[SOLVED] how to restore Xfce Panel

mmm123 · 03-30-2020, 10:55 PM

Hello. Just lost my panel by clicking Apply currentconfiguration in panel setting. How to restore Xfce Panel if i do not have a back up?

rokytnji · 03-31-2020, 12:34 AM

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How to reset xfce panels to default settings !

Shut down the panel first, xfce4-panel --quit.
Kill the xfce4 configuration daemon, pkill xfconfd.
First delete settings for the panel, rm -rf ~/. config/xfce4/panel.
Clear out the settings for xfconfd , rm -rf ~/. ...
Restart the panel, run xfce4-panel.

Good luck

Edit: Better explanation than I can give

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XFCE stores it's configuration for the running session in xfconfd. Feel free to back up the files you're going to delete first.

Shut down the panel first, xfce4-panel --quit
Kill the xfce4 configuration daemon, pkill xfconfd
First delete settings for the panel, rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel
Clear out the settings for xfconfd, rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml
Restart the panel, run xfce4-panel. This will respawn xfconfd automatically. Note if you need or want to restart xfconfd manually know that on my installation it was in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd which was outside of $PATH.

This clears it for the running session, regenerates the files, and sets up the default for future sessions.

ondoho · 03-31-2020, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by mmm123

Just lost my panel by clicking Apply currentconfiguration in panel setting. How to restore Xfce Panel if i do not have a back up?

This is strange, because the xfce4-panel does not have a "Apply current configuration" button.

mmm123 · 03-31-2020, 09:32 AM

Thank you. Resolved with you help rokitnji!

phantom_cyph · 03-31-2020, 10:48 AM

@OP: Just curious, did this happen on Ubuntu? I've never had this happen with XFCE before.

blasterx · 05-11-2024, 10:58 AM

Thank you so much rokytnji