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codeaviator
Asked: 2017-03-10 04:00:06 +0800 CST

Restart Xfce panel in Xubuntu

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I am running Xubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Xfce 4.12

I have customized the panel, but after saving the changes I got the message:

"Please restart the panel for visibility changes to take effect."

How can I restart the panel?

xfce

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To restart the panel, open the terminal and run the following command:

    xfce4-panel -r

    Your changes should be visible now.

    The -r option stands for restart, as described in the man page:

    -r, --restart

    Restart the running panel instance

    (Source: http://manpages.org/xfce4-panel)

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  2. Sometimes I find that, xfce panel is gone. Therefore I need to restart the panel.

    Above restart process do not work 100%. In my system, it cannot initialize session-buttons and other add-on(s).

    To complete panel restart, just open the task manager and kill the xfce4-panel process. Don't worry. System will restart the panel just after is has been killed.

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  3. If you think you'd be better off killing the panel process first, try this:

    #!/bin/sh

panelcommand=$(ps aux | grep -e "xfce4-panel" | grep -e "--display" | awk '{print $11,$12,$13,$14,$15}')

ps aux | grep -e "xfce4-panel" | grep -e "--display" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

$panelcommand

    Works fine in Debian 07 (Wheezy).

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