Deleted Xfce Panel

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Anyomonous Z

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Jun 18, 2018, 10:09:23 PM6/18/18
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Tldr;

I accidentally deleted the main Xfce panel on Dom 0 using the panel application.

How do I get the default one back?

I tried to recreate the main Xfce using the panel application, but I failed. There's no 'mount to qube VM' & no 'network connections.' There is similar ones, but they don't work like the originals. Also, you can't set certain panel items all the way to either the left, right, or center. The time was originally positioned all the way to the right.

Thanks! I hope you can help. =)
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Anyomonous Z

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Jun 23, 2018, 11:21:48 PM6/23/18
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I found a solution to restore Xfce. The other method I found didn't work, but this does.

XFCE stores it's configuration for the running session in xfconfd. Feel free to back up the files you're going to delete first.

Shut down the panel first, xfce4-panel --quit
Kill the xfce4 configuration daemon, pkill xfconfd
First delete settings for the panel, rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel
Clear out the settings for xfconfd, rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml
Restart the panel, run xfce4-panel. This will respawn xfconfd automatically. Note if you need or want to restart xfconfd manually know that on my installation it was in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd which was outside of $PATH.
This clears it for the running session, regenerates the files, and sets up the default for future sessions.

Want it in one line?
xfce4-panel --quit ; pkill xfconfd ; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml ; xfce4-panel;
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