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marto1

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Registered: 2025-08-06

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Announcement: xfce plugin to make QR codes

Just a small announcement, I'm releasing a plugin for xfce4-panel that
deals specifically with making qr codes easily and quickly.

Overview of features it has so far:

   

• An easy to use plugin for xfce-panel that allows you to type text and generate QR codes on the fly.

   

• The side-by-side view allows the QR to be easy to capture by e.g. a phone.

   

• Adjustable guard for how much text can be written/inserted.

   

• Press Esc to close the plugin in addition to clicking away.

   

• Option to generate a new QR only when the QR image is clicked. Nice for slower PCs.

I've been testing it for a few months and it behaves great so far and fits my workflow perfectly.
Let me know if you see anything weird or you like it etc.

I want to implement some features in the future, but really keep it centered around QR codes:

• multiple types of qr codes.

• some QR personalization - logo in the middle etc.

• experiment with multi-QR arbitrary data transfers.

You can get prebuilt packages here: https://getmorepkgs.surge.sh/archive/xf … qr-plugin/

Source code: https://gitlab.xfce.org/marto1/xfce4-quickqr-plugin . Instructions to build in the README.