How to get default top-panel and bottom-panels back?

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

The easy way to get a panel, assuming that you still have one left, is 
to right click in the existing panel and choose "add panel." then you 
can populate it as you wish. Shot myself in that foot yesterday. 
However, I confess that I have found no clean way to return to the 
default settings.
> 
> 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.
> 


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