- Import a configuration
- You can import a previously exported configuration if you click Import button. It will open a file chooser dialog to allow you to select the configuration you want to import.
Command line usage
Panel profiles provides two command line options that allow you to load and activate a panel profile or save the current configuration.
xfce4-panel-profiles <load|save> <file>
If you launch xfce4-panel-profiles without any available options, it launches the graphical user interface.
Examples
Save current configuration to current-config.tar.bz2:
xfce4-panel-profiles save current-config.tar.bz2
Load and apply previously saved configuration:
xfce4-panel-profiles load current-config.tar.bz2
Required Packages
- xfce4-panel
- python3
- python3-gi (>= 3.0)
Latest Release
- xfce4-panel-profiles 1.0.14 released (2023/06/05 09:04)xfce4-panel-profiles 1.0.14 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles/1.0/xfce4-panel-profiles-1.0.14.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles/1.0/xfce4-panel-profiles-1.0.14.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles/1.0/xfce4-panel-profiles-1.0.14.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-panel-profiles? ============================= With the modular Xfce Panel, a multitude of panel layouts can be created. This tool makes it possible to backup, restore, import, and export these panel layouts. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles/start Release notes for 1.0.14 ======================== - Save and restore rc-files - Add keywords to .desktop file (Fixes #9) - Properly filter filenames on startup - Ensure unique profile name and consistent filename - Pass correct length to GLib.KeyFile.load_from_data() (Fixes #20) - Open panel prefs dialog also on delete-event (Fixes #42) - configure: Use shell builtins instead of sed - Add missing translatable flags - Fix translations when $prefix != /usr - Add Unity layout - Use get_user_config_dir instead of get_home_dir (Fixes #38) - Show errors before saving profile to file - Show errors before saving profile to file - Ignore corrupted desktop-files on store Ignore empty launchers on store - Set correct desktop file name for translations - Makefile.in.in: Pass arguments to tar to make build reproducible regardless of user or umask - removed extra created link in makefile(#10) - Translation Updates: Albanian, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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