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As a newbie learning/shallowly experimenting with XFCE who has probably done many "experiments"/mistakes, I've noticed the panel profile didn't work from the menu (silently - nothing happens) or from the "more centrilized" settings/center/screen or control pannel, however it's called.

Today I had the idea of using the command line to try (with save), and noticed psutils or something like that is missing. installed psutils, this didn't solve the issue. then installed the python-psutil, voila it seems to work - both on the command like and GUI. (hadn't tested throughly, but it allegedly saves and a graphical instance can be opened as normally)

Noting that I don't know what was causing this and if it was so for the vanila solus XFCE installation, can't report accurately but wanted to note on a potencially missing dependency (I don't know accurately which) for panel-profiles on XFCE, a dependency somehow possibly related to python-psutil. (no idea if it's 100% sure and if it's so, if it's the single missing one)

Either way thank you very much for making a very nice Solus XFCE desktop for us 🙂

Update: No it still doesn't work right for me (regarding save/load)

Enother update: Managed, though lost initial configuration despite trying to save it.
No matter, now I adjusted it as I liked and save/load is possible. Possibly I saved with wrong procedure/extension (user error) before. Or maybe it happened as a possible dependency was installed late - no idea.

It is fine for me now, though I don't know how it's like on vanila Solus.
To clarify: Up to now, as a newbie, I like XFCE and experimenting while having some kind of a system agnostic backup (most configurations not included) in case things go wrongly.

    Stumbled-Upon ", I've noticed the panel profile didn't work from the menu (silently - nothing happens) or from the "more centrilized" settings/center/screen or control pannel, however it's called."

    you make a good point in your first post about too many settings menus. that's the nature of xfce and the distro it's replacing, Mate.

    If you love the DE, like I did, the 'decentralized' coat of many menus is/was part of its charm. XFCE is Beta, I had fun with it for a month, and nuked it yesterday, since Budgie is pretty much my comfort zone and maybe Plasma Solus will move there, maybe crazy wonderful little Alpine, or Bunsen, who knows.

    What's my point? Let me finish this lager. Since you pointed out 2 ways to skin a cat with the profile, I'd like to say I have no idea what you are talking about exactly unless you mean how the panel looks and behaves in relation to a profile?

    If that's the case I take the cursor on a bare patch of panel and right-click and select properties and that itself is comprehensive and will, I believe, manage a profile, all with GUI. I don't know what you were doing inxfce-terminal up there. but I really think I'm missing something. edit/formatting

      Thank you, but I meant to relay something else mainly. I like having a centralized place but I do like those 2 ways of skin a cat - how you reffered to it. I liked that redundancy (but still kept in order in a way) in that case.

      I can't give the error since all is fine now after I installed python-psutil and then saved the menu.
      Before I installed python-psutil I couldn't open panel profiles at all.

      Command line error from before I installed python-psutil was something like - "missing module psutil". (I then installed psutils, saw no change, then installed pyhton-psutil, which THEN allowed me to open pannel profile from any place.)

      I had some other obscure error after saving by the commandline without a suffix and trying to load it - "no such file or directory" or something like that. This is my error probably (missed postfix? other wrong use of command/procedure?). And I couldn't load that old original save by doing simple tasks on the UI as well.

      Save and load of the actual saved profile (I had some other error meanwhile/in between which I don't well remember enough to minimally described, of "wrong" configuration loaded at 1st,) only worked correctly for me after I initially had chosen a pre-built profile, modified and saved it, which by the UI ofc also added the archive postfix automatically. (in this case I savd and loaded by the UI, but I believe it now works everywhere.)

      Now all is fine. But as said, I had to install python-psutil for it to work (or even start) for me.
      I hope it's clear now and thank you for your reading and response.
      Forgot to mention @brent

      @brent I forgot to reply/emphasize/clarify clearly regarding something more specific- it's either the "Panel Profiles" app (from the whisker menu) or the equivalent command line starting with "xfce4-panel-profiles".

      Tried to elaborate above but couldn't give the exact error since I no longer having that error. (that's a good thing) and all works fine for me by now. What I remembered is in the upper post.

      But only installing python psutil had enabled me to activate both even if I had a minor issue at 1st which was also solved meanwhile (personally it solved for me after starting from a built-in config on the GUI then changing and saving it (under a different name OFC))

      P.S. On a more personal note, beside XFCE, I, too, like budgie and KDE. Each of the two others is relatively good for me, and yet each has a reason for me (or something which bothers me/isn't ideal for me) to go try other, so here I am on XFCE. For now I'm using XFCE and ATM finding it very nice. Yes, I understand it's considered Beta.

      I'm happy to inform you I managed to correct (my own error with) the old settings I saved by the command line. Using the import on the GUI worked. I am unsure what was changed if any. (also wanted to say I am very happy with the recent update of XFCE, mainly but not only since I use 2 language on the computer and bless the kb layout indicator/switcher on the panel.) -Edited for correction.

      But as said, and just to avoid misundertsandings, the above is not related to the iniailly missed python-psutil - which was needed for me for activating either xfce4-panel-profiles or the equivalent whisker's/settings manager application "Panel Profiles" (on command line, without it I would have gotten some kind of a missing psutil module error)

      So as said, I still think there is a likely missed (run?) dependency on the vanila install, unless something in my system had caused a removal of such by accident and unknowingly, and while as said the issue is solved for me (after intalling python-psutil) in this way I conclude the post to notify my experience since it may be important for other users of "Panel Profiles" or the equivalent command line utility. But all works nicely by now after installing it 🙂

      Thank you (using bold was only due to phrasing difficulties and trying to show key sentences). Can be closed but maybe people want to use the information here.