Press alt+F2 and type gnome-panel if you are using gnome. If you are using XFCE try alt+F2 and type xfce4-panel there. Hope these might work for you. Deepak <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Binu Kavumkal <<a href="mailto:binukavumkal@ymail.com">binukavumkal@ymail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"> Guys I would suggest to post these kind of issues in ubuntu forums. I used to get quick solutions from this forum. Happy new year to all of you Cheers Binu --- On Tue, 23/12/08, 74yrs old <<a href="mailto:withblessings@gmail.com" target="_blank">withblessings@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: 74yrs old <<a href="mailto:withblessings@gmail.com" target="_blank">withblessings@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Taskbar Problem To: "Ubuntu India Local Community" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Date: Tuesday, 23 December, 2008, 9:26 AM<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <div>sri Manish, I agree with you I should have start with new topic thread. f you can show the last section of Xorg.0.log > kindly indicate how to copy the log and from where?  I also selected to fix the Xorg option which appear in recovery mode  of ubuntu 8.10 but failed.  What is the short-cut for Screenshot to enable me to forward the same to you. With Best Wishes, -sriranga(76yrs old) <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Manish <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:manishsinha.tech@gmail.com" target="_blank">manishsinha.tech@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">74yrs old wrote: > Hi Experts, > Menu taskbar at bottom and top disappeared  since two days.  I am > unable to click menu-  When I want to shut down  I have to press > ctrl+del+alt  which appears dialog containing  log off / switches but > _*shutdown *_disappeared > forcing to choose logoff instead of shutdown!!.  Even run recivery > mode doies not inmprove nor appeared (TWO WHITE STRIPS)AT TOP AND > BORTTOM.but only background screen.  i HAVE TO RRE-INTALL UBUTNTU-8.10 > FROM SCRATCH. > ANY SOLUTION IS FORTHCOMING?? > -sriranga(76ysold) It would have been better if you had started a new topic for this. I too sometimes face this problem of desktop getting freezed up. Right click doesn't work too. I googled and found out that the problem occours due to bonobo-activation-server , but don't know how I kill this process using killall bonobo-activation-server and then restart X using Ctrl+Alt+Bksp It wold be better if you can show the last section of Xorg.0.log Regards, Manish -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu..com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div></div><pre>-- <div class="Ih2E3d"> ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </div></pre></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table> <hr size="1"> Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/" target="_blank"> Invite them now.</a> -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div> -- print _me; Name error : '_me' not defined print $techblog; <a href="http://nextdoornerd.blogspot.com/">http://nextdoornerd.blogspot.com/</a> print $personal-blog; <a href="http://dharanpdeepak.blogspot.com/">http://dharanpdeepak.blogspot.com/</a>