xfce4-panel-4.18.5

Introduction to Xfce4 Panel

The Xfce4 Panel package contains the Xfce4 Panel.

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Package Information

Xfce4 Panel Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.18.0, Exo-4.18.0, Garcon-4.18.1, and libwnck-43.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2 and libdbusmenu

Editor Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-panel

Installation of Xfce4 Panel

Install Xfce4 Panel by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: xfce4-panel, xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, xfce4-popup-directorymenu, and xfce4-popup-windowmenu
Installed Library: libxfce4panel-2.0.so
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel, /usr/include/xfce4/libxfce4panel-1.0, /usr/lib/xfce4/panel, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxfce4panel-1.0 and /usr/share/xfce4/panel

Short Descriptions

xfce4-panel

is the Xfce panel

xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu

is a shell script that uses D-Bus and Xfce Panel to display a popup menu of the installed applications

xfce4-popup-directorymenu

is a shell script that uses D-Bus and Xfce Panel to display a popup menu of your home folder and its subdirectories

xfce4-popup-windowmenu

is a shell script that uses DBus to display the Xfwm4 a popup menu

libxfce4panel-2.0.so

contains the Xfce Panel API functions