[ubuntu-in] Suggestion

[Abhinav Modi]

Hi Narendra,

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Narendra Sisodiya
<narendra at narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:
> #1 ..   if "Network manager" is not running, It should automatically start.
> One of my friends has installed Linux on his system and it took me 30 minute
> on phone to restart his network mangaer which got shutdowned automatically.
> We must declare some mininum essential service which automatically restart.
>

You could write a crontab entry for this, to poll every 5minutes or so.

> #2  Reset Desktop.
> Desktop configuration are stored in .gnome2 and other folder. It will be
> great if someone create a right click scripts [not more then a day job]
> which basically delete all new configuration and panel and reset of
> original.
> My friend has just installed ubuntu and he lost his top and bottom panels.
> someone deleted. He is clue-less. It took me 25 minute to recreate his old
> setting.
>

For something similar to #2, I used the following steps :

1.  When you have a "sane" panel config, dump it to a file initially

gconftool-2 --dump /apps/panel > ~/sane.gnome_panel

2. When you want to reset to this entry, use the following as a script :

#!/bin/sh

killall --regexp gnome-panel
gconftool-2 --load "/home/foo/sane.gnome_panel
gnome-panel

The above will replace the gconf data with the earlier data. You can
also use this for adding/deleting panels, for example when moving from
single to multiple monitors.

I don't know if there is a way to do it without restarting gnome-panel.

Regards
Abhinav

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