FBPANEL(1)

📦 version 7.0, in ubuntu jammy

✨ FBPANEL(1) — the user commands glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to fbpanel, aka the manual page for a NETWM compliant, lightweight, GTK2-based panel for your UNIX desktop 💅 she's been around (Jul 2010 energy, iconic) and she still eats.

🎀 NAME 🎀

fbpanel — a NETWM compliant lightweight GTK2-based panel for UNIX desktop. no cap, that's literally the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fbpanel [OPTION]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. one binary, so many options, we love to see it 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so fbpanel is a desktop panel, right? she gives you graphical information and feedback about what's going on in your desktop, and she lets you actually interact with your window manager. main character energy fr fr.

here's what she's packing — the feature list, and bestie, it's giving range:

  • taskbar — shows a list of the managed windows (tasks)
  • pager — thumbnailed view of the desktop
  • launchbar — buttons to quickly launch applications
  • show desktop — button to iconify or shade all windows
  • image — display an image
  • clock — show the current time and/or date
  • system tray — tray for XEMBED icons (aka docklets)
⚠️ real talk: fbpanel requires a NETWM (www.freedesktop.org) compliant window manager. if your WM isn't NETWM compliant, this is not the collab you're looking for 😭

the way that you can run many instances of fbpanel, each with its own configuration? obsessed. (see OPTIONS below for the deets 👇)

most updated info about fbpanel lives on its home page: http://fbpanel.sf.net/

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --help — print help message and exit.
  • --version — print version and exit.
  • --log <number> — set log level 0-5. 0 - none, 5 - chatty. (she can be quiet, she can spill the tea, your call 🌈)
  • --configure — open configuration dialog.
  • --profile <name> — use specified profile. the profile is loaded from the file ~/.config/fbpanel/<name>. if that fails, fbpanel will load /usr/share/fbpanel/default. no -p option is equivalent to -p default.
  • -h — same as --help.
  • -p — same as --profile.
  • -v — same as --version.
  • -C — same as --configure.

🧚 CUSTOMIZATION 🧚

fbpanel will create a default profile file in case there no one exists already (yes, she sets you up before you even ask, that's a friend 🫶). the default profile file contains comments and explanation inside, so it should be easy. no guessing games, periodt.

for a complete list of options and examples, please read /usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README. seriously, go read it, it's the good stuff 💜

⭐ FILES ⭐

  • ~/.config/fbpanel/ — directory with the user's private profiles
  • ~/.config/fbpanel/default — the user's default profile
  • /usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README — the fbpanel documentation. contains a list of features and pretty useful examples of their functionality.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

fbpanel was written by Anatoly Asviyan <aanatoly@users.sf.net>. this manual page was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Shyamal Prasad <shyamal@member.fsf.org> and updated by Ulises Vitulli <dererk@debian.org>.

give them their flowers, they earned them 💐

and that's the whole page bestie! this one's fbpanel 22version22, dated Jul 2010 — shoutout to the whole FBPANEL(1) era, still serving looks all these years later. slay, stay NETWM compliant, and go read that README 💅✨💖

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