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AMnesia

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Registered: 2026-06-10

Posts: 1

[Solved] Source code for the Workspace Switcher applet?

I'm running xfce4 under Debian 13, and it's working well.

I would like to make a small change to the Workspace Switcher, and I'd therefore like to build my own private version of that applet.

I've been looking for the source code for that Workspace Switcher applet, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere. Could someone point me to that applet's source code so I can build my own version?

The small change that I'd like to make is to totally disable all popup messages when I position the cursor over the Workspace Switcher. For example, I'd like "Click to switch to Workspace 2" and all other popups to never show up.

Thank you very much in advance.

UPDATE:

Added later 22 min 01 s:
Oh! Never mind! I fixed it. I just disabled all tooltips for the xfce4-panel by creating a file called $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with the following contents:

tooltip {
    opacity: 0;
}

Problem solved.

Last edited by AMnesia (2026-06-10 22:15:39)

eriefisher

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Re: [Solved] Source code for the Workspace Switcher applet?

https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-pa … gins/pager

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ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Source code for the Workspace Switcher applet?

UPDATE:

Added later 22 min 01 s:
Oh! Never mind! I fixed it. I just disabled all tooltips for the xfce4-panel by creating a file called $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with the following contents:

tooltip {
    opacity: 0;
}

Problem solved.

FYI. This will disable all GTK tooltips throughout the graphical interface - more than just xfce4-panel.

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