GNOME-PANEL-CONTROL(1)

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version 3.6.1 · 5 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💅 GNOME-PANEL-CONTROL 💅

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Openbox documentation (manual page, section 1, iykyk) and honestly it's giving "tiny tool, huge main character energy."

✨ NAME ✨

Openbox — standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager. no cap, that's the whole vibe. it's a window manager and it does the most while weighing basically nothing.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gnome-panel-control <option>

one command, one option, that's the entire deal. simple. iconic. periodt.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the lore 🫶. as of GNOME 2.4, gnome-panel stopped managing its own key bindings — like, it fully handed that job off. now it requires that the window manager provide its own key bindings for showing the Main Menu and the Run dialog. not a suggestion, a requirement. vibe check passed only if your WM steps up.

Openbox does exactly that, through the bundled gnome-panel-control tool 💖. you use it inside keybindings to get at gnome-panel, that's literally its whole purpose.

want the menu? use the --main-menu option to display gnome-panel's menu. want the run dialog? that's the --run-dialog option to display its Run dialog. slay. that's it. that's the tool.

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • --help — display some help and exit. tiny little assist, then it dips. 👋
  • --main-menu — show the main menu. 🌈
  • --run-dialog — show the run dialog. 🏃✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Openbox was written by Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft@comhem.se> and Ben Jansens <ben@openbox.org>, aided by several contributors — for a full list, read the file AUTHORS. give them their flowers fr fr 💐.

This manual page was written by Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org>. thank you for your service 🫡.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. freedom, bestie. 💅

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

and that's the whole page 🦋 — Openbox version 3.6.1, dated 2022-01-30. mwah, go bind some keys, you're gonna eat 💖✨

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