Mate 22.04.0 - removed panel how to restore, and dropbox icon in panel?

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#1

Hi, I just joined the community, best wishes to all!

I removed the panel by mistake. Is there a way to restore the default? I don't have access to network settings/wifi. Also I use dropbox, and the dropbox icon also dissapeared. Is there a workaround to restore all these?

Thanks for listening

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#2

Hi kmate, welcome to the community :slight_smile:

Let's try to get your panel back.

The easiest method is to

  1. press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[T] to open a terminal.
  2. in terminal: Type mate-control-center
  3. in mate-control-center select 'MATE Tweak'
  4. in mate tweak: select panel
    In this window you can select a panel layout which puts you directly back in business.

tip1
You probably want to customize the panel a bit.
It might be a good idea to save your customized layout in mate tweak
Because if it happens again, you can call your customized layout directly with the steps described above.

tip 2
You also might want to lock your panel so that you can't delete/destroy it again.
The easiest way is from the terminal
To lock the panel:

gsettings set org.mate.panel locked-down true

To unlock the panel:

gsettings set org.mate.panel locked-down false

But you can also do this from a GUI like dconf-editor.

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#3

Hi tkn, many thanks for the immediate response and happy to join the community!

Let me check the suggestions you provided and will come back to you.

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#4

It worked fine tkn, many thanks!

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