conky-manager2 VS docklike-plugin

AFAIK, conky manager is unmaintained, although there is a fork you can try to build yourself.

The fork of conky manager which is conky-manager2 is maintained and works with the newer conky syntax based on Lua. https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2 Do a web search and you can find a PPA that has it.

try gotham clock desklet from conky-manager2, it looks cool

So what I did to get it working is installed conky from the repo/discovery store. I then manually installed conky-manager2 which you can get here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

you might want to try this updated fork instead: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I'm using conky with conky maganger 2. Here's a link:https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I have kind of the same problems. So, that is why I answer. I came across conky when using MX Linux. they have a wonderfully working Conky manager, which can be downloade here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

As the other person said, Docklike and Plank (in the Software center) are readily available.

Just learned of this, to amend my other comment: https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin

I think the docklike plugin behaves like you want

I am novice nixos user and I didn't really write any of nix expressions yet. I would like to have Xfce's docklike taskbar plugin (github link), so I would greatly appreciate if somebody could make one nix expression for me so I could build it? I also hope it's not too hard, but I am too sick and tired atm to comperhend documentation regarding it.

Because of default xfce window task manager sometimes picks icons from .desktop files sometimes picks from window icons. I recommend xfce4-docklike-plugin

It is doable with this plugin. Install via ppa way https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin

A couple of distros now bundle the very nifty "docklike" task switcher, which is rather snazzy and integrates well: https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin

The final piece was the docklike-plugin you mentioned. This was the last straw. I attempted to follow the instructions found here: https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin