Gnome-panel : how to restore default state ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Hi,

I am having a little problem with Dapper flight-2, where it seems the
gnome-panel keeps Gnome from starting. I tried killing it, no joy. I
tried removing gnome-panel and re-installing it, still no joy.
Then I created a new/fresh user, and Gnome started fine. 
So I guess the problem is to do with my existing user directory.
So I would like to try resetting everything related to gnome-panel in my
user directory, without touching anything else of course.

As far as I can see, everything is stored in:

.gconf
.gconfd
.gnome
.gnome_private
.gnome2
.gnome2_private

Does anyone know what files need to be reset (I could copy them from the
"fresh" user I just created) to get a 100% "virgin" gnome-panel so to
speak ?
hopefully this will allow it to start properly and allow Gnome to start
as it should...



Regards,


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Vince