The other day I accidentally deleted the panel that appears above the Mate Panel with icons. It’s the one that shows minimized applications. Now, when I minimize an app it disappears just like it was closed out??
I’ve tried the Mate-Tweak but didn’t see anything in that like what I need. I even went into Synaptic and reinstalled all the mate-panel stuff but still that panel is missing.
So, can someone tell me how to restore that panel above the main one without having to do another install?
Thanks
You should be able to right click the visible panel, select New Panel (you can change where the panel is by right clicking it and selecting properties > orientation), and on the new panel right click it and select Add to Panel > Window List.
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Yes, I’ve done that, BUT, when I open an application the icon does NOT show up in that mew panel? And when I minimize that app it disappears just like it would if I had closed it. That and the new panel is much wider than the original one so they are not the same.
Thanks
You need to add the “Window List” panel applet to view open applications. You can adjust the height of the panel by right-clicking empty space on panel and choosing Preferences.
A word of warning: Ubuntu MATE 14.04 is now unsupported and in the process of falling apart because of LibreOffice 4.4 and dependencies on PPAs that have been taken down. I hoped to stay on 14.04 until April 2019, but it’s not possible.
I wonder if the upgrade path to Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 is still viable? This upgrade path was “released” about a year ago.
Hey thanks for the info, that made it usable. That added panel that I deleted didn’t come back but I can see the applications that I minimized and that’s all I need.
RE: Mate 14.04 not supported because of LibreOffice? Funny I haven’t seen any announcements on this from Software Update?? No problem though as I was going to purge LibreOffice anyway. FYI this is actually Ubuntu 14.04 with the 1.8.1 Mate desktop added to it by me and it’s on a 30GB SSD. I don’t need all the stuff that’s in Office plus I don’t need the 100+ MB updates that seem to come every month with this metered cellular data service I use for internet access.
Before I did this 14.04 reload last month I only had ABI Word on here and it worked fine for a couple of years like that.
Mate 16.04? Nah, I’ve got that running on a “mule box” here in the shop and I don’t like it! When 14.04 finally goes belly up I will probably try Ubuntu Gnome to see how I like that.
Ennywho, thanks for your help…
Then you have nothing to worry about. You have LibreOffice (4.2 I think) which is included by default and supported to April 2019.
I was having a hard time getting rid of LibreOffice 4.4 (PPA version). I was able to reinstall packages from this PPA and there are no broken dependencies on my system. I expect LibreOffice 4.4 to still be broken, though.
I was looking for a newer version of LibreOffice and found LO 5.3.3 AppImage. It runs beautifully and picks up my theming, recent documents and dictionaries from my LO profile. I'm impressed, I can't tell the difference between this and a deb version. All I had to do was make the file executable. Then add a launcher to the panel for convenience. Since AppImage is portable, there is no need for root either.