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• Launcher: An app launcher with a menu of your choice
• Notification Location: The location where notification icons appear
• Separator: It adds a separator or space between panel plugins
• Show Desktop: It can hide all windows and show desktop
• Window Buttons: It switches between open windows using buttons
• Window Menu: It switches between opening windows using the 
menu
• Workspace Switch: It switches between virtual desktops
External Plugins
There are various external plugins used in the panel as given below.
• Battery: xfce4 battery monitoring plugin compatible with APM and 
ACPI, Linux, and * BSD
• Calculator: xfce4 panel calculator plugin
• Clipman: xfce clipboard manager
• Cpufreq: Displays information about the CPU controller and the 
frequencies your system supports and uses
• Cpugraph: Provides multiple display modes (LED, gradient, fire, 
etc.) to display the current CPU load of the system
• Date Time: Shows the date and time on the panel, and a calendar 
appears when you left-click on it
• Diskperf: Displays disk performance/quick partition (bytes passed 
per second)
• Embed: Embeds the windows of the useless app on the panel
• Eyes: The eyes have examined you
• Fsguard: Scans the selected free disk space
• Genmon: Displays the script/program, captures the output (stdout), 
and displays the resulting thread in the panel
• Reference: It is a small plugin written by Mark Trompell to consis-
tently display information from various applications

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• Mail Clock: Multi-thread, multi-mail box, multi-protocol plugin to 
check emails from time to time
• Mount: It is a panel mounting/lowering utility
• MPC: MPD client plugin, Music Player Daemon
• Netload: Shows the current load of social media, currently running 
on Linux, * BSD, Sun Solaris, HP_UX, and macOS X
• Notes: Provides sticky notes for your computer
• Locations: It can access the folders, documents, and removable 
media menu
• PulseAudio Plugin: Adjusts audio volume and controls media play-
ers on xfce desktop
• Sample: Sample plugin developers can use as a basis for new panel 
plugins
• Sensors: Hardware Panel Hardware Plugin.
• Smart Bookmark: Allows you to do direct online searches for sites 
like google or Debian Bugzilla
• Statusnotifier: Provides a panel location for status notification items 
(app references)
• Stopwatch: Keeps track of the past
• Systemload: Displays current CPU load, working memory, switch-
ing space, and system downtime
• Time: This allows the user to activate the alarm at a specific time or 
end the calculation time
• Time Is Up: Take a break from the computer every X minutes
• Verve: The free command line plugin for the xfce panel
• Wavelan: Displays statistics from the LAN wireless interface (sig-
nal status, signal quality, network name (SSID)). Supports NetBSD, 
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux
• Weather: Displays current temperature and weather, using weather 
data provided by xoap .weather . com

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