I’ve became very interested in fbpanel recently, I like the minimal resources fbpanel uses (depends on your profile). I’m going to be making some fbpanel profiles for people to use, these profiles are very easy to edit and make. I’m doing this because I haven’t seen any fbpanel styles or layouts at all for people to use. I’ve realized how neat fbpanel is, and I’d like to see fbpanel used to its full potential. One thing that sets fbpanel a part from other panels is its ability to use more than 1 profiles at the same time, such as top_bar, bottom_bar, left_bar, or right_bar. Forgive me for not being original for names of these profiles. Please report any bugs in my profiles so I can fix them.
Installing fbpanel
For fbpanel to work first you need to install fbpanel:
$ sudo apt-get install fbpanel
How to Install fbpanel profiles
This is very easy, first make sure that /home/$user/.fbpanel is created, if not make it now. To install a profile open your text editor, copy then paste the profile into your editor, save the file like /home/$user/.fbpanel/{file name specified in the profile’s code}
Repeat the step for any other profiles that go together.
Autostart
- Openbox - If you want fbpanel on autostart run:
$ sudo gedit /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh
Add the following lines to autostart.sh:
sleep 0;
fbpanel –profile profile-file-name1 &
(there are two hyphens)
If there is another profile that goes with a corresponding profile add it in the autostart profile like this:
sleep 0;
fbpanel –profile profile-file-name & fbpanel –profile profile-file-name2 &
Profiles
