I am running Xubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Xfce 4.12
I have customized the panel, but after saving the changes I got the message:
"Please restart the panel for visibility changes to take effect."
How can I restart the panel?
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You could try rebooting– M. BecerraCommented Mar 9, 2017 at 16:57
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4 Answers
To restart the panel, open the terminal and run the following command:
xfce4-panel -r
Your changes should be visible now.
The -r option stands for restart, as described in the man page:
-r, --restart
Restart the running panel instance
answered Mar 9, 2017 at 12:00
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2In my case the -r only stopped and not started the panel :\ Could be me.. Commented Sep 9, 2021 at 19:36
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2For me, this made the panel vanish completely, and furthermore the panel configuration tool from the Settings Manager will no longer launch. (On 19.10 now.)– PointyCommented Oct 2, 2021 at 14:31
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Worked for display problems in Linux Lite which internally uses xfce as DE– CadoizCommented Sep 13, 2022 at 6:08
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This also just made the panel disappear just now (and the process stop, as observed by ps). Commented Nov 1, 2022 at 11:10
Sometimes I find that, xfce panel is gone. Therefore I need to restart the panel.
Above restart process do not work 100%. In my system, it cannot initialize session-buttons and other add-on(s).
To complete panel restart, just open the task manager and kill the xfce4-panel process. Don't worry. System will restart the panel just after is has been killed.
pkill xfce4-panel ; xfce4-panel &
If you think you'd be better off killing the panel process first, try this:
#!/bin/sh
panelcommand=$(ps aux | grep -e "xfce4-panel" | grep -e "--display" | awk '{print $11,$12,$13,$14,$15}')
ps aux | grep -e "xfce4-panel" | grep -e "--display" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
$panelcommand
Works fine in Debian 07 (Wheezy).
