Xfce4 panel is broken, how to restore it to the default panel without exiting the current desktop？

Issue:

Xfce4 panel is broken.

if you selected the 'One empty panel' option, then your desktop will look like the below,

open a terminal, then minimize the terminal, and it is gone nowhere,

So, how to restore xfce4-panel to the default?

Resolution:

1. bakcup your xfce4 config

cp -r ~/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4_bak

2. kill Xfce configuration daemon,

pkill xfconfd

3. delete existing config,

rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

4. restart xfce4-panel

nohup xfce4-panel -r &

5. then select 'Use default config'

Done.

Script is in restore-xfce4-panel.sh · master · wanlinwang / scripts · GitCodeGitCode——开源代码托管平台，独立第三方开源社区，Git/Github/Gitlabhttps://gitcode.net/wanlinwang/scripts/-/blob/master/restore-xfce4-panel.sh