Looking for Panel suggestions

Yesterday at 21:22:28

Greetings everyone,

I have been running OpenBox (withtout DE, so no XFCE, LXDE or anything) on Xorg for years, using Tint2 as my panel, with a very simple configuration: taskbar (separated per workspace), systray, battery percentage and clock+date.

I have been considering changing Tint2 for something else for a while, considering its issues with stability (sometimes it just crashes, out of the blue with or without a segfault shown in dmesg) and the fact that it has been essentially left to its own devices.

Do you have any suggestions for a good panel that could work well and be lightweight at the same time?

I tried Polybar, but its taskbar implementation is suboptimal (it used a bash script to show the taskbar contents) and it ended up using a lot more CPU than I was comfortable with.

As a secondary question: I'm shying away from switching to Wayland (since Xorg works well) but now I'm seeing more and more software being developed with Wayland in mind. I personally think it would be too early to switch, but what is your opinion on the matter? (I'm asking this because I see a lot of wayland-exclusive bars/panels).

Thank you for your attention.

Re: Looking for Panel suggestions

Reply #1 – Yesterday at 22:33:02

IMHO, if you want lightweight then wayland isn't for you.

On X I prefer FVWM3 including its panel with 'stalonetray'. It takes some time to figure out how to set it up, but nearly anything is possible.
And it's stable (also has very few open issues on github), fast and light, and in active development.

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Re: Looking for Panel suggestions

Reply #2 – Today at 08:42:37

There is lxpanel, I was using it when I was using openbox.