fbpanel is a lightweight,
NETWM compliant desktop panel.
It works with any
NETWM compliant window manager (eg
xfwm4,
sawfish,
openbox,
metacity,
kde wm
)
It provides
- variety of plugins:
- taskbar
- pager
- 'show desktop' button
- launchbar
- image viewer
- text clock
- digital clock
- tray (notification area)
- menu with support for freedesktop.org (as in GNOME/KDE) applications menu
- space filler
- cpu monitor
- network monitor
- memory monitor
- battery monitor
- volume regulator
- general monitor - puts output of configured command in a panel
- ability to replace windows' icons
- all icons follow your current GTK+ icon theme
- transparency support
- customizable size and screen position
- ability to run many instances each with its own configuration
- modest resource usage
It's written in C and uses the
GTK+ library
only.
Latest version is
6.0