xfce4-workspace-bar

A simple xfce4-panel plugin to allow for a Polybar/i3status type workspace preview with the Xfce4 window manager.

The icons are automatically fetched from the current active window on each workspace.

Workspaces are swapped to by either left-clicking on the desired workspace or by using keybindings.

Dependencies

To install xfce4-workspace-bar, you will need libxfce4panel, libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, and libwnck.

For most distributions the Xfce4 development libraries can be installed via some kind of xfce4-dev-tools or xfce4-panel-dev package.

libwnck-3.0 is the required, which allows for workspace manipulation.

Installation

1. Run git clone https://github.com/jrachele/xfce4-workspace-bar.git

2. In the xfce4-workspace-bar/ folder, first run ./autogen.sh.

3. Run ./configure --prefix=/usr to direct the installation to /usr/lib/xfce4.

4. In the panel-plugin/ folder, run sudo make install.

5. Add the widget to your panel.

Bugs

This plugin was written and tested on Manjaro with bleeding-edge Xfce. Nevertheless it will most likely work fine on your hardware. If you run into any problems, you can try to debug yourself by first running xfce4-panel -q followed by xfce4-panel and reading stdout/stderr, or you can open an issues thread here.