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xfce4-genmon-panel-scripts

With XFCE4, you can do rice your panels like they do in Polybar, i3wm etc. GenMon is a plugin from XFCE which helps you run bash scripts as a widget on the panel. By utilizing this widget, ricing the panel becomes real fun.

Panel Preview

Style 1

Style 2

Genmon Scripts

• App search (rofi)
• Window Title (Clicking on it opens rofi (onedark) window switcher)
• Minimize button
• Close button
• Clock
• Battery
• Power button
• Show desktop button
• Memory usage
• (A Todo-list with rofi is on the works)

Required add-ons

• xdotool (for the window title, minimize and close button's function to work)
• nerd-fonts

Additional Tweaks

• Custom CSS in gtk.css to add the background and rounded corners in the genmon plugins and workspace switcher from XFCE
• Copy the the required style (gtk_tx.css) and append to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
• Find the appropriate genmon widget ids using the GTK inspector

GTK_DEBUG = interactive xfce4-panel

• Using font icons as Workspace switcher names to add to the look

Using Genmon Scripts

• Download the Genmon scripts directory from this repo.
• Add an XFCE Genmon plugin
• Give the command as

bash \path\to\our\script\script.sh

• Hide the labels
• Set the update period for the plugin accordingly
• You are done setting up the plugins

Custom Font Icons

See Nerd Fonts

References

See xfce4-genmon-scripts by xtonousou

• xfce4-genmon css styling
• xfce4 genmon plugin usage - xfce4 docs