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Asked: 2015-03-05 13:30:30 +0800 CST

System tray information disappeared

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Last week the system tray disappeared on my laptop running 14.04 Mate, meaning all information and menus in the top right corner: time and date, network, sound volume, shutdown etc. I remember that some process crashed and I may have clicked the wrong button when that happened, resulting in this process not starting anymore.

How can I get this back?

14.04

3 Answers

  1. same thing happened to me. here's what you can do: right click the panel and then "add to panel", select "notification area"

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  2. You can check to see if it exists and where with which mate-panel which should return /usr/bin/mate-panel.

    You can reinstall it with sudo apt-get install mate-panel

    This command will also error and tell you if you already have the latest version.

    If mate-panel is running you can right click the panel to add missing components to the panel (clock, etc, etc.)

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  3. I had this problem for months and I just fixed it. think I had some dodgey applets running. So I reinstalled mate-panel and then killed the process. When I killed the process it gave me a message about some rogue applets running and asked if I wanted to delete them. I said yes and haven't had a problem since:

    sudo apt-get remove mate-panel
sudo apt-get install mate-panel
sudo killall mate-panel
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