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I see that I just have to find 'the right spot' to right click, but I fail and fail. Every where I click the click goes to the nearest window in the list.

I've tried editing the dconf dump file to remove the windowlist but I discover that is not the way to do it.

Stephen Boston
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Consider to use gsettings instead of dconf. Simple hacky way:

gsettings set org.mate.panel object-id-list \
"$(gsettings get org.mate.panel object-id-list | sed "s/'window-list', //")"

Explanation. On my clean installation of Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS the output of 

gsettings get org.mate.panel object-id-list

is 

['briskmenu', 'firefox', 'notification-area', 'indicatorappletcomplete', 'clock', 'show-desktop', 'window-list', 'workspace-switcher', 'trashapplet']

With | sed "s/'window-list', //" piping we can remove 'window-list', from parameter value and change it to the following:

['briskmenu', 'firefox', 'notification-area', 'indicatorappletcomplete', 'clock', 'show-desktop', 'workspace-switcher', 'trashapplet']

then we pass this value to gsettings set org.mate.panel object-id-list.

Note: this method is also suitable for Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS.

N0rbert
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  • Thanks N0rbert but the problem is that I have two window lists and want to remove only one of them. If I am following the logic of your suggestion it would remove all instances. I suppose it would be easy enough to add one after removing them all. I could even rebuild the entire panel without much effort, but it would be nice to have fine CLI control of the panel for panel applets that don't offer a clear easily accessible click context for applet-level control. – Stephen Boston Oct 04 '18 at 02:41
  • Thanks, this explained how to get rid of an applet that I had added to the panel that did not actually appear on the panel! – Organic Marble Jul 12 '22 at 13:44