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I like running a minimal environment, and typically do most of my work from command line.
(Hey I grew up with command line UNIX!)
For a long time I also ran the Gnome panel, and Nautilus (no desktop) without running a full gnome session. Just to do quick file moves and manipulation and application launching.
Things were great, simple and useful.
Now Gnome 3 has come alone and the gnome-panel is useless and nautilus has changed. YUCK!!!!!
So I started to shop around for a replacement panel, and settled on Xfce4-panel, with Thunar.
Launching Xfce4-panel on its own works, one time after a reboot, but after I logout and log back it it 'resets' all its configuration back to a single blank panel again!
Does anyone run just the Xfce4-panel on its own?
Can it be run without needing a "session manager"?
Any other suggestions?
I tried lxpanel but I can't get it to use larger icons in a side panel, and it looks plain silly with tiny launch buttons on the side of a huge screen. It is also not as configurable at Xfce4-panel.
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Did you check the config files in .config/lxpanel/ ? I used to set iconsize there for lxpanel on my 32" TV.
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Did you check the config files in .config/lxpanel/ ? I used to set iconsize there for lxpanel on my 32" TV.
I didn't spot that per-panel configuration option, and I looked hard for it.
It works too. Thank you -- the small icons a side lxpanel drive me batty, and I thought it strange I could not get it to use a larger image!
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Tint2 is nice too.
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I believe xfce4-panel can run without a session manager, yes. I do use it and don't have xfce4-session (or a replacement) installed.
Not sure why your settings/panel layout wouldn't be saved though, never had any such problems. If I'm not mistaken it is/should be saved in ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml
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You should be able to run xfce4-panel on its own, i was running it for a while with standalone compiz. Also, if you like the old gnome-panel, you can still run mate-panel from the aur, or add the repos for mate(you can find them in mate's article on the wiki) if you don't feel like compiling stuff from the aur, because it has some mate dependencies.
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The xfce4-panel information is saved, and if I reboot and run it it works. But if I then logout and log back it everything gets wiped!
I think I kill something I probably shouldn't when I logout, but I have no idea what.
I still like xfce4-panel better than lxpanel (better configuration of launchers and interfaces well with thunar) but it complaints about no SESSION_MANAGER and it's wiping of the panel configuration is becoming most annoying.
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Looks at tint2. But is is single panel and bottom of display only.
I prefer my main panel to be on the left as these new modern displays are so wide (for movies) that vertical space becomes a premium (for terminals and image work space.
I can't imagine why everyone wants top and bottom panels!
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tint2 (tint2-svn) from AUR is more versatile and can be placed on the sides as well.
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