xfce4-winbootbutton-plugin

xfce4-winbootbutton-plugin is a Xfce4 panel plugin providing a button to boot to Windows via the grub-reboot <entry> command.

How to install

Clone the repository and run on Arch Linux:

$ ./configure --prefix="/usr"

Other distributions need other arguments:

Distribution	./configure <args>
Ubuntu	--prefix="/usr" --libdir="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
Fedora 24	--prefix="/usr" --libdir="/usr/lib64"
Other	depends on plugin folder location

Install the plugin to your plugins folder by running

$ make
$ sudo make install

The plugin should now show up in the Panel Preferences UI.

The plugin uses sudo to change the grub boot order by default. This requires to add the following to your sudoers file.

## Allows user 'user' to use `sudo grub-reboot` without a password
user ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/grub-reboot

Alternatively one can also switch to using pkexec instead of sudo.

Configuration

For easier use the plugin can now be configured to use pkexec instead of sudo. This removes the need to add a no-password-policy for grub-reboot to your suoders file. Just right click on the Button and click 'Properties'. Here you can change your boot entry as well as change if pkexec should be used.

Customization

The button itself should be able to be customized with CSS although I didn't test it. Its class name is win-boot-button.