[ubuntu-za] Xubuntu - lost panel

[Bill Cairns]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:
>
>> look at the hidden files in the user folders, try to find the folder where
>> the information for the panels are stored, now try and copy what's in the
>> new users folders, or alternatively (on own risk etc.) you can see what
>> happens when you remove that folders, rather rename don't delete and see
>> what happens, Ubuntu should create it again from a template...please this is
>> how I would go about this it is not necessary the correct way.
>
>
> I have tried that but couldn't see anything that looked like it had
> anything to do with panels - have you any idea what the file might be
> called?
>

I have tried this on Ubuntu (10.04) and the only file in the Home
folder that seems to change when I muck around with panels is .gconfd.
As it has useful stuff in it like:

CLIENTADD "IOR: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"
CLIENTADD "IOR: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"
CLIENTADD

I am not much advanced!

But I will have a look at the Xfce stuff soon.

Thanks,
  Bill