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The top panel in Ubuntu studio vanished from my system. I have tried several suggested methods to restore it, but none have worked.

Today, I reinstalled the OS, but the panel is still gone. When I try to restore it with:

xfce4-panel -r

or open panel settings, I get an error message saying they failed and:

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

I was getting that error both before and after reinstalling Ubuntu Studio.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Al Preston
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try running xfce4-panel once on the terminal. Works for me. I don't even know why that happened to me at one time. Probably needs to be launched again because it suddenly crashed, and it didn't have a way on restarting the program.

cindrmon
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Simple workaround which may help if xfce4-panel -r crashed

  1. on the first terminal run xfce4-panel which should launch panel
  2. on the second terminal run xfce4-panel -r which should restart panel
  3. close both terminals
pymen
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Don't run the command as the root user. Running it as a normal user will fix the issue.

BeastOfCaerbannog
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Abhishek Morla
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For me, closing all applications in the current session and upgrading to xfce4-panel 4.18.4 solved the problem. However, I'm not entirely certain whether the upgrade was necessary.

Tomasz Waszczyk
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