gnome-panel crashing on hoary

[John Nilsson]

On tor, 2005-07-28 at 20:59 +0200, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
> ubuntu 5.04
> gnome 2.10.0
> 
> hello
> 
> 
> i tried to change my font preferences
>   , system->preferences->font
> 
> after i did
>   gnome crashed
>   gnome-panel crashed
> and i lost control over the lower panel
>   no more possibility of adding to the panel with gnome-panel crashing
> 
> i lost reveal-desktop
> and the presence of the icons of open windows on the lower panel
>   , which is kind of a nuisance

Err, that shouldn't happen... Have you filed a bug?


> 
> is there a way of returning to the default settings of gnome-panel ?
>   , maybe some conf*.xml files got messed up ?

I'm not shure about this, but I guess you could try to 'rm
-rf .gconf/apps/panel' (make a backup in case I'm wrong).

> 
> how can i add these lost functionalities back ?
> how can i add the trash icon
>                the reveal desktop
>                the workspace switcher     to the upper panel ?
Right click and select "Add to Panel..." is the intended way...


> 
> thanks for your time
> jmcs3
>