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Taskbars >
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel
http://lxde.org/lxpanel/
A straightforward and capable taskbar.
I've used this for a long time, and it's done the job well. I just want something similar to Windows 95.
- Part of LXDE
- I used to use fbpanel, and switched to this because of some nu This is a fork of fbpanel, which I had use
Its clock uses strftime
- 2016-03-28 - 0.8.0 on Slackware 14.1
- 2016-03-26 - 0.6.1 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
- 2015-05-11 - 0.6.1 on Slax 7.0.8 x86_64
Earlier than 2010-04-20 - (version not recorded) on (operating systems not recorded)
- I had used this for a very long time. Any notes are in archives at the moment.
2016-03-28 - 0.8.0 ∞
Installed using slpkg:
\slpkg -s sbo lxpanel2016-03-26 - 0.6.1 ∞
This came with Lubuntu (version not recorded)
2015-05-11 - 0.6.1 ∞
See also:
- LXDE (2015-05-12) for notes on the whole desktop environment.
32 bit ∞
The 32 bit repository is http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware-current/lxde/
If you get something like
bash: /usr/bin/lxpanel: No such file or directory
Then you've tried to run a 32 bit executable on a 64 bit distribution. You need to get 32 bit software.
64 bit ∞
With most sincere thanks to http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-current/lxde/
grabit(){ \wget -c http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-current/lxde/"$1" \txz2sb "$1" # TODO - cut the extension off so I can have this method do the activate slax activate "$2" } grabit lxpanel-0.6.1-x86_64-1ponce.txz \ lxpanel-0.6.1-x86_64-1ponce.sb grabit lxmenu-data-0.1.2-x86_64-1ponce.txz \ lxmenu-data-0.1.2-x86_64-1ponce.sb grabit menu-cache-0.5.1-x86_64-1ponce.txz \ menu-cache-0.5.1-x86_64-1ponce.sb
Tested and works, and also gives a sound control icon and a proper applications menu.
Earlier than 2010-04-20 - (version not recorded) ∞
I had used this from a long while back, while struggling with fbpanel issues.
Sometimes an application will keep blinking. I have no idea how to solve this other than to exit and re-start the application.
