matchbox-panel(1)

✨ matchbox-panel ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for matchbox-panel, from the General Commands Manual section of the man pages. buckle up, it's tiny but it's iconic 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

matchbox-panel — a desktop panel for resource-limited systems

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

matchbox-panel [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so matchbox-panel is literally a desktop panel, and the whole point of it is that it can hold little applets — think a clock, a system monitor, a wireless monitor, all that cute stuff. tiny widgets living their best life in a bar. obsessed 💅

And like, what even is Matchbox? Matchbox is a base environment for the X Window System that runs on non-desktop embedded platforms. we're talking handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks, and honestly anything else where screen space, input mechanisms, or system resources are limited. it's giving "small screen, big dreams" fr fr ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay here's the whole menu, no skips, no shortcuts:

• -display display — the X display you wanna connect to 🖥️
• -geometry geometry — bestie, don't use this one, use --size/--orientation instead 💀
• --id int — the panel number
• --size int, -s int — width/height of the panel, in pixels 📏
• --orientation north|east|south|west — (the manpage itself doesn't say more than that, it just hands you the four directions and walks away 💅)
• --default-apps app list, -da app list — a comma-separated list of apps to add to a panel when no session starts
• --margin-start +int — initial app offset in pixels (panel start) ⬅️
• --margin-end +int — initial app offset in pixels (panel end) ➡️
• --titlebar — request the panel in the titlebar 👑
• --no-session, -ns — disable automatic session saving
• --no-menu, -nm — disable the popup menu
• --no-flip, -nf — disable automatic panel rotation when the display is rotated 🔄
• --overide-bubbles, -o — set the override-redirect attribute on popup information windows (and yes, that spelling is exactly how it's written in the original, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 🫶)
• --help help — that's it. that's the whole line. --help help. iconic behaviour honestly 💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

matchbox-panel was written by Matthew Allum <mallum@o-hand.com>. thank you for your service king 🫡💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from the General Commands Manual, version-dated Jul 17 2004 — an absolute vintage era, we love a retro icon 🎀✨ mwah, go forth and panel 💅🦋