[xubuntu-users] screwed up panels [solved]

Joshua O'Leary joshua.oleary at btinternet.com
Fri Jun 29 16:52:58 UTC 2012


On 28/06/12 23:47, bob wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:06:32 +0300
> TOM TOM <thomasthoma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>                                           b
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>> sorry about that, try deleting the folder .config/xfce4, logout and log
>> back in.
> Perfect, thanks.
>
>                  b
>
sorry didn't see it was solved





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