Panel - Reset to Default
How to Reset the Panel to Default (for the end user)
Most of our end users have a very hard time with the command line. On the phone the following would be the easiest to explain:
Navigate to the user's home folder
go to Places -> Home Folder
Show hidden files
go to View -> show hidden files
Navigate to the apps folder
go to .gconf -> apps
Find and delete the panel folder
Log out and back in again, or restart the computer
On reboot or log out and in the panels will be restored to the base default (all original plugins in original positions)
How to Reset the Panel to Default
Open a Terminal and type the following
gconftool-2 --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
And make sure nm-applet will run on login. Make sure this command has an entry in the list of startup programs:
nm-applet --sm-disable (System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications)
Then run the following: (note that a "gk" preceeding sudo was removed as it was discovered to inhibit the process. Rhean 18:34, 13 October 2011 (UTC))
sudo apt-get purge gnome-panel indicator-applet-session network-manager-gnome sudo apt-get install gnome-panel indicator-applet-session network-manager-gnome sudo restart network-manager gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel pkill gnome-panel
To get network manager to show up as a separate applet (useful in restoring it to the panel under some versions of ubuntu), do:
sudo apt-get install indicator-session indicator-applet-session