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Chapter 5.1 LXQt Panel
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LXQt Panel is the bar situated at the bottom of your screen by default. The panel contains an application menu, a desktop switcher, a quick-launch bar, a taskbar, a system tray containing applets, and a clock. The panel is highly configurable with a number of settings and plugins.
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Usage
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The application menu allows you to browse and search through available programs; a keyboard shortcut is conveniently available for this. The desktop switcher allows you to switch to another virtual desktop, allowing you to keep your workspace organized. The quick launch bar allows you to conveniently launch your file explorer (PCManFM) and web browser (Firefox). To add a program to quick launch open the menu and find it there and drag it down onto the panel.
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.. image:: menu_search.png
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The taskbar lists the windows you currently have open. To bring one of these windows to focus simply left click the windows on the task bar. If you have multiple of the same window left clicking will open the group, allowing you to select between the different windows. If you want to close a group of multiple windows you can right click the group and click close all.
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.. image:: multiple_tasks.png
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In the system tray there there are multiple widgets. With the volume applet you can change the volume by using the mouse-wheel with the mouse over the speaker icon left click the speaker icon and drag the volume up and down and toggle mute with the button at the bottom. To the far right is a clock, you can click the clock to bring up a pop up calendar window.
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.. image:: system_tray.png
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As mentioned before, the panel is highly configurable and you can customize it by right clicking at various places.
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Customizing
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To change many panel settings right click not on the main taskbar and click the wrench button for panel settings. To move the panel their is a drop down menu of position that can move it to where you want. The alignment drop down menu lets you set the alignment of the panel on your screen if you choose to move it or make it only a portion of the screen. The size menu lets you increase or decrease the width of the panel. Lenght has two fields the one is either px or percent is for to change the length of the panel in pixels while percent is a percent of the entire screen size that changes if you change resolution. The first is the number of pixels or percent of the screen you want the panel to cover. The icon size makes the size of the icons bigger or smaller on the panel.
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To change to a custom font color press the color button checkbox. Press the dropper button to bring up a widget to choose the custom color.
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Version
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Lubuntu ships with version 0.13.0 of lxqt-panel.
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How to launch
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lxqt-panel should auto launch by default. If you need to manually start it, run
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.. code::
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lxqt-panel
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from the command line.
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