Tint2 Panel

The Debian Series - Part V

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar unintrusive and light (memory / cpu / aesthetic).

Tint2 has following features :

• panel with taskbar, systray, clock and battery status
• easy to customize : color/transparency on font, icon, border and background
• pager like capability : send task from one workspace to another, switch workspace
• multi-monitor capability : one panel per monitor, show task from current monitor
• customize mouse event
• window manager's menu
• tooltip
• autohide
• clock timezones
• real & fake transparency with autodetection of composite manager
• panel's theme switcher 'tint2conf'

To install tint2, open the terminal and type:

$ sudo apt-get install tint2

To run tint2 simply type :

$ tint2 &

Run tint2 at the first time will return an error message. Why?

Tint2 has a configuration file in ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc.  At first run, tint2 tries to copy the configuration file with the default settings into /.config/tint2 on your home directory, that unfortunately is not exist yet.

no .config directory.

create the directory:

$ mkdir -p .config/tint2

$ tint2 &

and here we go. we have a panel ready to be customized. 

Now, we create openbox autostart.sh and set tint2 to run everytime the openbox session starts.

$ nano .config/openbox/autostart.sh

save the file and done.

How to configure tint2 here.

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