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Hi All, I was updating my ubuntu 10.04 with some security patches. Everything worked fine but in between I messed up with my ubuntu top panel, and some of the icons went missing. I tried adding them using “add to panel” option, but I did not find it usable. As I don’t remember the default sequence of icons. Even after adding all of them it was looking weird.

So I started looking out for options which can reset my both panels (top & bottom). This what I found, hopefully some of you may find it useful.

NOTE: It worked for me on ubuntu10.04, I personally have not tested it on any other distro. Though It should work as expected.

Following commands would do the trick.

gconftool-2 --shutdown

(Note: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

EDIT – My friend has suggested a better method instead of shutting down gconfd. Instead use the following command (thanks !)

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel

(Remember: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

Then enter the next command:

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

And enter one more command:

pkill gnome-panel

That’s it! All the best. Continue reading →