XFCE4-PANEL-PROFILES(1)

💅 xfce4-panel-profiles — a whole manual page, bestie

okay so this is the manual for xfce4-panel-profiles(1), and yes it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and yes it's about to be your new obsession. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, let's go.

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✨ NAME ✨

xfce4-panel-profiles — the iconique little app that manages your Xfce panel layouts for you 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xfce4-panel-profiles [ COMMAND ] filename

that's it. that's the whole vibe. a command, a filename, slay 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so xfce4-panel-profiles is a simple application to manage Xfce panel layouts. it lets you apply, save, remove, export, import a panel layout as a profile. like, say you wanna back up the current panel layout — iconic, do it. or import a previously exported panel profile — also iconic, do that too. 🫶

and here's the tea: xfce4-panel-profiles is a GUI application, but the way that it can also be used via command line? with limited features? that's the plot twist, bestie. ngl, the command line version is kind of the side character with main character energy. ✨

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⭐ COMMANDS ⭐

• load filename — load and apply a previously exported filename panel profile. it's giving restore-from-backup, it's giving glow-up 🦋
• save filename — save the current panel layout as filename. and bestie, the profile's name should end with tar.bz2 for clarity. lowkey a must. the .tar.bz2 is the vibe check. 🎀

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.local/share/xfce4-panel-profiles — this is your user's custom panel profiles storage directory. it's your little corner of the filesystem, main character energy only 💖
• /usr/share/xfce4-panel-profiles/layouts — the system provided panel profiles storage directory. not yours, but still serving 🌈

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💀 EXAMPLES 💀

okay these two are literally the entire personality of this page:

xfce4-panel-profiles save backup.tar.bz2

^ makes a backup of your current panel layout. protect your peace, back it up 🔥

xfce4-panel-profiles load backup.tar.bz2

^ loads and applies the previously exported panel layout you made and definitely did not forget about 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• 2015-2021 — Sean Davis
• 2013 — Alistair Juxton — wait, no, sorry, Alistair Buxton (typo check: Buxton. keeping it exact fr fr 💜)

two legends. two eras. one app. periodt. 👑

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

if you encounter a bug in xfce4-panel-profiles, please submit a bug report to the Xfce GitLab. an account on GitLab.

yeah bestie, that last sentence is genuinely how it's written in the original — it's a little sentence fragment that lost its other half somewhere. i'm not gonna lie to you and pretend it says something it doesn't, so here it is in all its unfinished glory 💀

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🧚 COPYING 🧚

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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 🎀

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details. 🫶

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. if not, see the GNU website. 👑

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and that's the page!! 🦋 this was xfce4-panel-profiles version 1.1.1, dated 2025, and its manual page title is XFCE4-PANEL-PROFILES(1) — okay love you bye, go back up your panel layout 💖✨🌸