How to restore default panel settings on ubuntu 10.04?
 

Hello,

Unfortunatly I seem to have accidentally deleted the top panel from Ubuntu 10.04. How can I restore the default panels? I am panicking right now :eek:


UPDATE: I have managed to manually put everything back in it's place, except the battery indicator. What would this be called?

The panel settings are stored in the .gconf/apps/panel folder in your home directory. Of course beginning with the "." it's a hidden file, you will have to enable viewing hidden folders to work with it in nautilus.

As far as restoring the default without a backup, you might could try booting a live cd and copying the folder above mentioned directory over to your machine. That should set your desktop back to the default.

Moving forward, I would suggest making a backup of that folder or adding it to your existing backup strategy... (you do have a backup in place don't you?) ;)

# Update
The applet you are looking for is called the indicator applet

HTH
Dave

From what I see, the indicator applet is the volume and Evolution Mail indicators. Strangely no battery.

I just right clicked about on my Battery Icon on Gnome Top Taskbar and got

http://launchpad.net/indicator-applet

Go to:

System/Preferences/Power Management

Navigate to the general tab
Choose whatever level of notification you want to see under "Notification Area"

HTH
Dave

Thank you so much Dave! It is working perfectly now.

Happy Holidays :hattip:

Glad to see you get it working.

Dave