<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Jerry,</div><div>I'm still confused, by "fluxbox side" do you mean a fluxbox session where xfce4-panel will also be present?</div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>André Miranda<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:21 AM Jerry Bond <<a href="mailto:stormyjerry@gmail.com">stormyjerry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi André and Simon --<br>
<br>
Thanks for the responses, sorry that I was unclear. Bottom line: <br>
<b><br>
</b><b>I would like to able to use panel elements on the fluxbox
side without disturbing the Xfce side config. </b><br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
@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. <br>
<br>
@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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thanks for getting back to me.<br>
<br>
Jerry<br>
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From: André Miranda <a href="mailto:andre42m@gmail.com" target="_blank"><andre42m@gmail.com></a>
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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
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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
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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 <a href="mailto:stormyjerry@gmail.com" target="_blank"><stormyjerry@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>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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