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Questions tagged [main-desktop-panel]

For questions about a desktop environment's main panel, used to hold common elements like the applications menu, clock, notifications, application and utility launchers, etc. It is typically anchored to the bottom, top, or left edge of the screen. Use the dedicated tag instead if it exists: [taskbar] for Windows, [gnome-panel], etc.

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In Linux Mate, how do you adjust the position of the separators / dividers on the panel?

In the Mate GUI (Linux Mint), my icons by the time are only given half the space of the entire panel / task bar. It really looks like that division of the panel is meant to be much smaller. Obviously, they don't need all that space. The open program…
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How to remove the three dot move grabber from Notification area in MATE

I have a fresh install of Manjaro using MATE, and I can't for the life of me find out how to remove these dots that show up on the Window List and Notification Area panel applets. I've installed MATE through Ubuntu before, but never on Manjaro. I…
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XFCE: active panel buttons when mouse is on screen edge

I'm using XFCE 4.6.1 (Xubuntu distribution) on my laptop and main computer; the settings are approximately the same. so far for the intro. What I'm experiencing is that when going to the screen edge over the task bar on the laptop, the button under…
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Adding Date & Time to Cinnamon panel on Mint

I accidentally removed the Time displayed in Cinnamon's system tray on my Linux Mint, and am not sure how to add it back. It doesn't seem to be available among the options in the Applets window (that comes up on choosing "Add applets to the panel"),…
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XFCE 4 panel show delay

I'm using Arch Linux with XFCE 4.10. I have two auto hide panels - one on the bottom (Windows style) and one on top for status information (temperature, fans etc). Is there a way to set some delay, to define how much time mouse pointer has to be…
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Is it possible to have a choice of default sorting order for windows with drag-and-drop enabled?

By default, XFCE does not allow you to reorder the windows in a panel by dragging and dropping them. If you go in to the Window Buttons settings for your panel (under Panel Preferences), you can disable the sorting order for a panel's windows and…
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Hiding the full username in Ubuntu's Panel

Is there any way to hide the full user's name in Ubuntu's/Unity's Panel? i.e. the one that is displayed next to the small user icon.
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Saving an edit to a Mate panel feature or, copy or paste an icon added to the panel?

I edited some frames from the Internet (cut and attached them) and used them in an existing feature in the Mate panel, called Fish. I can't seem to save the customization I made, so I am manually remaking the edit again and again. I am sure there…
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ordering of the items in my Linux Mint Panel messed up

I have been using Linux Mint for about 2 months, so far so good. But today after I turned on my computer, I found that ordering of my items in the panel got messed up: normally I should have my date/time item on the right-most location, but now it…
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