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