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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
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<link type="guide" xref="index#panel"/>
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<desc>Starting the <app>Xfce Panel</app> for the first time</desc>
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<name>Nick Schermer</name>
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<email>nick@xfce.org</email>
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<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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<title>Getting Started</title>
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<title>Launching the <app>Xfce Panel</app></title>
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The panel will useally be started as part of your Xfce session
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when you start the Xfce desktop enviroment by using the
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<cmd>startxfce4</cmd> script or a login manager. If you want to start
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the panel by hand, you can run the <cmd>xfce4-panel</cmd> command.
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<section id="migrate">
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<title>Migration dialog</title>
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<title>Migration dialog</title>
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<media type="image" src="figures/migrate.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
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When the panel is started for the first time it will give you the
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following three options:
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<title>Migrate old config</title>
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This option will try only be available when an old 4.6 panel
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configuration is found on your system. It will try to migrate
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the old panel layout to the new panel configuration in
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<title>Use default layout</title>
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This will import the default panel configuration with most of
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the default panel plugins. If you use the <app>Xfce Panel</app>
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for the first time, this will be a good base to create your own
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<title>One empty panel</title>
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This will give you one empty panel window. Might be what you
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want if you have already used <app>Xfce Panel</app> before and
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you know what you want.
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Once you have choosen the configuration you want, the settings are
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imported and the panel will show up, for example the default
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configuration in the picture below. Read more about changing the
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<link xref="preferences">configuration of the panel</link> and the
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various plugins in the other sections of this manual.
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<title>Default panel layout</title>
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<media type="image" src="figures/default.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>