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Thread: Panel gone haywire!

  1. #1
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    Ubuntu Studio 20.04 Focal Fossa

    Panel gone haywire!

    I had Ubuntu Studio 18.04LTS. My panel went missing. I started it via terminal. After that, every boot, I got a stack of repeat instances of error messages.

    "GDBus.errorrg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.xfce.Panel was not provided by any .service files"

    "Modifying the panel is not allowed: Because the panel is running in kiosk mode, you are not allowed to make changes to the panel configuration as a regular user."

    Of course, there was no panel visible to make changes to until after I'd started a new one every time!

    When I started the new instance the first time, the old panel was replaced by a new default panel. I added launchers, the new one stuck around. I still had to go through the above scenario every reboot.

    This weekend, I upgraded, via the software updater, to Ubuntu Studio 20.04LTS. New panel problem! Now when I start, I still get "GDBusErrorrg.freedesktop.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.Xfce.panel was not provided by any .service files." I don't get the other message any more.

    The panel is there at start, but it's got a blinking red border, as if it's being edited. I open the Panel settings in Settings Manager, close it, and no more blinking.

    I tried to have a look at the Xfce4panel.xml file, but there isn't one. I am utterly confused about what's happening here! Any help appreciated.

  2. #2
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    Ubuntu Mate 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

    Re: Panel gone haywire!

    Not sure what the problem is but the xfce4 panel settings are stored in ~/.config/xfce4/panel. Hope this is useful.
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  3. #3
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    Re: Panel gone haywire!

    Hmm. I thought the panel settings were in the xfce4-panel.xml? I'm thoroughly pizzled now. Before, there was no xfce4-panel.xml at all. Now it's there. Nothing in the file seems to be relevant to the problem, though. And I get a new error message at boot (sorry, don't remember it perfectly) saying something like "unable to open preferences." I get two of those. Then I open the panel settings, close them, voila. So weird.

  4. #4
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    Re: Panel gone haywire!

    I'm not entirely sure which piece of the puzzle solved my problem. It was exacerbated by another weird issue of a lock screen that led to a second lock screen in which the keyboard wouldn't work. No idea if it's related.

    But here's what solved it: switched to Gnome desktop. Switched back to xfce (Ubuntu Studio). No more issues on either front. So far.

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