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Dustin
Asked: 2018-12-16 11:20:24 +0800 CST

18.04 Mate top panel double trouble

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Ok, been using Gnome in 18.04, but I wanted some of that good old Unity again. So, I installed Mate-desktop. It works ok until it does not work. Sometimes when I log in, and especially after I log out and log back in I get double everything - two indicators, two menus, and two brisk-menus and two trash bins. enter image description here It is a terrible experience. How can this be prevented? I very much would like to use Mate.

Thanks!

indicator ubuntu-mate 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Consider to reset panel settings with

    1. To be completely sure reset permissions on all dot-folders with

      sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.[a-zA-Z]*

    2. Open MATE Terminal and reset MATE Panel settings with dconf by 

      dconf reset -f /org/mate/panel/

    3. Open MATE Tweak (mate-tweak) again and select Mutiny layout.

    4. Relaunch MATE Panel with

      killall mate-panel 
mate-panel --replace &

      or logout and login again.

    Notes:
    1. I tested this method on clean installation of Ubuntu MATE 18.04.1 LTS.
    2. You can remove GNOME-related stuff as mentioned in my other answer but it is dangerous.

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