Resetting the Gnome panel
May 1st, 2009. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Had a heck of a time fighting with xorg.conf on Ubuntu 9.04 this week. When I finally got the resolution set correctly, the Gnome panels were messed up. The trash icon was in the middle of the bottom panel and the user/power section was in the middle of the top panel. After Googling for the answer, I came across this post that explained how to reset the Gnome panel. Here are the basic steps:
- Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a console
- Log in from the console
- Type “rm -rf .gnome”
- Type “rm -rf .gconf”
I restarted after this and my panels were indeed reset when I logged in (including the theme, fonts, etc), and the panels were behaving normally again.