launch a specific panel

Tue Aug 25 03:54:54 CEST 2020

Hi Jerry,
I'm still confused, by "fluxbox side" do you mean a fluxbox session where
xfce4-panel will also be present?
I didn't try, maybe creating a symlink from different folders (e.g.
~/.config/xfce4/panel-xfce and ~/.config/xfce4/panel-fluxbox) to
~/.config/xfce4/panel could accomplish what you need.

Cheers,
André Miranda

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:21 AM Jerry Bond <stormyjerry at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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> <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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> 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> <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> <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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