VALA-PANEL(1)

Vala Panel(1) — the glow-up manual 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Vala Panel manual page — that's the one from the General Commands Manual section, section 1, iykyk. sit down, grab a boba, and let's get you fluent 🧋✨

✨ NAME ✨

vala-panel — Vala Panel is a GTK+ 3 desktop panel. It's built on Vala and it's lowkey carrying some LXPanel ideas with it. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vala-panel [ {-c | --command } command name ] [ {-p | --profile } profile name ]

vala-panel [ {-h | --help } | {-v | --version } ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the vala-panel command. Yes, briefly — she's a short queen, we move.

Real talk though: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. So this? This is the community service. 🫶

And what does vala-panel actually do? It's a program that runs a panel. That's the whole vibe. Panel. Running. Iconic. 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the info(1) files. (yes, going to info(1) is the assignment, bestie, I don't make the rules 📚)

• -c command
• --command=command name — runs a specific command on an already opened panel. Valid commands without arguments are: menu, preferences, run, about, logout, shutdown, restart and quit. Valid commands with one string argument are launch-id, launch-uri, launch-command and panel-preferences. so many little errands for her to run, honestly obsessed 🏃‍♀️💨
• -p profile
• --profile=profile name — runs the panel with a specified profile. Heads up though: this option will have an effect only if the panel is not running right now. There are three pre-installed profiles: default, two_panels and appmenu. pick your fighter ⚔️✨
• -h
• --help — show summary of options. your lil cheat sheet, no shame 🌈
• -v
• --version — show version of the program. proof of life, periodt 💀

🎀 FILES 🎀

• ${$XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/vala-panel/ — the per-user configuration folder that controls the behaviour of vala-panel. It contains subfolders only, and it must contain at least one subfolder after a first run of vala-panel. Each subfolder is a profile for the panel, and its name is used as the profile name with the profile options. See default profiles for further reference. she's folders all the way down, bestie 🗂️💜

no cap: if you skip reading this and then wonder why --profile did nothing while your panel was already up and running — that's the "only if the panel is not running now" thing. I told you. I literally told you. 😭

and that's the whole page, babe 🌸 you just ate a man page for breakfast. this was Vala Panel(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual — source and title both reading Vala Panel(1), and no date or version info printed on this one, so don't come for me about it 🎀 mwah, go run a panel 💖✨