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As I have said in the title, I would like to know if there is any way to restart the task bar in Ubuntu MATE. I have had my top and bottom bars crash on me several times, which means that I could do nothing besides shut down and reboot.

Of course, I would much rather just reload the bar and continue with whatever I am doing, if it is possible.

Does anyone know how to do this? I have found similar questions, but only applying to the Unity menu bar.

Thanks in advance.

hat
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MATE panels are created with mate-panel executable, so for reloading them you should execute in terminal mate-panel --replace & or mate-panel --replace in Run Application launcher (called by Alt+F2) .

N0rbert
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  • Thank you @N0rbert, I will test this out to see if it solves the problem. – hat Nov 20 '17 at 05:06
  • I get this: ** (mate-panel:26518): WARNING **: Cannot register the panel shell: The given address is empty when I try mate-panel --replace & – Max Williams Jun 14 '21 at 08:37
  • If crashing or corruption of the MATE panels is recurring problem, it is best to create a launcher on the desktop that executes "mate-panel --replace", because access to the terminal or the Run Button applet may not be possible. – Andrew P. Nov 04 '24 at 23:19