FBPANEL(1) User Commands FBPANEL(1)NAME
fbpanel - a NETWM compliant lightweight GTK2-based panel for UNIX desktop.
SYNOPSIS
fbpanel [OPTION]
DESCRIPTION
fbpanel is desktop panel which provides graphical information and feedback about desktop activity and allows interaction with the window
manager. It features:
o taskbar - shows a list of the managed windows (tasks)
o pager - thumbnailed view of the desktop.
o launchbar - buttons to quickly launch applications
o show desktop - button to iconify or shade all windows
o image - display an image
o clock - show the current time and/or date
o system tray - tray for XEMBED icons (aka docklets)
fbpanel requires NETWM (www.freedesktop.org) compliant window manager. You can run many instances of fbpanel each with its own configura-
tion (see OPTIONS below).
Most updated info about fbpanel can be found on its home page: http://fbpanel.sf.net/
OPTIONS --help -- print help message and exit.
--version
-- print version and exit.
--log <number>
-- set log level 0-5. 0 - none 5 - chatty
--configure
-- open configuration dialog
--profile <name>
-- use specified profile. The profile is loaded from the file ~/.config/fbpanel/<name>. If that fails, fbpanel will load
/usr/share/fbpanel/default. No -p option is equivalent to -p default
-h-- same as --help
-p-- same as --profile
-v-- same as --version
-C-- same as --configure
CUSTOMIZATION
fbpanel will create a default profile file in case there noone exists already. Default profile file contains comments and explanation
inside, so it should be easy.
For a complete list of options and examples, please read '/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README'.
FILES
~/.config/fbpanel/
Directory with the user's private profiles
~/.config/fbpanel/default
The user's default profile.
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README
The fbpanel documentation. Contain a list of features and pretty useful examples of their funcionality.
AUTHOR
fbpanel was written by Anatoly Asviyan <aanatoly@users.sf.net>. This manual page was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by
Shyamal Prasad <shyamal@member.fsf.org> and updated by Ulises Vitulli <dererk@debian.org>.
fbpanel 6.1 Jul 2010 FBPANEL(1)
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CAIRO-DOCK(1) General Commands Manual CAIRO-DOCK(1)NAME
cairo-dock - An light eye-candy fully themable animated dock for any Linux desktop
SYNOPSYS
cairo-dock
Description
An light eye-candy fully themable animated dock for any Linux desktop This has a family-likeness with OSX dock, but with more options. Uses
cairo to render nice graphics, and Glitz to use hardware acceleration. It's fully configurable and can be a taskbar too. You can easily
plug applets into it.
Usage
% cairo-dock [OPTION...]
Options
Help Options:
-h, --help
Show help options
Application Options:
-l, --log
log verbosity (debug,message,warning,critical,error) default is warning
-c, --cairo
use Cairo backend
-o, --opengl
use OpenGL backend
-O, --indirect-opengl
use OpenGL backend and toggle On/Off indirect rendering. Use this instead of -o if you have some drawing artifacts, like invisible
icons.
-i, --indirect
deprecated - see -O
-a, --keep-above
keep the dock above other windows whatever
-p, --no-skip-pager
show the dock in pager
-b, --no-skip-taskbar
show the dock in taskbar
-s, --no-sticky
don't make the dock appear on all desktops
-t, --toolbar-hint
force the window manager to consider cairo-dock as a toolbar instead of a dock
-n, --normal-hint
force the window manager to consider cairo-dock as a normal appli instead of a dock
-e, --env
force the dock to consider this environnement - it may crash the dock if not set properly.
-d, --dir
force the dock to load this directory, instead of ~/.config/cairo-dock.
-m, --maintenance
allow to edit the config before the dock is started and show the config panel on start
-x, --exclude
exclude a given plug-in from activating (it is still loaded though)
-f, --safe-mode
don't load any plug-ins
-C, --capuccino
-X, --expresso
-L, --cafe-latte
Cairo-Dock makes anything, including coffee !
-v, --version
print version and quit.
-M, --modules-dir
ask the dock to load additionnal modules contained in this directory (though it is unsafe for your dock to load unnofficial mod-
ules).
-T, --testing
for debugging purpose only. The crash manager will not be started to hunt down the bugs.
-E, --easter-eggs
for debugging purpose only. Some hidden and still unstable options will be activated.
-S, --server
address of a server containing additional themes. This will overwrite the default server address.
-k, --locked
lock the dock so that any modification is impossible for users.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Debian Cairo-dock Maintainers <pkg-cairo-dock-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux sys-
tem(but may be used by others).
March 2010 CAIRO-DOCK(1)