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jcornuz

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Registered: 2011-06-07

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[Solved] Using an xfce4-panel as screenlet container?

Hi everyone,

While playing around with xfce4 4.8, I realized that the panel includes (almost) all that is required to be used as a screenlet container (desklet, gadgets whatever you name it).

Create a new panel. Put it somewhere in the middle of your screen, make it biiiig, set alpha to 0, and lock the panel. Add a weather applet and Tadaa! you've got a screenlet Adding a "leave" opacity of 70% makes for a nice on mouse over effect. Obviously, weather and email notification jump to mind, but there must be other ideas to explore (pictures panel plugin, anyone?).

However, the panel for now stays on top, unless you use compiz and specify that you want Xfce4-panel to be "below" in windows rules. Now is this an intended usage of the 4.8 panel? Would there be an elegant way to specify that just one instance of the panel should always be below??

Thanks for your time

Joel

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Re: [Solved] Using an xfce4-panel as screenlet container?

No that's not the intention of the panel. Screenlets should run on the desktop layer, something not supported by Xfce (native) atm.

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jcornuz

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Registered: 2011-06-07

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Re: [Solved] Using an xfce4-panel as screenlet container?

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your answer. I just liked the idea / simplicity of reusing what already exists in XFCE4 without any aditionnal processes / dependancies

Take care,

Joel