The &xcenter; is a highly customizable, object-based bar at the top or bottom of your screen which you can use to quickly access objects on your Desktop and view and change system information as well.

The &xcenter; is intended to be an add-on or replacement to the &warpcenter;, as introduced by &warp4;. That is, you can use it together with the &warpcenter;, or you can use it all alone.

Compared to the &warpcenter;, the &xcenter; has a number of advantages. For one, you can have more than one &xcenter; on your system; secondly, you can define what is displayed in the &xcenter; in a much more detailed way.

You can fine-tune some of the &xcenter; behavior, such as its display style, in its properties notebook.

The &xcenter; uses so-called widgets to display and/or access data. The &xcenter; contains the following standard widgets by default:

  1. The &xbutton;;

  2. buttons for lockup, find, and shutdown;

  3. the "Pulse" (CPU monitor);
  4. a &link_drivesfdr; button;
  5. a &link_syssetupfdr; button;
  6. a &link_cmdfdr; button;

  7. the window list;

  8. the current system time.
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