BenFenner wrote: ⤴Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:27 am
Thanks for the tip ghlee. If I see the issue again, I'll put that command in a start-up task, maybe delayed by a few seconds.
(I'm already having to run
compiz --replace ccp 1 second after boot-up to get Compiz to actually "Place Windows".)
You could add a launcher to your panel for a script that just does the killall to refresh the panel...
To create a script, open a Terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T), then copy-and-paste the following two commands, one at a time...
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sudo touch /usr/local/bin/panel-refresh
xed admin:///usr/local/bin/panel-refresh
The first command creates a file 'panel-refresh', and the second command opens the empty file with xed text editor in root mode.
With the following, do SELECT ALL to copy the entire block of script code...
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to refresh MATE panel. All panel customizations are preserved.
# Make this script executable with 'chmod +x scriptname'
#
/usr/bin/killall mate-panel
exit
#
...then tap Ctrl-V to paste the code into the xed editor. Save and close the file.
Make the script executable...
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sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/panel-refresh
The script is located in a user app search-path subdirectory -- /usr/local/bin -- so you can just type
panel-refresh from anywhere on your system.
Use MATE's
Add to Panel > Custom Application Launcher, to add a panel launcher for your new panel-refresh script.
Then just click your script launcher any time to quickly and easily refresh your panel.
I don't use compiz, but you should be able to add the line
/usr/bin/compiz --replace ccp into your panel-refresh script, immediately ahead of the concluding
exit command. Or, if it works better, replace the killall command-line entirely with your compiz command-line.
