[SOLVED] System Tray Default Settings

[Jocklad]

Is there a Terminal command to get the system tray back to default settings in LL 2.2
A friend has really messed his up.

Jocklad

[Scott(0)]

Hi Jocklad,

I'm not aware of a terminal command but that means one probably does exist. In the meantime would creating a new user so you could log into that account and make notes on the default tray settings help?

[Jocklad]

Thanks Scott will have another look at it.

Jocklad

[rokytnji]

Code:

Is there a Terminal command to get the system tray back to default settings in LL 2.2

Yes. But it involves deleting some files in config to bring it back to stock so I would wait for jerry or misko
to supply a answer. I will not supply the command myself.

[gold_finger]

Jocklad,

Don't know if there is a command to start fresh with standard LL panel.  Don't know exactly what your friend's problem is, but have him look at this section of help manual to delete/add things until it's back to what he wants:  https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/custo...html#panel

Or, delete /home/hisusername/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml.  Then log out and back in again.  At login it will ask if want a default setup or just one blank panel.  (Default in this situation is NOT an LL default -- it's a standard Xfce default with a top and bottom panel.  Might be best to pick option for one blank panel, then just add things on to it following above Help Manual page.)

[Jocklad]

Thanks Gold_finger.

I will see him in the next couple of days and try that.

Many thanks.

Jocklad 

[shengchieh]

Will this workaround work?  Others correct me if not.

Create another user - let that user have root access.
Move all your file to that user.
Remove bad user.  (? Can that bad user be remove if it was the principle user in installation?)
Create 2nd new user with same name as bad user and root access.
Move everything back to 2nd user.

Others, what do think?

Sheng-Chieh

[Jocklad]

Many thanks to you all.

I managed to create a new systray with the help of Goldfingers link.

All is well.

I will mark this as solved.

Jocklad 

[Jocklad]

Just to add:

When i created the new systray it was at the top of the screen,I really wanted it at the bottom.

Solution is simple:

Right click on systray and unlock,drag the tray to bottom with the mouse and re-lock.

Simple as that.

It may help someone else.

Jocklad 

[anon222]

This is how I reset the panel:
First I quit the panel

Code:

xfce4-panel --quit

Then I kill the xfce4 configuration daemon

Code:

pkill xfconfd

Remove the config files

Code:

rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4

And clear the session as well.

Code:

rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4-session

Copy the default configuration from the skeleton folder.

Code:

cp -Rf /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4

Code:

cp -Rf /etc/skel/.config/xfce4-session ~/.config/xfce4-session

And finally I restart the panel. This will also respawn tne xfce4 configuration daemon.

Code:

xfce4-panel

Instead of running all the commands line by line I use this oneliner:

Code:

xfce4-panel --quit ; pkill xfconfd ; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4-session ; cp -Rf /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4; cp -Rf /etc/skel/.config/xfce4-session ~/.config/xfce4-session ; xfce4-panel

What you did was this:

Code:

xfce4-panel --quit ; pkill xfconfd ; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml ; xfce4-panel;

That removes the panel an then asks you to use default xfce4 configuration or a blank panel.