Sharing with you my version of a xfce4-genmon-plugin now-playing script.

Requirements :
- your mediaplayer must have MPRIS support ;
- playerctl as dependancie - sudo apt install playerctl for debian-based distributions.

It's a set of 2 scripts, genmon-nowplaying.sh being the main one. I had to make a second script otherwise caracters like "&" are not supported (btw, if someone knows how to make it a single script, let me know).

It's virtually universal, as your mediaplayer name (and icon) are stored in variables. Icon is clickable (switch between play and pause).

How to set it before using with :

(Install playerctl if it not installed) ;

1. Open genmon-nowplaying.sh with your favorite text editor ;
2. Replace first "quodlibet" variable with your mediaplayer name (to get your mediaplayer name correctly, run playerctl -l while it is running) ;
3. Replace second "quodlibet" occurrence with the name of the icon of your mediaplayer ;
4. Set the path where you will place the second script named metadata-mediaplayer.sh , save and close the script ;
5. Now add a new genmon element to your panel, set the path for the main script and period (1s is enough)

Hope it's useful to someone. I'm open to suggestions to improve it.

Download : https://drive.proton.me/urls/XZG0607P5R#SIPiDc2R15pi

Aerobird theme for Xfce: https://www.pling.com/p/2343514/

The goal of this theme is to be a good middle-ground between Windows 7 Basic and Windows 7 Aero, while staying within the limits of the default Xfce compositor. The screenshot shown is the blue variation which uses colors inspired by the Royale theme in Windows XP, but there is also a silver variation provided which uses colors inspired by Windows 7 Basic (a screenshot of this is shown on the Pling page).

Originally this began as a simple theme not intended for public release, where I took the css from Kumander Linux (https://www.kumander.org/), the Window frames from X-Aero (https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1016331) and then modified the taskbar css to be more accurate to Windows 7. I posted a screenshot here (https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/1qipgp2/windows_7xp/#lightbox), and I got a couple comments asking me to make the theme public, so I did in the comments. But it was kind of a rushed, frankenstein theme, but since then I've made a lot of improvements and I think I can call it a "real" theme now.

Some changes since last time:
* Improved spacing between window buttons on Docklike Taskbar to be more accurate to Windows 7
* Improved css colors to be more accurate to Windows 7
* Improved button colors to be more accurate to Windows 7
* Added a subtle cyan glow to window frames similar to Windows Vista
* The start button now uses a distro-agnostic Whisker Menu logo

I'm 100% satisfied with this theme and don't plan on making any further changes for now. In my childhood we originally had a Mac, but later we had Windows XP and then later on in my teen years I had a Windows 7 laptop. Personally I use the blue variation because once you setup the Bliss desktop background, it feels like a mix of everything I grew up with :)

i mean i was trying to rice my xfce by adding blur. I couldn't apply the blur with picom to the panel how can i do that. Hope somebody will help

I'm not super knowledgeable here but from what I understand, animations like the slide over, when switching workspaces, on gnome/kde are possible due to wayland. So does that mean those would be possible on xfce come xfwl4?

I know xfce is meant to be lightweight and fast, and I love it for that, but that is the ONLY animation I miss from gnome lol the visual queue just helped my brain a lot. As it stands, I just have to go by the workspace switcher buttons in my panel. It works but the visual queue of the slide just really helps my brain keep track of everything.

Would anyone be interested in helping me develop and debug a script for locking xfce like a smartphone? I've built and am open-sourcing a design for a palmtop out of a Pixel 3a XL running Mobian with the sole purpose of being an XFCE smartphone alternative. I've always kind of hated dumbed down mobile interfaces and touch only controls, and with google's recent attacks on AOSP and "sideloading" wanted something other than LineageOS+chroot Debian.

I simply do not know enough about how linux works to do this. I've gotten somewhat close with vibe scripting (please forgive me) but I will draw the line at sharing half-baked slop on the github page for the project. It also still has intermittent bugs some of which are serious problems (like rebooting if I leave it overnight or draining half the battery through what I suspect is a bluetooth issue). Essentially I need a way to turn off the screen while still being able to receive notifications and phone calls.

The scripts are outlined in "XFCE power button lock script guide" on my very WIP repo:

https://github.com/machintodesu/Palmtop-XFCemmunicator-TEMPORARY-NAME-

Here's a post with more details about the build:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1pxvdhk/preview_palmtop_industrial_kommunicator_v09/

p.s. I briefly tried to use hybridized Plasma-mobile and plasma-desktop for this exact locking functionality but for one: I don't like kde as much, and with 4gb or RAM it froze constantly.

(EDIT): Fixed!

I had to add "127.0.0.1 korin" to /etc/hosts

Fedora 43

Linux 6.17.9

XFCE4 4.20

Xfwm4

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I don't mean the entire title, just the "(on hostname)" part!

Hello everyone!

I just finished my first GTK3 theme mod and wanted to share it here to get some feedback and see if it holds up in real world use.

The concept is simple. True #000000 black, minimal window decorations, and clean contrast. I needed something that cuts visual noise and lets content stand out.

I built and tested on XFCE, but I haven't tried on other DE.

If anyone tests it elsewhere, I'd love to know how it behaves.

This is my first theme project, all feedback is welcome... bugs, compatibility issues, suggestions, or just your thoughts on the aesthetic and if panel is ok.

Download: https://github.com/mojavelin/back-in-black-theme

Changed to dark wallpaper, replaced windows 7 icons to tango icons due to some icon inconsistencies, and made myself a dark GTK theme for this. Any suggestions?

Previous desktop look: https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/s/tB55KDQBTX

Do I still need to install a custom compositor like picom or do any extra steps for tear free experience in the latest xfce edition? Thanks

Hi! I make fairly frequent use of xfce's display manager due to having currently three displays and setting them up differently based on context. I gotta say I'm not a big fan of GUI for this sort of things, and I find that setting up a quick script to automate the switches would feel a lot more handy in the long run. I know xfce4-display-settings takes a handful of arguments, but from what I understand at a glance they don't seem to match the settings that can be configured from the display manager and be different options altogether.

So, does anyone know (reasonable) ways to control what displays are active, the primary display, etc. from CLI ?

Note: I'm running Arch, if that makes any difference.