Help...I have no panels

[Albert Wagner]

On 01/20/2011 03:29 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Albert Wagner<albertwagner at cox.net>  wrote:
>> there is no process named xorg
> I believe the one you want is running X, aka /usr/bin/X, or the
> gdm-binary (GNOME Display Manager).
>
Thank you.
>> I am running on 10.10.  Does that make a difference?
> Shouldn't.
>
>> Note that in my reply above, marked "resolved", I did manage to get my
>> panels back.  Now I just discovered that all of the items in the Places menu
>> on the top panel display a terminal now, rather than the appropriate folder
>> (with the exception of Computer).
> I don't use the trinity (Applications-Places-System) applet, I prefer
> the main menu by itself - less space in the panel and one button
> instead of three.  Guess I'm monobuttonistic....
How do you do that?

I figured out what happened to my Places menu.  While hacking my way out 
of lost panels, I created an empty folder and then opened it with a 
gnome-terminal.  Unnoticed by me there was a checkbox that forced ALL 
folders to be opened by gnome-terminal.