Missing Panels in Gnome

codeviking · 07-29-2003, 05:09 PM

For some screwy reason my panels are missing. I normally have 4 them and suddenly I booted up and they were all gone. The menu on the bottom that is normally there is gone too. When I log in Gnome starts up and displays a bunch of little symbols for a couple of seconds as everything is set up - however it's not showing the little panel symbol to show that the panels are started up too. Anybody have any idea what's going on? I've been running Gnome for weeks on end with no problems. I'm using RedHat 7.2 in case that matters.

Mega Man X · 07-29-2003, 05:36 PM

Hi codeviking!!!

That's a very common problem, because Nautilus, the program which draws icons and menus in Gnome, is buggy as hell.
Try deleting (or ratter moving/renaming) the file ./gnome in you /home/user.
Doing so, Nautilus will "recreate" a new desktop for you as if it was the first time when you've run Gnome.

Good luck!

codeviking · 07-29-2003, 06:08 PM

Hey man, thanks for the reply. I tried doing what you said, but all that happened was that my wallpaper disappeared. Still no panels.

codeviking · 07-29-2003, 08:36 PM

*bump*

Mega Man X · 07-29-2003, 08:45 PM

Did you fix it? Congratz. How?

It's cool if you say how you did it because somebody else can face the same problem

codeviking · 07-29-2003, 08:48 PM

No, that's what I said - I didn't fix it.

Mega Man X · 07-29-2003, 08:50 PM

hehe

I've thought you did

. Well, I wish you good luck

fancypiper · 07-29-2003, 08:55 PM

Did you re-launch nautilus?

Try different clicks on the desktop until you find it in the menu or launch an x terminal and actually run nautilus. Then it will re-create the missing stuff.

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codeviking · 07-30-2003, 08:07 PM

It's funny how sometimes the answer is so simple that you never see it. I decided to type "panel" in a shell launched from the desktop. Bingo. My panel came back. Thanks for the suggestions guys

Mega Man X · 07-30-2003, 08:50 PM

hey

That was pretty new for me too...there's always one more command at the terminal in Linux

lol