xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin

A workspace switcher plugin for xfce4-panel which can be used for the i3 window manager.

For available releases see the releases page.

Maintenance mode

This project is in maintenance mode. I myself don't use it for years now and don't actively develop it. I still merge pull requests from contributors but I rely on them to test their changes as I don't keep a setup around for testing purposes.

Features

Present a list of buttons, one for each workspace, labeled with the workspace name. The focused workspace is marked with a bold label. Urgent workspaces are marked with red labels. Different colors can be configured for the label in focused/non-focused states. Support for strip workspace numbers configuration. Clicking on a workspace button will navigate you to the respective workspace.

Development

If you found a bug please report it in the issue tracker

Patches and pull requests are welcome!

Feel free to contact me at: dns.botond at gmail dot com.

Installing

Fedora/CentOS/openSUSE

The package is available as RPM for Fedora 30+, openSUSE 15.1+ and CentOS 7. It's provided on a COPR repository maintained by @fepitre: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fepitre/xfce4-i3/.

Fedora and CentOS

Please have a look on the official documentation on how to enable COPR repository. Then, for Fedora,

dnf install xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin

and for CentOS,

yum install xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin

openSUSE

Add the repo file by adjusting openSUSE release version. For example, for 15.1

zypper addrepo -f https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fepitre/xfce4-i3/repo/opensuse-leap-15.1/fepitre-xfce4-i3-opensuse-leap-15.1.repo fepitre-xfce4-i3

and for Tumbleweed

zypper addrepo -f https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/fepitre/xfce4-i3/repo/opensuse-tumbleweed/fepitre-xfce4-i3-opensuse-tumbleweed.repo fepitre-xfce4-i3

Then, install the package

zypper install xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin

Gentoo

Add the repository

eselect repository add knotteye git https://pond.waldn.net/git/knotteye/overlay.git

Sync it

emaint sync -r knotteye

And install the package

emerge --ask xfce-extra/xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin

If you get errors about package masking, add the following lines to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords

>=x11-misc/i3ipc-glib-1.0.1 ~amd64
>=xfce-extra/xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin-1.3.2 ~amd64

Building

Build Dependencies

• C toolchain (I only tested with gcc).
• pkg-config
• xfce4-dev-tools

Runtime Dependencies

• glib2
• gtk+2
• libxfce4ui-4.8
• libxfce4util-4.8
• xfce4-panel-4.8
• i3ipc-glib

Note:

• On binary distros you may have to install the -dev version of the required packages
• For the compilation to work out of the box I had to install i3ipc-glib in the /usr prefix too.

Building from git (needs autotools)

git clone https://github.com/denesb/xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin.git
cd xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Building from release tarball

• Download & extract tarball

cd xfce4-i3-workspaces-plugin
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Note: The --prefix=/usr is needed because if installed in /usr/local prefix the plugin is not discovered by xfce-panel. Maybe there is a way to tell xfce-panel to look in other places too, but I haven't found it just yet.

Setup

A good, detailed guide of how you can use i3wm together with xfce4 can be found here.

Have fun!