XFCE4(1)

πŸ’– XFCE4(1) β€” the places plugin glow-up πŸ’–

ok so bestie, welcome to the XFCE4(1) manual page, aka the little doc that explains xfce4-places-plugin. it's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫢


✨ NAME ✨

Xfce4-places-plugin β€” your quick access to folders, documents and removable media. no cap, that's literally what it does πŸ’…


🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically this plugin brings a LOT of the functionality of GNOME's Places menu over to Xfce. iconic crossover event fr fr.

It puts a simple button on the panel. and the way that it works? you click that button and a menu pops open with 4 sections:

  • System-defined directories (home folder, trash, desktop, file system) 🏠
  • Removable media (using thunar-vfs) πŸ’Ύ
  • User-defined bookmarks (reads ~/.gtk-bookmarks) πŸ”–
  • Recent documents submenu πŸ“„

that's it. that's the whole menu. slay ✨

Synopsis:

xfce4-popup-places [OPTION...]

πŸ‘‘ OPTIONS πŸ‘‘

one bullet per flag, bestie, no skipping, we love a complete list πŸŽ€

  • -p, --pointer β€” popup menu at current mouse position. it's giving "wherever your cursor is, that's where the menu shows up" πŸ–±οΈβœ¨
  • -h, --help β€” show help options. the classic "pls explain urself" button πŸ’œ
  • -V, --version β€” print version information and exit. main character energy: says what it is, then leaves 😌

Copyright Β© 2004-2011

The Xfce development team. All rights reserved.

Please report bugs to <https://bugzilla.xfce.org/>. πŸ›

ngl if you find a bug, tell the Xfce devs β€” they wanna know, fr fr 🫢

and that's the whole page, bestie πŸ’– this was the Xfce4 places plugin page, dated July 2019, and it lives under the manual name XFCE4(1). periodt. πŸ’…πŸŽ€πŸ¦‹