Created attachment 8376 Screenshot of the Places plugin The Places widget is the only widget that doesn't have a transparent background, so it doesn't fit the rest of the panel.
Which panel version are you using? Maybe the panel is gtk3 and this plugin is one of the few still not ported.
Sorry for late response. I'm using xfce4-panel 4.13.3.
Can you try to build and install the WIP gtk3 version[1] of this plugin? 1 - https://github.com/andreldm/xfce4-places-plugin
I have tried to install with following output: ``` Making install in panel-plugin make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/panel-plugin' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/panel-plugin' /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/bin' /usr/bin/install -c xfce4-popup-places '/usr/local/bin' /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/xfce4/panel/plugins' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 places.desktop '/usr/local/share/xfce4/panel/plugins' /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins' /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libplaces.la '/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins' libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libplaces.so /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libplaces.so libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libplaces.lai /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libplaces.la libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Libraries have been installed in: /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and specify the full pathname of the library, or use the '-LLIBDIR' flag during linking and do at least one of the following: - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during execution - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable during linking - use the '-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to '/etc/ld.so.conf' See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/panel-plugin' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/panel-plugin' Making install in po make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/po' linguas="am ar ast be bg ca cs da de el en_AU en_GB eo es et eu fi fr gl he hr hu id is it ja kk ko lt lv ms nb nl oc pa pl pt_BR pt ro ru sk sl sq sr sv th tr ug uk ur_PK ur zh_CN zh_TW "; \ for lang in $linguas; do \ dir=/usr/local/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \ /bin/bash /home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/install-sh -d $dir; \ if test -r $lang.gmo; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo $dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo; \ echo "installing $lang.gmo as $dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo"; \ else \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo $dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo; \ echo "installing ./$lang.gmo as" \ "$dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo"; \ fi; \ if test -r $lang.gmo.m; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo.m $dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo.m; \ echo "installing $lang.gmo.m as $dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo.m"; \ else \ if test -r ./$lang.gmo.m ; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo.m \ $dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo.m; \ echo "installing ./$lang.gmo.m as" \ "$dir/xfce4-places-plugin.mo.m"; \ else \ true; \ fi; \ fi; \ done installing am.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ar.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ast.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing be.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing bg.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ca.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing cs.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing da.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing de.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing el.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing en_AU.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing en_GB.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing eo.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing es.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing et.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing eu.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing fi.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing fr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing gl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing he.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing hr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing hu.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing id.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing is.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing it.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ja.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing kk.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ko.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing lt.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing lv.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ms.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing nb.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing nl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing oc.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing pa.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing pl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing pt_BR.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing pt.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ro.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ru.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing sk.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing sl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing sq.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing sr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing sv.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing th.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing tr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ug.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing uk.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ur_PK.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing ur.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing zh_CN.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo installing zh_TW.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-places-plugin.mo make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master/po' make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master' make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'. make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nawordar/Downloads/xfce4-places-plugin-master' ``` I don't see any difference, but I'm not sure if I did everything correctly. That's actually the first time I've build a GTK application.
Try: make distclean ./autogen --prefix=/usr # plugins have to be in the same prefix as panel make && sudo make install If you want to return to the previously installed version, run sudo make uninstall and install places-plugin again with the package manager.
Works perfectly, thanks! Are you going to merge it soon?
Really really soon, see a ready to be merged WIP here: https://github.com/bluesabre/xfce4-places-plugin
Merged into git master.