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1 xfce4-panel 2 =========== 3 4 Description 5 ----------- 6 7 When xfce4 tools are on the system anyway, it might make sense to try `xfce4-panel` in dwm. 8 9 This patch modifies dwm, so that it treats any window with name `xfce4-panel` (default) 10 as a status bar, i.e.: 11 12 - it never has borders 13 - always has y=0 on the monitor it is shown at (see below) 14 - it is never shown as active window in the tag indicators 15 - it is shown on all tags (via a tag rule in the config) 16 - it is ignored on `focusstack` (MOD+j / MOD+k) 17 18  19 20 - The panel does also act as **systray** for third party tools 21 - Looks best when background is set to same color as the dwm statusline (black in the example) 22 - Using a compositor you can dimm or completely hide it, when not hovered 23 24 The patch has been created against dwm6.3 but will apply on 6.2 as well. 25 26 Download 27 -------- 28 29 * [dwm-xfce4-panel-20220306-d39e2f3.diff](dwm-xfce4-panel-20220306-d39e2f3.diff) (2022-03-06) 30 31 * Older version(s): 32 33 - [dwm-xfce4-panel-20210701-67d76bd.diff](dwm-xfce4-panel-20210701-67d76bd.diff) (2021-07-01) 34 35 Notes 36 ----- 37 38 - The workspace switcher won't work interactively, but dwm's interactive tag indicators remain on 39 the left anyway. 40 - Some actions in the "session menu" applet (the one with your name as title) won't work out of the 41 box. You might supply your own sub menu or modify the actions of the existing one. 42 - The rest of xfce4's 40 or so panel apps _should_ work (if installed) and also custom "applets" 43 (see below) are working 44 - Startup: A start via xinitrc should be fine. I use the [autostart](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/autostart/) patch to start in background: 45 46 sleep 0.3 47 xfce4-panel --disable-wm-check 48 49 50 Panel Config 51 ------------ 52 53 **dwm** 54 55 In dwm `config.h` rules, the panel should be configured to be shown on all tags and floating - see the patch. 56 57 **xfce4-panel** 58 59 You can inspect and set attributes in the command line via `xconf-query` (you could also do it via 60 right mouse click and go to panel settings). 61 62 Here are *all* settings as I have it: 63 64 ~ ❯ xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1 -lv 65 /panels/panel-1/autohide-behavior 0 66 /panels/panel-1/background-alpha 1 67 /panels/panel-1/background-rgba <<UNSUPPORTED>> 68 /panels/panel-1/background-style 1 69 /panels/panel-1/disable-struts true 70 /panels/panel-1/enter-opacity 100 71 /panels/panel-1/icon-size 0 72 /panels/panel-1/leave-opacity 45 73 /panels/panel-1/length 5 74 /panels/panel-1/length-adjust true 75 /panels/panel-1/nrows 1 76 /panels/panel-1/output-name Primary 77 /panels/panel-1/plugin-ids <<UNSUPPORTED>> 78 /panels/panel-1/position p=0;x=5000;y=0 79 /panels/panel-1/position-locked true 80 /panels/panel-1/size 21 81 /panels/panel-1/span-monitors false 82 83 Discussion: 84 85 - `position`: Configure the position to be at `y=0` and `x=<a big number>` to get a panel top right 86 (it will *use* the maximum possible x). See [here](https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12149) for more on that. 87 xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/position -s 'p=0;x=5000;y=0' # -s: Set a value 88 - `leave-opacity`: Requires a compositor like picom. Set it to 0 to completely hide the panel when 89 not hovered. 90 - `size`: 21 matches the height of dwm status bar 91 - `output-name`: Set to "Primary" instead of a fixed display name, in order to have support for 92 multi monitor layouts. 93 94 **Multi Monitor Support** 95 96 I recommend using 97 98 - [`arandr`](https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/) to *create* a new layout 99 - [`autorandr`](https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr) to store and *apply* a layout automatically after 100 state changes (via `autorandr -c`). This also supports hooks after switching. 101 102 --- 103 104 Below is a usage example for adding your own information into the panel. 105 106 107 Optional: Using the `genmon` Applet 108 ----------------------------------- 109 110 Most panels offer the possibility to include generic scripts output. 111 In `xfce4-panel` this is done by the panel item: "Generic Monitor" (genmon). It features output styled with pango markup and mouseover/onclick hooks. 112 113 Here are some `genmon` script collections: 114 - [xfce4-genmon-scripts](https://awesomeopensource.com/project/xtonousou/xfce4-genmon-scripts) 115 - [xfce4-genmon-scripts-2](https://github.com/almaceleste/xfce4-genmon-scripts) 116 - [xfce4-genmon-scripts-3](https://github.com/levimake/xfce4-genmon-panel-scripts) 117 118 Manual is [here](https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin/start#usage). 119 120 Personally I wanted to have CPU monitor, which shows the name of current high cpu eater(s) if present (next to current load by core) and on mouseover remembers the top output from the most recent high load situation in the past: 121 122  123 124 To get that, I cat the content of a file generated by this script, started in `autostart.sh` in the background: 125 [cpu_mon.py](cpu_mon.py). 126 127 128 Author 129 ------- 130 * Gunther Klessinger <gklessinger[at]gmx.de> 131 132