# Top Panel ignoring or moving spacers

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [November 20, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484 "2021-11-20T17:06:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jothite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jothite](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jothite)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484/1 "2021-11-20T17:06:57Z")

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I do not like the “normal” spacing for the top panel icons. It looks like trash honestly. But I added custom spacing and arranged things so it looks a little more uniform. Except Budgie just randomly decides to completely ignore or move the spacers wherever it feels like. I open the settings, nothing has changed, but in the top panel the spacing is just awful. What is wrong with this?  
Here you can see that the power, notification, and bluetooth are all wrong. Also, the clipboard, frequency, and screenshot are wrong.

 ![Screenshot from 2021-11-20 11:59:00](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/d/d1cc301f95a3974da0fd8a6e4aa5b18e62c61ac0.png)

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**Author:** ![jothite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jothite](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jothite)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484/2 "2021-11-20T17:07:31Z")

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But in the settings, everything is still correctly spaced.

 ![Screenshot from 2021-11-20 12:00:52](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/b/b6e3937b2c3728426829064587a80c66c30e9890.png)

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**Author:** ![jothite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jothite](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jothite)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484/3 "2021-11-20T17:11:15Z")

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This is how it should look based on the current configuration.  
 ![Screenshot from 2021-11-20 12:10:37](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/2/23e7232471e412e6fbaf663243e19a18b8bbd904.png)

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484/4 "2021-11-20T21:51:44Z")

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When applets start to wander around that is because the panel gsettings info has become corrupted.

Usually this happens if you uninstall an applet that was expected in a layout, logout and login. Once done there isn’t a way back to resolve… even if you reinstall the applet again.

Occasionally the panel can become corrupted if you have had a whole session crash or you have unexpectedly powered off your machine … e.g. running out of battery power.

Basically the only way to recover is to reset the panel back to its defaults and redo your config again.

```
nohup budgie-panel --reset --replace &

```

Note you can backup your panel settings ab restore again if it messes up again.

> [@Export Budgie Desktop settings to another session?](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/export-budgie-desktop-settings-to-another-session/3322/3):
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> Hi, Usually I do this way: dump dconf configurations that I want to export, eg: dconf dump /org/ubuntubudgie/plugins/budgie-showtime/ \> showTime.dconf and load it by the means of a script like dconf load /org/ubuntubudgie/plugins/budgie-showtime/ \< showTime.dconf Otherwise is possible to save and replace .config/dconf/user from one user to another but doing that in chroot when building my customized iso not always works (and don’t ask me why wink ) Sil

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**Author:** ![jothite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jothite](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jothite)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484/5 "2021-11-20T22:22:03Z")

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I haven’t uninstalled any applets since I first installed Budgie in 20.04. It’s always done this, I just never bothered trying to fix it. All I have to do to “fix it” is move the spacers back and forth one position and it works fine.  
But what you are suggesting sounds like a bug by itself. You should be able to uninstall an applet without breaking the entire panel.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/top-panel-ignoring-or-moving-spacers/5484/6 "2021-11-20T22:32:46Z")

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I agree with you. It is a bug … its the sort of thing waiting for anyone who wants a challenge to resolve.