restore top end bar

Asked by Dany R

im new to linux ubuntu 10.10, i accidently removed my top end bar and i cant figure out how to bring it back!

Help me!
Dany

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#1

How to restore gnome panels and toolbars disappered on Ubuntu

A) When you see the clean desktop without toolbar:
- press alt-f2 a little window will come in fron of you
- ins this window field type:

gnome-terminal

Then press enter a terminal window will come in front of you:

type (a single row a time then press enter) :

gconftool –-recursive-unset /apps/panel;
rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/panel;
pkill gnome-panel

B) if you cannot get access to terminal using method A then:
- press ctrl + alt + F2 you will get a pseudo terminal black screen in front of you
- Make login with your user and password (when you type the password you will not see any screen chars, so type in then press enter)
- then when you get access, type (a single row a time then press enter) :

gconftool –-recursive-unset /apps/panel;
rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/panel;
pkill gnome-panel

Then press ctrl + alt + F7 to return to your desktop

Hope this helps

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François Tissandier (baloo) said :
#2

You mean the top panel on the desktop? You can right click on the bottom panel and create a new one, but you will need to add all the applets one by one. If you didn't customize the bottom panel that much, I would advise you to simply reset your panels to the default configuration.

To do so, open a terminal (in Applications > Accessories)
Then type:
gconftool-2 – -shutdown
Press enter

Then the same for those 3 commands :

gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

You will maybe have to close/reopen your session to make the panels appear. But it should restore everything to default.

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Dany R (rocheleau-dany) said :
#3

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.

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Lawrence Oduro-Sarpong (los-gmx) said :
#4

I thank all of you for your contributions. I just managed to solve this problem.