Panels are missing - what to do?

[edgreenberg]

Ubuntu Mate 24.04. Up to date.

I came back to the computer, unlocked, and found that all my panels were missing. I have two monitors, and panels top and bottom on each.

I'm not sure if there is any way to get them back without logging out and in again, and how would I do that anyway?

What I did, since I had a shell window open, was 'sudo reboot' and logged in again.

Are there better choices?

Thanks

[Alarik]

Ubuntu mate Panel disappeared

I've just installed ubuntu mate 19.04, coming from mate 16.04. I upgraded to 19.04 because I recently had intermittent problem with error saying "Attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0' ". I did some research and someone suggest that the boot partition should be GPT not MBR so I wiped my boot drive. then I set the partition table to GPT. So after19.04 installation, all is well. since /home is separated on other drive, all my old configs are retained. I see my mate panel is cluttered an…

This is and older post but might be of help and provide a quick solution

MATE panel not showing

This as well

[ironfoot]

I'll clarify this a little bit.

$ mate-panel --help

Application Options:
  --replace                       Replace a currently running panel
  --reset                         Reset the panel configuration to default

Your first choice option is mate-panel --replace, because the --reset option will reset your panel customizations (like panel placement, applets, launchers, etc.).

[stephematician]

By default, you should be able to open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T if you need a terminal to replace the panel.

In addition to the command for replacing the panel given above, you can also open MATE Tweak and switch away from, and then back to, your layout (if you have saved a custom layout). In the terminal, run mate-tweak to bring the app up.

[edgreenberg]

Many thanks for all the responses. I tested ctrl-alt-t, so I have that in my bag of tricks. I also installed tweak and explored that.

[catnipped]

Is there a permanent fix for this?

[Bombilla]

Hi, @catnipped and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!

[catnipped]

I'm using Ubuntu Mate 24.10 and consistently experience the loss of the system panel when I unlock the system after it goes to sleep as well as sometimes when I boot the system up or reboot it. I'm getting around this by modifying my rc startup script to initialize mate-panel, but it seems there should be a fix for this. Has anyone else experienced this?

When the panel disappears I use CTRL-ALT-T to launch a terminal, which invokes mate-panel during initialization -- a real kludge, but it does work.