[xubuntu-users] screwed up panels

[TOM TOM]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:27 AM, bob <bob.currie at bulkley.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:03:56 +0300
> TOM TOM <thomasthoma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:28 PM, bob <bob.currie at bulkley.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.  Sorry for such an elementary question.  I've screwed up trying to
> set
> > > up panels in my wife's login in 12.04-what files do I delete to start
> over?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >               b
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> > Hi. Try .config/xfce4/panel
>
> Thanks Tom.  I tried it and what it did wasn't actually what I was looking
> for.
>
> It still left the panels as I'd left them (i.e. screwed up) except that
> some launchers were now missing.
>
> What I'm really aiming for is this.  I'd deleted the top panel (she
> doesn't like to have a top panel) and set up the bottom panel for her.
>  However, she likes the bottom panel to show what programs are open, as she
> was used to in Windows.  The bottom panel can have lots of room for that as
> she doesn't use panel launchers.
>
> When I put a top panel back now, it doesn't do that-it's just blank
> waiting to be filled in.  I was hoping to get back to the default panels
> and start from there.  I'd then move the top panel to the bottom and
> customize it for her.
>
> Of course, I could just copy all her documents, delete her as a user and
> delete her home directory completely and start over, but was hoping for an
> easier way to do it.
>
> Thanks again for anything you can do.
>
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sorry about that, try deleting the folder .config/xfce4, logout and log
back in.
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