mate-panel(1)

mate-panel1

The panel for the mate desktop environment

Usage

mate-panel [OPTIONS]

Overview

The mate-panel program provides the panels for the the MATE Desktop Environment. It is the area on your desktop from which you can run applications and applets, and perform other tasks. New applets may also be installed ,added to, or removed from the panels.

By default, mate-panel typically creates a panel on the top of the screen with applets such as a Menu Bar, Notification Area, and Clock; While creating a second panel on the bottom of the screen with a Window List and a Workspace Switcher. Panels can be created, deleted, moved around the desktop, and to other monitors.

This manual page documents the mate-panel command.

Options

--replace

Replace a currently running instance of mate-panel.

--reset

Reset the panel configuration to the default setting.

--run-dialog

Open the "Run Application" dialog, also accessible by pressing ALT+F2.

--display=DISPLAY

X display to use.

-?, -h, --help

Print standard command line options.

--help-all

Print all command line options.

This program also accepts the standard GTK options.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Bugs

Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:

http://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues

Authors

This Man Page has been written for the MATE Desktop Environment by:

Adam Erdman <[email protected]> (2014)

From mate-panel 1.28.7-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.