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
• External Plugins
• Advanced - Debugging Xfce Panel
• Required Packages
• Latest Release
• Source Code Repository
• Reporting Bugs

• 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

• 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

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• 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).
• Docklike – A modern, minimalist taskbar for Xfce.
• Embed – Embed arbitrary application windows into the panel.
• Eyes – Eyes that spy on you.
• Fsguard – checks the chosen mountpoint for free disk space.
• Generic Slider – A visual slider widget to control user-configurable variables(e.g. volume control)
• 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.
• Windowck – Place the maximized window title and windows buttons on the panel.
• Xkb – Setup and use multiple (currently up to 4 due to X11 protocol limitation) keyboard layouts.

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• Debugging – Debugging plugins and the panel

• exo
• garcon
• GLib
• GTK
• libxfce4ui
• libxfce4util
• libwnck
• xfconf

For specific information on the minimum required versions, check configure.ac.in

• xfce4-panel 4.19.6 released (2024/11/01 14:55)

Read the CHANGELOG

• Download current release (link also contains older versions)

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

• Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs

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