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antfarmer

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Registered: 2018-01-07

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Manage panel items using command line

Hello!
What i`m trying to do is to figure out a way to remove and then re-add an external item to the XFCE panel using the command line (specifically, the Whisker menu in Xubuntu).

I need it as something to do at boot for the purpose of quick and dirty workaround for this bug, since i`m using Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, which is EOL for XFCE and i`m stuck with this version of xfce4-panel.

Is there a way to use xfconf-query for that?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,492

Re: Manage panel items using command line

Hello!

Hello and welcome.

since i`m using Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, which is EOL for XFCE and i`m stuck with this version of xfce4-panel.

Is there no way to upgrade to a supported version where the bug is fixed? That is the easiest fix.

Is there a way to use xfconf-query for that?

Unfortunately, xfconf-query does not support individual element array manipulation. To remove the whiskermenu you would need to remove it's ID from the plugin-ids array of the panel to which it belongs and delete it's tree entry. Deleting the tree entry is simple enough, but xfconf-query does not provide the ability to easily manipulate the plugin-ids array. You would need to create a wrapper script to delete and rebuild the plugin-ids array with whiskermenu's key removed.

Here are a couple of similar-type threads which deal with programmatic solutions to manipulating the array. Not exactly what you are looking for, but perhaps the information is useful:
- https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8619
- https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11117

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