How To Fix Xfce4-Panel Crashes In Manjaro Linux

Hi Readers,

In this post we’re going look at how to fix XFCE Panel crashes in Manjaro Linux.

What is the Cause?

XFCE Panel is crashing because: a running application is uses a font type in its title, since this type font (normally ttf and especially ttf-droid) is not installed the panel crushes.

Screenshot - 11302014 - 04:47:11 PM

Solution

To fix this we need to install ttf-droid font. It is available in the main repo.

To install, Open Terminal and run the commands below:

sudo pacman -S ttf-droid
[sudo] password for setho:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (1): ttf-droid-20121017-3
Total Download Size: 3.53 MiB
Total Installed Size: 15.31 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages ...
ttf-droid-20121017-... 3.5 MiB 21.1K/s 02:51 [##########################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring               [##########################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity             [##########################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                  [##########################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts            [##########################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space          [##########################] 100%
(1/1) installing ttf-droid                   [##########################] 100%
Updating font cache... done.

After installation you should be able to access files and sites with Chinese and other fonts in their tile. For me, it was VLC Player.

Enjoy!