[PLUG-TALK] I broke it.

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Thu Aug 4 19:13:44 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:49:12AM -0700, Gregory Salter wrote:
>    I think I broke my laptop. I somehow managed to delete or
> turn off the main bar across the top of the display screen
> on my Linux Laptop.

> This is using Ubuntu Lynx, and I have managed to get some
> of the functionality back on the lower bar, but the top bar
> is completly gone. is there any way to get it back?

You probably just slightly bent something, this is eminently
fixable, and there are probably easier ways than the below.

I sometimes temporarily lose the "gnome panel" on my desktop.
Restarting the desktop with "control-alt-backspace" sometimes
helps.  If I don't want to lose my session, sometimes just
executing "gnome-panel" from the command line helps.  Every
once in a while, I not only lose the panel, but the configuration
files that produce it.  There is probably a much cleaner way
to fix this problem, but in my ignorance I just wipe all the
".gnome"-like directories and restore from last night's backups.  

I hope that last egregious kludge engenders some horrified 
correction postings from list members who know better. 
Googling for "Gnome Panel" will teach you much.

I am moving this to the main PLUG list, because this kind of
Linux question is what the main list is for, while PLUG-TALK
is for arguments about patents, home insulation, and the
evilness of Windows. ( "No", "Yes", and "Ignorance is its
own punishment", respectively).

Keith

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