launch a specific panel

Fri Aug 21 15:20:12 CEST 2020

Hi André and Simon --

Thanks for the responses, sorry that I was unclear. Bottom line:
*
**I would like to able to use panel elements on the fluxbox side without 
disturbing the Xfce side config. *

The solution I was working on was to try to bypass the main panel-1 and 
just launch panel-2 (weather or any other plugin)--that may not be 
optimal I now see.

@André: I am considering a panel just for weather, and I have set that 
up successfully. But to get that it I needed to also have panel-1 and 
hide it.

@Simon: I looked at xfce4-panel-profiles in the past, but it did not 
seem to work across the two desktops and did not appear to back up our 
config. I'm not sure what it is looking for, but our MX Tweak 
accomplishes such a backup by exporting /.config/xfce4/panel  and ...xfconf.

That profiles app is not in Debian, as you probably know, but we had 
ported 1.0.9 to our repo; I have just asked our packagers to upgrade to 
the new release so that I can look again this weekend.

Thanks for getting back to me.

Jerry

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> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:36:13 -0300
> From: André Miranda <andre42m at gmail.com>
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> Hi Jerry,
> I don't understand what you want to accomplish. You said users could have
> two different panels, one is xfce4-panel and the other is from fluxbox. You
> also said that you want to use weather-plugin, presumably in xfce4-panel,
> now I can't follow what's the problem here, do you what a panel just for
> weather-plugin, or do you want it to be hidden and just show up when a
> command is executed?
>
> Cheers,
> Andre Miranda
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jerry Bond <stormyjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Devs --
>>
>> I am the Lead for MX Fluxbox, which ships now with MX Linux as a "fully
>> integrated overlay" that makes use of underlying Xfce for the desktop
>> environment. It would provide exciting possibilities for a user to be able
>> to set up two different panels, one for Xfce and the other for Fluxbox--or
>> for that matter, one for Business and the other for Personal use.
>>
>> The specific scenario that leads to this email: weather. Your brilliant
>> xfce4-weather-plugin is by far the easiest, fastest, most robust and most
>> versatile way to have access to weather conditions and forecast. I would
>> like to be able to use it, but at the moment all I can see is to create a
>> second panel and use it with the first one autohidden. Neither elegant nor
>> finally very practical. In my scenario would like to be able to launch the
>> weather panel, say:
>>
>> *xfce4-panel --panel-2*
>>
>> or if aliases were possible:
>>
>> *xfce4-panel --weather*
>>
>> So my question: is there an existing mechanism that I could make use of?
>>
>> Thanks for reading.
>>
>> Jerry Bond
>> MX Linux Project Manager
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:48:48 +0200
> From: Simon Steinbeiss <simon at xfce.org>
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> Subject: Re: launch a specific panel
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> Hi Jerry,
>
> I'm in the same boat as André, but if you really want to look into
> something like this then I guess using something like xfce4-panel-profiles
> to re/store panel settings/profiles from the commandline (implies you have
> to also restart the panel in such a script) would be one way to go...
>
> But yeah, what André said :)
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:36 PM André Miranda <andre42m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jerry,
>> I don't understand what you want to accomplish. You said users could have
>> two different panels, one is xfce4-panel and the other is from fluxbox. You
>> also said that you want to use weather-plugin, presumably in xfce4-panel,
>> now I can't follow what's the problem here, do you what a panel just for
>> weather-plugin, or do you want it to be hidden and just show up when a
>> command is executed?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre Miranda
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jerry Bond <stormyjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Devs --
>>>
>>> I am the Lead for MX Fluxbox, which ships now with MX Linux as a "fully
>>> integrated overlay" that makes use of underlying Xfce for the desktop
>>> environment. It would provide exciting possibilities for a user to be able
>>> to set up two different panels, one for Xfce and the other for Fluxbox--or
>>> for that matter, one for Business and the other for Personal use.
>>>
>>> The specific scenario that leads to this email: weather. Your brilliant
>>> xfce4-weather-plugin is by far the easiest, fastest, most robust and most
>>> versatile way to have access to weather conditions and forecast. I would
>>> like to be able to use it, but at the moment all I can see is to create a
>>> second panel and use it with the first one autohidden. Neither elegant nor
>>> finally very practical. In my scenario would like to be able to launch the
>>> weather panel, say:
>>>
>>> *xfce4-panel --panel-2*
>>>
>>> or if aliases were possible:
>>>
>>> *xfce4-panel --weather*
>>>
>>> So my question: is there an existing mechanism that I could make use of?
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading.
>>>
>>> Jerry Bond
>>> MX Linux Project Manager
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xfce4-dev mailing list
>>> Xfce4-dev at xfce.org
>>> https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev
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>> Xfce4-dev at xfce.org
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