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    Ubuntu Panel Missing!

    Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Rajeshwaran S P

    When I logged into the machine today, I was shocked to see no panel appearing on the ubuntu desktop. I thought the computer has hung. But when I right clicked the desktop, I got the regular pop-up menu and was able to change desktop wallpapers.

    Here is what I did to get the panel back. With the desktop without the panel and not remembering any of the shortcuts, it was quiet difficult.

    First, I created a launcher for Terminal. Right Click on any area on the desktop and then choose ‘Create Launcher’. Choose any name and then in the command text box, type in

    terminal

    This should create a terminal launcher. That done, double click to open a terminal session. Enter the following command,

    killall gnome-panel

    Then right click on the desktop to create another launcher. This time in the command text box, type in

    gnome-panel

    This creates a gnome-panel launcher. Double click and viola! you have the Panel.

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    3 Responses to “Ubuntu Panel Missing!”

    1. ubuntu user said :

      Many thanks!!!! Have been searching in vain for method to get my top menu back after losing both top and bottom menus. Ctl-Alt_F2 got me to a terminal but for some reason the googled similar commands to yours wouldn’t work from there. Your system worked beautifully. Only had to add the “shutdown” button to the menu to get back to exactly what my modified menu bar was before (lost the menu bar after deleting the chat/broadcast/ubuntu1 options in 10.0.4 lucid,which seemed to be tied into the shutdown button). Big smiles here!!

    2. Rajeshwaran S P said :

      Great to hear that it helped!

    3. Thufir said :

      Thanks.

      Geez, I found people re-installing, suggestions to edit config files and reboot and other solutions out of whack with the problem!

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