On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 18:45 -0400, jludwig wrote: > On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:00 pm, Richard E Miles wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:46:34 +0300 > > > > Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 2005 7:19 AM, Sam Williams <sam@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I just deleted the taskbar on top of my screen in gnome. Can someone > > > > tell me how to get it back. The default one would be fine. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Sam > > > > > > Yeah, I did this a few weeks ago. I couldn't get it back for the life > > > of me. This advice from Thomas Cameron helped: > > > > > > quote > > > > > > The "chainsaw" method is to boot the machine to runlevel 3 (i.e. No GNOME > > > stuff running), and in your home directory run the commands: > > > > > > mkdir backup > > > mv .g* backup > > > > > > This will move all your GNOME settings (essentially deleting them) and > > > they will be reset to defaults next time you start X. > > > > > > /quote > > > > > > Good luck. > > > > > > Dotan Cohen > > > > Another method to add a panel is to right click on the bottom panel and > > choose add panel. > > > > -- > > Richard E Miles > > Federal Way WA. USA > > registered linux user 46097 > > A better way since you will not loose personel preferances S.A. backrounds and > links. > > -- > John H Ludwig > Thanks Dotan, Richard and John. The move to bkup directory didn't work--maybe because I restarted before trying that. Creating new panel by right-clicking lower panel let me re-create new panel. For future, though, anyone know location and filename containing default panels?, user panel? I created a new user and it came with top panel. I looked but couldn't figure out how where the info for that is stored. Thanks, Sam
