Panel - Reset to Default

How to Reset the Panel to Default

Open a Terminal and type the following

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel (All panels will disappear)
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel 

In case that didn't do anything

You can do this if your panels/networking applet are really messed up. This is a "complete reset" of your panel settings. It reinstalls the panel applications and resets everything to default at the end.

BEFORE YOU RUN IT, make sure the networking applet will give you the option to change around wired connections. Open:

/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Now find:

[ifupdown]
managed = false

And change the second line to:

managed = true

Then run the following:

gksudo apt-get purge gnome-panel indicator-applet-session
gksudo apt-get install gnome-panel indicator-applet-session
gksudo restart network-manager
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel