I am running Xubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Xfce 4.12
I have customized the panel, but after saving the changes I got the message:
"Please restart the panel for visibility changes to take effect."
How can I restart the panel?
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You could try rebooting – M. Becerra Mar 09 '17 at 16:57
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To restart the panel, open the terminal and run the following command:
xfce4-panel -r
Your changes should be visible now.
The -r option stands for restart, as described in the man page:
-r, --restart
Restart the running panel instance
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2In my case the -r only stopped and not started the panel :\ Could be me.. – Melroy van den Berg Sep 09 '21 at 19:36
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2For me, this made the panel vanish completely, and furthermore the panel configuration tool from the Settings Manager will no longer launch. (On 19.10 now.) – Pointy Oct 02 '21 at 14:31
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Worked for display problems in Linux Lite which internally uses xfce as DE – Cadoiz Sep 13 '22 at 06:08
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This also just made the panel disappear just now (and the process stop, as observed by ps). – Paŭlo Ebermann Nov 01 '22 at 11:10
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Sometimes I find that, xfce panel is gone. Therefore I need to restart the panel.
Above restart process do not work 100%. In my system, it cannot initialize session-buttons and other add-on(s).
To complete panel restart, just open the task manager and kill the xfce4-panel process. Don't worry. System will restart the panel just after is has been killed.
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If you think you'd be better off killing the panel process first, try this:
#!/bin/sh
panelcommand=$(ps aux | grep -e "xfce4-panel" | grep -e "--display" | awk '{print $11,$12,$13,$14,$15}')
ps aux | grep -e "xfce4-panel" | grep -e "--display" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
$panelcommand
Works fine in Debian 07 (Wheezy).
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