brahma
Thanks very much for this. Cured the panel problems, now the panel remembers settings from boot to boot. However I still am not able to launch the application launcher via touching the screen edge that I have configured to launch the launcher. No matter where I configure the app launcher to be launched “from” it will not launch. However anything else I configure to launch from System Settings/Windows Behavior/ Screen edges…launches without problem–just not the activity launcher. I am at somewhat of a loss on this because it worked before… one might ask before what but it worked after the last stable update and it works on the test account I set up ----So I am at somewhat of a loss.
At this point other than configuring a new account i am not syure what solution there might be. This is a reinstall --reinstalled fresh Manjaro Stable to an M2 drive and moved /home over a week ago- then went through the last Stable update without problem-- of a production system that was some 4 years old so there is a lot to do in configging a new account.
Many thanks again for your kind help.