What to do to restore the top panel?

[qubesqubes]

When I run * xfce4-panel --restart I get the message:

Failed to restart the panel
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
The name is not activatable

What to do to restore the panel?

Please help.

[aronowski]

Without providing a context, I can only guess this question is about this issue.

If I’m right, then press Alt + F4 on the desktop, logout and login back. It should reappear, although there may be some glitches related to icons - instead of those colorful sanitized application icons, generic colorful qube icons may be appearing.

If I’m wrong, then please, shed some more light on the matter.

[DVM]

Have you tried this:

Panel is gone

@Qubes_User171 should start terminal in dom0, execute xfce4-panel. Panel will show up. Then it is needed forcibly to close the terminal regardless of the warning. The panel will disappear and reappear in a flash second. It usually happens when using context menu while on panel which somehow triggers closing the panel without the warning.

and this:

Qubes 4.1 top bar disappeared

Hello, thank you for your answer. Following your guide I got an error restarting it. The solution was xfce4-panel --disable-wm-check, still I would like you to verify if that hasnt any security issues to disable WM check or should I try another way?

[qubesqubes]

Thank you friends.

The panel appeared back on its own.

[aquser]

Right click anywhere on the desktop, then open a terminal.

Run this:

xfce-panel &

This starts the panel and detaches it from the terminal. Without the &, it will crash when you close the terminal.