Lubuntu Taskbar missing

Question

I have recently installed Lubuntu 14.04 but when I start my computer and logs in the only thing I see is my wallpaper and my trashcan.

Lubuntu worked fine when I tried it before installing but now I cant see the taskbar. If I login as guest the taskbar is there.

I also gets a message that says:

Failed to set new theme
Failed to create file '/home/<username>/.cache/xfce4-notifyd-theme.rc.Z095SX': Permission denied

The six last letters and numbers in uppercase seems to be different every time.

Thanks for help :)

see https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1533us/no_taskbar_showing_on_lubuntu_after_login/ — αғsнιη, Jan 22 '15 at 21:01
@KasiyA If I rightclicks where the taskbar should be there is no option to "add new panel" — WeeRox, Jan 23 '15 at 07:20
@Rex Pressed CTRL + ALT + F2 to open terminal, then logged in but entering lxpanelctl restart just returned Can't connect to display: (null) — WeeRox, Jan 24 '15 at 18:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '15 at 19:31

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Ctrl + Alt + t will give you a terminal. Once you have terminal enter sudo synaptic You will be asked for your password. Enter it. The curser will not move. Hit enter. This should start the Synaptic Package Manager. Search for LXPanel and then mark lxpanel for re-installation. Hit apply. Hope that helps.

answered Jan 24 '15 at 19:31

Rex

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CTRL + ALT + T does not open a terminal. – WeeRox Jan 25 '15 at 07:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '21 at 20:34

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Open the terminal and remove the config files by typing:

rm -r ~/.config/lxpanel

then restart lxpanelctl:

lxpanelctl restart

Hope it works for you :)

answered Mar 18 '21 at 20:34

Dario Cotza

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '21 at 15:37

I too was just testing features but suddenly deleted task bar. By click remove panel

try to add panel and but the panel might be empty
try to add widget by right clicking on it .
click config panel
you might see widget
then add all the widgets and arrrage widgets according to

Your nesssity Then apply

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '15 at 09:26

Since I wasn't able to find out how to fix this issue I decided to reinstall Lubuntu. When I installed Lubuntu for the first time I did that because I messed up Ubuntu. For some reason I deleted the .Xauthority file and after that I wasn't able to use Ubuntu.

So I installed Lubuntu because I used the computer as a server. But under the installation I choose to install Lubuntu "on top of Ubuntu" so I would keep my documents and files. But that didn't delete the .Xauthority file. I think that was the problem. I reinstalled Lubuntu with the option to delete Ubuntu and then install Lubuntu. Now everything works as expected :)

Lubuntu Taskbar missing

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