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My top panel has disappeared.

Asked by Mike Ayoob

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and this morning my top panel randomly disappeared. I've tried restarting, and it's still gone. I would love to know how to fix this. There was another fix for xUbuntu on this forum that involved using alt+F2, which does nothing for me. If anyone could help that would be awesome. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4384.

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Johannes Pilkahn (j-pilkahn) said : 		#1

Press Alt+F2 and run

gnome-terminal

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Mike Ayoob (mytoesaregettingpruny) said : 		#2

I should have been more clear. Typing Alt+F2 does not open the Run Application window, for some reason. It doesn't do anything. I need some other way to open the terminal to use the fixes that have been suggested so far. If anyone knows a way to do this that would be awesome.

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#3

Do you still have the bottom toolbar?

If so, try right-clicking that and choose "New Panel"

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Mike Ayoob (mytoesaregettingpruny) said : 		#4

There is no bottom panel on my desktop. I have no panels. The panels are absent.

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Best Johannes Pilkahn (j-pilkahn) said : 		#5

Do you have any launcher's on the desktop?

Right-click on one, select "Properties" and enter either "gnome-panel" or "gnome-terminal" in the "command" entry box.

Not very conventional, but should do the trick.

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Mike Ayoob (mytoesaregettingpruny) said : 		#6

That did allow me to open the terminal, but can someone quickly tell me what to enter to reinstall gnome-panel? Or delete it. I'm not familiar with the general commands for deleting and reinstalling in terminal. Thanks for all the help so far!

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AFarris01 (afarris01) said : 		#7

i believe it would be:
sudo apt-get reinstall ubuntu-desktop

that might be it, but im not sure...somebody back me up?

andrew

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AFarris01 (afarris01) said : 		#8

this brings up an interesting point...why can't you right click on the Desktop and have a 'create new panel' option? i think im going to post that on Brainstorm, and see if anybody else likes it...

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Mike Ayoob (mytoesaregettingpruny) said : 		#9

I got it fixed. The commands I used were:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-panel
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
gnome-panel

and viola! My panels are back. Thanks for all the help everybody. You rule.

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Mike Ayoob (mytoesaregettingpruny) said : 		#10

Thanks Johannes Pilkahn, that solved my question.

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The Bobby (bmorenoy) said : 		#11

i do not have a launcher on my desk top and i i dont know how to create one. what should i do?

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rahul_bhise (rahulbzone-forum) said : 		#12

so can you
Press Alt+F2 and run

gnome-terminal