XFCE Panel Clock Disappears

Question

Like it says in the title. Fresh XFCE install over Ubuntu. Whenever I try to change the clock format through Right-Click>Panel>Preferences, the clock disappears as soon as I close the window. I have to go back to Panel Preferences and remove and re-add the clock applet to make it come back, and then my format changes never stick.

Is there a fix for this, or possibly a less buggy clock applet for the panel I could be using?

score 16 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 29 '17 at 15:50

I had the same problem and found a workaround.

Right click the clock panel (or access from panel preferences) and set the configuration you want but do NOT close the properties window. Instead, while leaving it open, logout and log back in. The clock should reappear with the preferences you set. For some reason closing the properties window seems to reset the settings to blank custom fields, which makes the clock disappear.

score 15 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 14 '19 at 06:49

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Best workaround as commented by https://askubuntu.com/users/513351/ali-caglayan but as an answer:

Change the properties but don't close the window.

then restart the panel,

xfce4-panel --restart

edited Jul 14 '19 at 06:49

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answered Feb 17 '19 at 23:39

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score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 05 '19 at 12:18

My way around this was to set it to what I want. and without closing the clock properties.

I open terminal and run this command

killall xfce4-panel

followed by this command

xfce4-panel &

Then you can close terminal (which may make the panel refresh again). But my settings I picked for my clock remained. The properties thing is just all kinds of borked up. It was broken like this while it was still a beta. Figured it be fixed by the time it it was released. But nope, clearly no.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 12:28

I just ran into the same thing (I'm brand new to XFCE). The panel clock seems to be very sensitive to configuration changes. Some settings combinations simply don't work and the clock disappears. I found the Items tab in the Panel Preferences dialog and discovered that I had wound up with seven instances of the panel clock running; all displaying nothing. I deleted them and installed the Orage Panel Clock which was bundled with XFCE. It's been working fine since.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 17 '19 at 07:16

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As a workaround, don't close the Panel Preferences window with the Close button when you're done. Instead close the window with the "X" button to the top right.

edited Jun 17 '19 at 07:16

Martin Thornton

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answered Jun 16 '19 at 12:49

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XFCE Panel Clock Disappears

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