What panels can be used for compiz-standalone ?

shak · 2010-11-22 19:21:53

Hi guys !

I was wondering what panels can be used with compiz-standalone .

For example i know that tin2 can be used but what about gnome panel , kde panel , or xfce4 panel ?

Thanks a lot for your help

Nagian · 2010-11-22 20:14:43

I have used also tint2, because it's really a great panel. Less people would use one of your listened panels, as they are part of a big DE, so you have to install many dependencies. If you like one of these panels its imho better to use the full DE.

hume's doona · 2010-11-22 20:21:36

Nagian wrote:

I have used also tint2, because it's really a great panel. Less people would use one of your listened panels, as they are part of a big DE, so you have to install many dependencies. If you like one of these panels its imho better to use the full DE.

I'd agree with this, xfce panel depends on gnome-panel to handle some of it's fancier stuff, which in turn depends on a bunch of gnome stuff

Have you considered docky? You can set it to panel mode, has minimal dependencies and is pretty solid.

Deskmenu is also handy in place of the kicker menus etc

edit or dmenu for that matter

Last edited by hume's doona (2010-11-22 20:21:55)

thestinger · 2010-11-23 00:06:52

hume's doona wrote:

Nagian wrote:
I have used also tint2, because it's really a great panel. Less people would use one of your listened panels, as they are part of a big DE, so you have to install many dependencies. If you like one of these panels its imho better to use the full DE.
I'd agree with this, xfce panel depends on gnome-panel to handle some of it's fancier stuff, which in turn depends on a bunch of gnome stuff
Have you considered docky? You can set it to panel mode, has minimal dependencies and is pretty solid.
Deskmenu is also handy in place of the kicker menus etc
edit or dmenu for that matter

Docky is nice, but it definitely doesn't have minimal dependencies, and it's written in C# so you have to have mono running too.

thestinger@arch i ~ % p -S docky
Password: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (57): libexif-0.6.19-1 [0.60 MB]  libgdiplus-2.8.1-1 [0.19 MB]  mono-2.8.1-1 [30.98 MB]
              gtk-sharp-2-2.12.10-1 [2.63 MB]  libgnome-keyring-2.32.0-1 [0.08 MB]  libart-lgpl-2.3.21-1 [0.07 MB]
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Total Download Size:    55.75 MB
Total Installed Size:   351.18 MB

It even brings in HAL...

pogeymanz · 2010-11-23 01:56:25

xfce4-panel is good and has few dependencies. (Why the heck would it depend on gnome-panel??)

Also, AWN is very nice, but a little memory hungry compared to xfce4-panel or tint2

Allan · 2010-11-23 01:58:00

pogeymanz wrote:

xfce4-panel is good and has few dependencies. (Why the heck would it depend on gnome-panel??)

I think it needs it if you want to use gnome applets on the panel...

pogeymanz · 2010-11-23 14:13:36

Allan wrote:

pogeymanz wrote:
xfce4-panel is good and has few dependencies. (Why the heck would it depend on gnome-panel??)
I think it needs it if you want to use gnome applets on the panel...

Well that makes sense, I suppose. However, I would probably just use gnome-panel if I really wanted a gnome-panel plugin...

bhante · 2010-11-29 16:48:04

bmpanel2

http://code.google.com/p/bmpanel2/

shemz · 2010-11-29 19:30:14

+1 for xfce panel. but why not replace the native wm by compiz inside the DE if you plan to use a DE specific panel anyway (as the panel would bring in DE deps with it)? xfce is again a good choice then. btw another worth-a-mention lightweight option is lxpanel.

darkbeanies · 2010-11-29 20:34:33

I use awn at the moment with compiz. It has a great panel mode, functioning systray and bouncy icons, and even though half the applets don't work, you can replace them with standalone programs that do (like, you can replace the volume control with pyvolwheel)

Also, you can use it with gnomenu, which gives you a nice main menu. Even if you don't use this though, you're gonna be bringing in a bunch of dependencies. But I gave up caring about that.

Cairo-dock has quite a nice panel mode too, but the systray sucks so I got rid of that.

Tux the penguin · 2010-11-30 00:53:28

You should try lxpanel, as shemz said. It's lightweight and has few dependencies. Also, if you are using compiz as a standalone, you could install other lxde tools such as lxappearance, lxnm (network manager), lxtask, lxmenu and pcmanfm. Xfce panel if you don't use the gnome-applets.
There's also engage from e17 , though it might be hard for you to get your hands on without the rest of e17. You could use e17 with ecomorph for a lightweight desktop with compiz-like effects.

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