F***ing Small Panel

This software is no longer developed
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Why do this?

• For fun, learn how to use Xlib
• Fight the bloat

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  616 zed        8   0  4276 4276  2936 S       0  0.0  6.7   0:00 panel
  625 zed        6   0  3116 3116  2444 S       0  0.0  4.9   0:00 tasklist_applet
  622 zed        3   0  3108 3108  2444 S       0  0.0  4.9   0:00 gen_util_applet

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  210 zed        0   0   388  332   244 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 fspanel

What is it?

FSPanel is a panel for Linux/Unix that lists all your open windows. It lets you iconify and bring windows to front. FSPanel is tiny, less than 10k on i386-linux. It does require a gnome compliant window manager though (eg. Enlightenment, SawFish, WindowMaker, IceWM).
Here's a fullsize screenshot: fspanel2.png
Basically it's a tiny, lame, featureless panel.

FSPanel does NOT and probably will never have any:

• program launchers
• menus
• applets

Download

Download the file for your OS and then chmod +x fspanel to make it executable.

Linux-i386 binary now 9280 bytes! How low can it go?

Operating System	Architecture	File Size	Version	Download Link
Linux	i386	9,280	0.7	fspanel
Linux	PPC	12,540	0.6	fspanel
Linux	Sparc	12,056	0.6	fspanel
Linux	Alpha	19,568	0.7	fspanel
Linux	m68k	11,124	0.6	fspanel
FreeBSD	i386	10,220	0.7	fspanel
NetBSD	i386	12,552	0.6	fspanel
Solaris 8	Sparc	14,788	0.7	fspanel
MacOSX	PPC	22,832	0.7	fspanel
IRIX	Mips	25,412	0.7	fspanel
Win32/XFree86	i386/Cygwin	12,288	0.7	fspanel.exe

Source code: fspanel-0.7.tar.gz 8,964 bytes.

Source code: fspanel-0.8beta1.tar.gz 9,703 bytes.Requires EWMH compliant window manager!

Have you compiled a binary for an OS/Arch not listed here? Email it to me: zed at linuxpower.org

How do I get it to work with sawfish?

Simple, just add this to your ~/.sawfishrc:

(require 'gnome)

Hidden Features

• Click on the far right of the panel to make it hide.
• Click on the far left of the panel to make it jump to top of screen.
• Click the arrows on the left to switch desktops.

ChangeLog

version 0.8beta1

• Switched to unified window manager spec. You now need a window manager that supports it. E.g. Sawfish, KWM.
• Changed the desktop pager to 1 2 3 etc buttons.
• Made it possible to compile with Xft for anti aliased text.
• Removed the clock. If you need a clock, use 0.7.
• Right-clicking a task makes it shade.

version 0.7

• Windows that set their icons after mapping no longer get the generic icon.
• A new generic icon (looks better, I think).
• Fixed lockup when large amount of windows are open.
• Desktop switching arrows look different.
• Panel height and width are customizable at the top of fspanel.c. Made the default 24 (previously 22) and font 12. This seems to suite 1024x768 well, change to what suites you.
• Now uses the unified window manager spec to find the list of windows. Falls back to gnome spec if unavailable. This might make fspanel work on KDE? Note: this is only partially supported and uses the unified spec only for a client list, everything else still uses the gnome window manager spec.
• Optimized more code - i386-linux binary is now 9280 bytes!

Patches, Addons and Forks

Over some time I have collected various patches from people, which might be of interest to you, so here they are:

• APM status patch for laptops (fspanel 0.7)
• fspanel-get-wm-name.patch
• fspanel-locale2.patch
• fspanelclock2.diff
• fspanel-pager2.diff(screenshot)
• fspanel-alltasks.bz2
• fspanel-sticky.patch.gz

• http://wind.prohosting.com/anoved/sw.fspanel.shtml
• http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/index.html

F.A.Q.

1. Can you ________ with FSPanel?

   Probably not.