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

For available releases see the releases page.

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.

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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

Have fun!