Top Panel ignoring or moving spacers

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.