Questions tagged [panel]
Questions related to desktop environment panel(s), including appearance and customization. This could refer to the Panel in Unity, GNOME and other desktop environments. The Panel has icons for clock, sound volume, networking, etc.
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How to show kde panel at all monitors?
I have kubuntu 18.04 on my laptop. And I use additional 2 monitors.
The default kubuntu panel only shows up at primary monitor.
For now I just created new panel, but they are different.
And I should ...
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Gnome Panels and Task-Bar and Starter are gone / missing / disappeared
What happened?
Everything was working correctly, but then i did the following:
Today, i started Ubuntu not with my current kernel like normally, but with an older Kernel, because i wanted to try ...
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Viber icon missing on panel
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I've installed Viber and I'm struggling for days with this problem. My Viber icon is located at the top left corner, few milimeters to the right from the dash icon.
I have ...
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Can I display Chrome/Chromium tabs in the top panel?
Is it possible to display chrome/chromium tabs in the top panel of ubuntu 12.10?
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Can the unity panel calendar show my local public holidays?
I'm a Kubuntu user moving to Unity, one nice feature that the KDE panel calendar (the one that pops up when you click on the clock) had is that it indicated my local public holidays. I think each ...
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How can I change the date and time format in GNOME Shell's top bar?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I want date and time in GNOME Shell's top bar to have the following format:
Sun Jun 13 07:26AM IST 2021
instead of the current:
Jun 13 12:53 PM
How can I achieve this?
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Why do I have 2 Bluetooth Icons on my panel?
Im not sure I should be reporting this as a bug as it may have been something I have have done to cause this. I have duplicate icons on my Panel for bluetooth and would like to remove them both.
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Lubuntu - Network Manager Widget Closes Immediately After Open
Problem:
When I (right) click to open the Network Manager from the panel (in the bottom right), it opens for 0.5-2s before closing. This seems to be independent of mouse movement or clicking. This ...
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How to use a Unity like panel with Cinnamon desktop?
I want to use a panel/dock (like Unity) in the left side of Cinnamon Desktop.
I tried using Plank, and pinned it to the left side of the screen, but there is no way to set it always on top.
How to ...
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How can I restart the process that updates the desktop background?
I am not sure what I did, but something's caused the background of my desktop GUI (Lubuntu 22.04.3LTS, LXQt) to no longer refresh when a window closes or when I switch to a different virtual ...
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How can I stop windows opening under the LH menu bar?
Sometimes, not always, a window will open or expand, with no action on my part, such that it is under the left hand menu bar/panel.
If I'm lucky I can reduce/minimise the window then expand it and ...
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bring back gray dropbox icon
So, on ubuntu 20 and ubuntu 22, the dropbox icon on the top bar is always white.
I remember, on ubuntu 18, it was only white, when it was connected to the internet and was syncing or was fully synced....
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create a topbar shortcut to an .sh script
I want to be able to run a script with custom parameters via a shortcut in the top bar. On ubuntu 22.04.
I imagine it would look something like this
How can I make something like that?
Thanks
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Show dock only in activities
On my PC, I had a Hot-Corner with the action to open activities menu. The dock showed up only when I open the activities, and I liked that. Recently, I had problem with my display manager (which I ...
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Multiple audio player not showing in top panel
I always keep my playlist running in the YouTube music or Spotify and the song name and controls appear in the top panel when I'm working. But when I play a YouTube video in my browser, the player ...
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how can I get the UbuntuOne panel icon starting in the background via my .bashrc
Trying to get an indicator working to show UbuntuOne progress, like the Dropbox one.
This helped: Is there any way to get an indicator for Ubuntu One?
Also this http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/ubuntu-...
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Panel icons disappear at startup
Icons sometimes disappear from the Panel notification area when Ubuntu 14.04 starts up. Not the same icon disappears every time, and only one icon disappears at a time. This happens infrequently, and ...
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Gedit text editor bottom panel's purpose
I'm using Gedit and decided to explore its full functionality. There's a bottom panel available in Gedit that is normally hidden. When I pull it into view, it's empty. I'm wondering what it's for and ...
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How to fix missing panel in Ubuntu Studio 19.10?
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 ...
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Ubuntu Mate: mate-panel window buttons appeear only if panel is set to expand
I'm trying Ubuntu Mate. I've used GNOME2 bfoire (like a decade or something ago), and I'm a bit puzzled about the mate-panel behavior.
I always configured GNOME2 to have the window buttons in the top ...
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What's the command behind the Plasma shortcut to hide window title bar?
I know we can hide the title bar with a Kwin shortcut in Plasma (Meta-Alt-B) — but what about a button on the panel?
What is the command behind that shortcut?
I want to associate that command with a ...
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How can I hide redundant icon on task bar?
I am using xpad with dash to panel, and xpad icon is redundant: there is a tray icon on the right and whenever a new note is open, it also appears on running apps.
I understand this is not a bug but ...
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Panel on Kubuntu 23.04
I am technologically challenged - truly - but I try to sort things out for myself because thats how one learns. Even a senior such as I. My problem is that I wanted to re-arrange the icons at the ...
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How to find the location of a specific app (or .desktop file) visible in launcher
Sometimes I find an application very easily in the native Launcher, or even a third-party one like Synapse; but locating the corresponding app (or at least its .desktop file, which contains the path ...
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Expand mouse-wheel volume control to whole panel
There is one application I missed back from Windows and it is Volumouse. Simple yet effective app which enables you to control volume from the whole taskbar (panel) not just from indicator icon. ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 running via remote desktop has no desktop or taskbar
I'm on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04. I can only log in via remote desktop.
There is only an "activities" button and nothing else. There is no Desktop, no desktop icons, no task bar. The &...
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Launch Ubuntu Budgie Desktop Settings from Command Line-Cannot Open Start Menu
I installed Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 recently and made the mistake of removing the start/search menu icon from the panel. Now I cannot open the start/search menu at all and so cannot open Budgie desktop ...
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Auto hide ubuntu-budgie panel
Is there any way to make the ubuntu-budgie top panel auto hide ?
I like that desktop environnement a lot, but there is a lot of lost screen space when an application is maximized (an app like ...
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XFCE: Hiding an application from the taskbar
I am running Xubuntu 14.04.2 and running the standard window manager with the default window buttons applet through xfce4-panel. I need to hide an application from the taskbar so that it only appears ...
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How do I hide the top bar in Ubuntu (GNOME Shell)?
Is there any possibility to autohide the panel in GNOME 3 session?
In picture below I selected the area what I mean.
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Can KDE's system monitor widget be tweaked to look like this one in GNOME?
Compare Gnome (with "dash-to-panel"):
and KDE:
and notice the differences:
Gnome shows a nice multicolored system usage widget, where graphs flow slowly to the left, memory usage and file ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 using gnome-session-flashback top panel has lost Applications and Places icons, and bottom panel randomly reorganises icons
I am running Ubuntu 22.04, but like the classic menu look, so run with gnome-session-flashback. The other day, something happened, and the Application and Places icons disappeared. In addition, on the ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?
This is standard behaviour of all desktop messengers (Skype, Viber, Telegram, ..). All of them minimizes itself in system tray when Alt+F4 or close button is activated and they are running in ...
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How can I remove Cinnamon panel without being able to right click on it?
I wanted to move my bottom panel on my main monitor to the side, but I can't right click in the empty space and anywhere else I right click just gives me a menu for the specific thing that runs in the ...
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Windows appear behind the panel
When opening new windows in my Ubuntu 11.04 sometimes they are hidden behind the panel. I can grab them while pressing Alt+Button 1 but I would like to solve it so that they appear where they should.
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Top Bar to the bottom
Title says everything.
I am used to throwing my mouse to the top right corner and then closing stuff. In Ubuntu, I always have to aim. I see no benefit in having the bar at the top, the bottom is just ...
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MATE drawer config
I have a number of panel drawers on a Ubuntu MATE system (20.04.5 LTS) which contain a number of application launchers with fairly complex command arguments. I have another system running MATE (22.04....
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How to disable windows key, to not pop out the Advanced MATE Menu?
I use MATE Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04.
Advanced MATE Menu is at the left corner of the top panel.
Compared to the classic menu, the advanced menu has search ability, which I feel is more convenient.
But ...
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Show application menus in top panel XFCE
Hope you all doing well. My purpose is to have MacOS like application menu in xfce4 (Xubuntu 20). I mean this (I founded from the forum):
I googled a lot (even I searched a lot in this forum) and I ...
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Ubuntu Mate theme has no "Traditional" option after update to Jammy
I updated my computer, and now the theme is all screwed up. The panel applets in Mate don't work, the icons are wrong or missing. In Mate-Tweak, the option I would usually choose, "Traditional&...
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How do I change the Mega panel icon?
I want to change Mega's panel icon to better fit with my theme but I can't figure out what to name the icons. Has anyone managed to change Mega's icon?
I know how to change specific icons, but I just ...
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Add workspace matrix to panel [closed]
I'm setting up a laptop with Ubuntu 22.04. I'm used to showing the Workspace Matrix on the bottom panel, and being able to drag windows across to different workspaces.
Is there a way to do this with ...
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Is there any way to create shortcuts to open specific section of top panel
I know that I can use ctrl+alt+shift+tab to go to the top panel. But I want to create a keyboard shortcut to trigger sections of it (for example the top-right menu in the panel). Is there any way for ...
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How do I move clock to the right end of GNOME 3 Panel from the middle?
How do I move the clock to the right of the panel in Ubuntu GNOME?
In other words, I want the clock to be in the same place as in Ubuntu Unity 16.04.
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Duplicate panel items after upgrade to 21.04
Hi folks. I just upgraded from Xubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 and seem to have loads of dupes in my panel icons. Including 2 copies of redshift twice. Is this because I had indicator plugin and the upgrade ...
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How to disable gedit side panel?
How do i disable this stupid side panel of gedit, that somehow appeared?
There is nothing in the settings or plugins.
Tried rm -r -f ~/.config/gedit as well, with no success.
I don't have big screen ...
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Dash to Panel GNOME extension icons grouped to left side of panel
I have the Dash to Panel GNOME extension installed, and I don't know what happened, but for some reason all the apps and icons are grouped to the left side of the panel and won't move. See the ...
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What is this "forbidden" icon in my systray?
The following is a systray applet icon that appeared in my Unity session after I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10. Its menu is tall, narrow and empty. What is it?
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Budgie - Panel, Dock mode; customization, modification
Please, is it possible to modify the corners of the panel in dock mode, but only the dock, keeping a top panel straight? Themes like Mojave or Plata seem to have this. If I create a gtk.css (with ...
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Option to add application launcher to panel "as widget" (not pin) is absent in Kubuntu 22.04
There is a difference between pinning an application launcher (to the taskbar) and adding as a widget (to panel): the pinned icon goes away when you open the application, the widget icon stays there ...
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