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"Allow panel to move" option missing

Asked by gareth

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy.

In Panel Properties I see "some of these properties are locked down", preventing me from changing the location of the panel.
This is the main panel, which I moved to the top a which I moved to the top a while ago. Sometime since the 'locked down' message has appeared.

I've found a few forum comments that say to right click on the panel and select "allow this panel to be moved", but this option is missing.
There is only "Add to Panel", "Properties", "Delete this panel" (grayed out), "New Panel", "Help" and "About Panels".

Can someone help me figure this out?

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Carlos Joel Delgado Pizarro (c0x6a) said : 		#1

What do you want to do?
Want to move the panel to a different place on your screen? To bottom, for example?
If this is what yo want, just right-click on the panel and choose "Properties" and in the "General" tab look for the "Orientation" mode and chose the one you want (Top, Bottom, Left, Right) and the whole panel will be moved there.
When you right-click the panel you just get the options you said, no more, no less ("Add to Panel", "Properties", "Delete this panel", "New Panel", "Help" and "About Panels")

BTW. You can try running gconf-editor (press Alt+F2 to pop-up the run command window) and once on gconf-editor go to /apps/panel/global and see if the key "locked-down" is unchecked.

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gareth (garethbaxter) said : 		#2

Thanks for replying.

Yes I want to change orientation of the panel. As I said, it can't be done because panel is locked down.

In gconf,
/apps/panel/global/ locked-down is already unchecked.

But I found that unchecking
/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen_0/disable_movement

has solved the problem.