2015-04-28 7:49 GMT+02:00 Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au>:
Hi,
Am running Linus Mint Qiana with the Mate interface. It's set to some classic mode, if I recall correctly (to look as similar as possible to an old Gnome style).
Normally, the "bottom panel"(?), along the bottom of the screen, displays these things... -- Towards the left: "Menu" (which leads to Shutdown, Search, and all the installed apps), and all created short-cut icons. -- Towards the right: Date, time, network connection icon, System Update icon, sound control icon. -- In the middle: Tab for each application that is currently open and running (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, etc.)
I'm not a mate expert, but usually such pannels are sort of "containers" of widget, which you can add picking them from a list. "Mint menu", "Clock", "Notification area" are some of such widgets, while (I think) "MATE panel" is the container itself. Well, at the beginning I thought "Window list" was the widget missing in your panel, but since you get the version info by right-clicking on the panel, I deduce actually it is there, so unfortunately I do not know what to say more. Anyway, you might try to add a widget to the panel (by right-clicking in a free area of it, basically where you got the "MATE panel" version info), and pick from the appearing list something which looks like a window list, and even desktop list/selector. Another possibility is that the "window list" widget dimension is too small (for example if you accidentally dragged it to the right). If you find it in the panel (as you actually did when you got its version), just try to drag to the left. Good luck! -- Mick