Restoring the Xfce panels

One question that people looking for help with Xubuntu often have is some form of “my panels/taskbar/menu disappeared”. Unfortunately, this is something that happens quite frequently.

The good news is that this is fixed easily. All that’s required is to press Alt + F2 to bring forward the Run program window, and run the command xfce4-panel .







Not only is this a quick fix for the problem, it also makes for a quick blog post that might still help quite a few people 😉

Update: Xubuntu 9.04 will include Xfce 4.6 which should be able to automatically restore the panel in the event of a crash. Hooray 🙂

Update to that: According to willerlite, the panels do not automatically re-appear. Hmm :S