How to get default top-panel and bottom-panels back?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Sun May 11 20:23:20 UTC 2008
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:02:26PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 20:15 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > > 2008/5/11 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> > > > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > > >> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:20:56AM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> > > >> > On Sat, 10 May 2008 17:03:41 -0600
> > > >> > Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:56:38 +0100
> > > >> > > Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > > Is there any way to restore the default gnome-panel settings for the
> > > >> > > > top_panel and bottom_panel?
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Without having actually tried it, I think you will get what you want if you
> > > >> > > delete everything from ~/.gnome2, then log in.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Might be safer to move the contents of ~/.gnome2 somewhere else so that
> > > >> > you can restore it if things break badly.
> > > >> >
> > > >> Yes, definitely! Thanks for the ideas.
> > > >>
> > > > Moving ~/.gnome2 to ~/.gnome2.old has had absolutely no effect at all
> > > > on my gnome-panel(s). :-( I've restarted and the new .gnome2 has
> > > > appeared and it's almost empty but I still have only one panel on my
> > > > desktop and it's nothing like the default one.
> > >
> > > You probably need to do the same thing with .gnome2_private .gnome
> > > .gconf as well.
> > >
> > I've moved all of those as well, still nothing happens.
> >
> > What I can't fathom out is what actually enables and disable panels in
> > gnome-panel, at the moment I have just one panel which is one I added
> > called panel_0. If I go into the gnome configuration editor I can see
> > configurations for Top Panel, Bottom Panel and Panel 0 but I can see
> > nothing that enables or disables them. I can change the settings of
> > Panel 0 quite happily and that affects what's displayed but I'd rather
> > get Top Panel and Bottom Panel back and start again.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Green
> >
> Look in Configuration Manager->default_setup->toplevels
> There I find a bottom panel and top level panel that allows you to
> control them.
>
Yes, but it doesn't have anything that turns them on and off. If Top
Panel isn't visible then nothing that I can find in the Configuration
Editor that will make it visible again.
--
Chris Green
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