How to rearrange icons in panel of Linux Mint 20?

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How to rearrange icons in panel of Linux Mint 20?

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Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon is installed. I have several windows of the Terminal in the panel, shown by a single icon with the number of windows displayed in the upper left corner of the icon. I would like to have these appear as separate icons in the panel, and be able to rearrange them by clicking and dragging to a new location in the panel. I have disabled window thumbnails on hover, if that makes any difference. Thanks for guidance!
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Re: How to rearrange icons in panel of Linux Mint 20?

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Grouped panel icons are enabled by default.
Right click the icon and choose Preferences, then under Configure
you will see how to disable grouping
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Re: How to rearrange icons in panel of Linux Mint 20?

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I disabled grouping and now only one Terminal icon appears in the panel even though I open several windows of Terminal. Further, now when I try to add an icon to the panel, it duplicates three existing icons on both the left and right side of the panel.

The panel settings are badly messed up. I reset Applets and turned off "Show thumbnails" in the Grouped Window List. Now the windows of each separate icon appear in the panel (as I want), but still am unable to click and drag each one to a different location on the panel.
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