On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:15:38PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > 2008/5/11 Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx>: > > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:56:38 +0100 > > >> > > Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> 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. > I finally managed it, I had to reboot. I moved .gconf, .gnome, .gnome2 and .gnome2_private to /tmp and then rebooted and now I have the default gnome-panel settings back at last. I suspect that some process that keeps these settings must persist even when you log out. It seems a bit of an omission though being able to delete panels with the user interface but not being able to bring them back. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
