xfce4-panel - Action Buttons

The Action Buttons panel plugin adds system action buttons to your panel. These actions include session management options such as locking the screen, logging out or switching the user, or options to hibernate, suspend, restart or shutdown your computer.

The plugin uses xfce4-session to handle power actions, so it won't function properly if you use another or no session manager.

Preferences

Action Buttons Preferences

General

Appearance

Action Buttons: Adds buttons directly to the panel.
Session Menu: Nests options under a session menu on the panel, displays them as a drop-down menu.

Invert buttons orientation

Changes the direction that the buttons are placed in.

Show confirmation dialogue

Shows a confirmation dialogue when an action is performed.

Actions

Lock Screen: Locks your screen.
Switch User: Allows you to switch to a different user
Suspend: Saves the session to RAM and sleeps the computer for quick start-ups.
Hibernate: Saves the session to disk and shuts down the system for slightly faster start-ups. Will be grayed out if not supported by OS.
Hybrid Sleep: Saves the session to RAM and disk, allowing for quick start-ups but in the event of losing power, your session is still saved. Will be grayed out if not supported by OS.
Shut Down: Completely powers down the system
Restart: Reboots the system
Log Out...: Displays the Log Out prompt, allowing you to choose an action while logging out of your current session.
Log Out: Logs the current user out
Separator: Adds a separator to the buttons or drop-down menu

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