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21.04 MATE up to date today.

My MATE desktop comes up without panels. Each time I have to issue

$ mate-panel reset

This restores the panel but also displays the message

Unable to open desktop file screensaver.toggle.desktop for panel launcher
Unable to open desktop file timer.desktop for panel launcher
Unable to open desktop file display.flip.desktop for panel launcher
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/mate/applications/spotify.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
....
Unable to open desktop file caja-1.desktop for panel launcher
Unable to open desktop file caja-2.desktop for panel launcher

However from this list I can find these files :

 /usr/share/**mate**/applications/spotify.desktop 
./.local/share/applications/timer.desktop

The only panel references in the journal are about successful activation.

Stephen Boston
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1 Answers1

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To reset MATE Panel you can use one of the methods below:

  • Restart MATE Panel manually with its current settings using mate-panel --replace &
  • Change panel layout using MATE Tweak (mate-tweak) - go to Panel tab and then change panel layout to some other and then back to current
  • Backup current MATE Panel configuration by dconf dump /org/mate/panel/ > ~/dconf-mate-panel and then reset it using dconf reset -f /org/mate/panel/ or mate-panel --reset
N0rbert
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