xfce4-panel-profiles(1)

xfce4-panel-profiles1

A simple application to manage xfce panel layouts

Usage

xfce4-panel-profiles [COMMAND] filename

Overview

xfce4-panel-profiles is a simple application to manage Xfce panel layouts. It allows you to apply, save, remove, export, import a panel layout as a profile. You can, as example, backup the current panel layout, or import a previously exported panel profile.

xfce4-panel-profiles is a GUI application, but it can be also used via command line with limited features.

Commands

load filename

Load and apply a previously exported filename panel profile.

save filename

Save the current panel layout as filename. The profile's name should end with tar.bz2 for clarity.

Files

~/.local/share/xfce4-panel-profiles

User's custom panel profiles storage directory.

/usr/share/xfce4-panel-profiles/layouts

System provided panel profiles storage directory.

Examples

xfce4-panel-profiles save backup.tar.bz2

Make a backup of current panel layout.

xfce4-panel-profiles load backup.tar.bz2

Load and apply the previously exported panel layout.

Copying

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see GNU website ⟨http://www.gnu.org/licenses⟩.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

Author

2015-2021

Sean Davis ⟨[email protected]⟩

2013

Alistair Buxton ⟨[email protected]⟩

Reporting bugs

If you encounter a bug in xfce4-panel-profiles, please submit a bug report to the Xfce GitLab ⟨https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-panel-profiles⟩. Please note that to do this you will need to have or create an account on GitLab.

From xfce4-panel-profiles 1.1.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.