Task Panel Icons on Wrong Side & TOO TINY After 21.3 upgrade

[Ysalys]

Upgraded yesterday, and all looked good.
Then booted up laptop this morning, and the task bar icons are way over on the right side, tiny, and cannot be moved to the left side, beside the Menu and Desktop Icons on the left. This is the before and after Upgrade:

If anyone knows the solution PLEASE HELP... this is messing me up royally in my daily work.

Thanks in advance, Kate

[JerryF]

When asking for help, always post your system's information:

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Click the Copy button and then paste the results into a reply window here so we can see how Linux Mint views your hardware.

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[billyswong]

The usual way to move items in panel for Cinnamon is by right click empty space on panel > toggle on "panel edit mode" > drag the item to left/middle/right highlighted region > toggle off "panel edit mode".

[Ysalys]

Sorry, and thanks for reminding me. lol Here's my system info

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-92-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4
    tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 17z-cp000 v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 88C6 v: 74.20 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.11 date: 08/20/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.2/30.2 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.6 min: 11.3
    model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3346 high: 3888 min/max: 1400/2600 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1728 2: 1729
    3: 3885 4: 3886 5: 3885 6: 3887 7: 3882 8: 3888 bogomips: 41518
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2
    chip-ID: 04f2:b710 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.7x9.4") s-diag: 485mm (19.1")
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1600x900 hz: 60 dpi: 106 size: 382x215mm (15.0x8.5") diag: 438mm (17.3")
  OpenGL: renderer: RENOIR (renoir LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-92-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-92-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: rtl8821ce v: v5.5.2.1_35598.20191029 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-3:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:b00e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
    sub-v: f098 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 75b8
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 117.94 GiB (4.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 211210WD temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM007-1R8174 size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: EB01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 182.28 GiB used: 117.89 GiB (64.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 52 MiB (54.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo
    interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b710 class-ID: fe01
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-2:2 info: Huasheng USB2.0 HUB ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 214b:7250 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-3:3 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:b00e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-4:4 info: Kensington SlimBlade Trackball type: Mouse driver: kensington,usbhid
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 047d:2041 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: 0.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 53.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 3011 apt: 2959 flatpak: 28 snap: 24
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 346 Uptime: 6h 25m wakeups: 1 Memory: 30.69 GiB used: 7.03 GiB (22.9%) Init: systemd
  v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client
  inxi: 3.3.13

And in reply to the panel edit mode, yes I have tried that many times, even rebooted to see if it would work, but no good. The icons won't move to the left side again, or be resized. In fact, it seems all my panel settings just don't want to work since upgrading

[JerryF]

In Panel edit mode, see if there are any empty launchers on the left (beginning) that are not supposed to be there.

As for the size, you should be able to increase the row height of the panel to get larger icons when in panel edit (I think). I haven't used Cinnamon in years.

[tonywhelan]

IAs for the size, you should be able to increase the row height of the panel to get larger icons when in panel edit (I think). I haven't used Cinnamon in years.

Not quite. OP needs to right click on empty portion of panel, choose Panel Settings, adjust font &/or icon size for the left, centre or right portions of the panel

[Ysalys]

I've opened the panel settings, now many times, and still nothing. I did manage to get the icons to size up, (after the 4th time setting that) to match the panel size, but still not able to move the icons to the left side, or the center. They are stuck on the right side. I've been using Cinnamon for about 10 years now, so the obvious settings and troubleshooting is not my issue. This is something beyond that, and if there's anyone that can help, I would really appreciate it a LOT.
OR, someone who can find this bug, and correct it with a 21.3 update, it would be appreciated, I'm sure, by all who have the same laptop as I do.

[AndyMH]

I've been using Cinnamon for about 10 years now, so the obvious settings and troubleshooting is not my issue.

Don't have an answer but are you a luddite like me and were you using the "traditional" layout for the panel. Mint dropped this in LM21.3* but you may still have it if you upgraded from an earlier version (as I have). Might be part of the problem or I could be talking rubbish?

* no longer there in mint welcome > first steps.

[Ysalys]

Possibly part Luddite, lol but what you say, about 21.3 dropping the traditional panel settings sounds like this issue, but it doesn't make sense that they would still include the panel settings options if the placement choices don't work anymore. I'd be happy if I could just get the icons into the middle of the panel, but all the way to the right just doesn't work for me.
I guess all I can do is hope someone creates an update to fix this... Looks like no-one knows how to fix it, so it could be a bug as I suspect. New version, new bugs. Oh well... So sad...

[billyswong]

I've opened the panel settings, now many times, and still nothing. I did manage to get the icons to size up, (after the 4th time setting that) to match the panel size, but still not able to move the icons to the left side, or the center. They are stuck on the right side. I've been using Cinnamon for about 10 years now, so the obvious settings and troubleshooting is not my issue. This is something beyond that, and if there's anyone that can help, I would really appreciate it a LOT.
OR, someone who can find this bug, and correct it with a 21.3 update, it would be appreciated, I'm sure, by all who have the same laptop as I do.

Let's be more specific.
Q1: Can "panel edit mode" be toggled on or not?
Q2: If yes for Q1, do the subtle highlight regions appear?
Q3: If yes for Q2, when you drag the pinned icons, do they follow your mouse when you are dragging?
Q4: If yes for Q3, can you see mouse cursor change when your mouse reach the next highlight region?

You may also post terminal output of

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gsettings get org.cinnamon enabled-applets

Then maybe we give it a manual gsettings set in accordance to the current value or a gsettings reset for it.