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bendipa

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Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 17

[re]Starting Xfce panel

If I kill my xfce panel, then restart it in the terminal with xfce4-panel a heap of errors/warnings are shown.

The panel at that point re-appears, although the command will not complete. If I hit Cntrl+C, that kills the command, the panel then disappears. The only way to retain the the panel is to close the terminal which then gives me a warning that a command is in process. If I ignore this, the terminal closes, the panel temporarily closes then quickly re-appears.

This cannot be the correct procedure to [re]start a panel in the terminal, even though that command  is what is shown on Xfce's documentation, which is clearly wrong.

Does anyone know the correct method?

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: [re]Starting Xfce panel

Next time use code tags. Images can't be indexed for the search and this one is barely readable.

Those debug messages are safe to ignore. If you want to return to the controlling terminal, run the command in the background:

xfce4-panel &

or even:

xfce4-panel 2>/dev/null &

to redirect stderr to the data sink aka bit bucket.
More on shell syntax: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

Note that to restart the panel, you should run:

xfce4-panel -r

The documentation is not wrong.

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bendipa

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Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 17

Re: [re]Starting Xfce panel

These are not just debug messages. They are error messages, and the command 'xfce4-panel', whether one puts an ampersand at the end of it or otherwise, it does not complete. It causes the terminal/bash to hang. So obviously there's an issue here. Just ignoring what I've tried to point out to you does not solve this.