How To Restore The Original Panel And Menu Bar in Ubuntu

Posted on June 23, 2008 by ma65p2004

New Solution

Note: The old solution no longer worked for me, I found a new solution and posted it here.

Open Terminal: Ctrl+Shift+T

Execute these three commands:

gconftool-2 --shutdown
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

The panels should reappear without logging out.

Old Solution

Note: This no longer works for me, but I leave it here for those who would like to try. After all, this solution saved me once, and it once worked just fine.

Well, I deleted my top panel by accident today. When I create a new one, some of the original items such as wire network connection, PMC volume control, notification area, date and time… are not there any more. Some of them are no where to be found in the items listed for adding new items onto panels. Anyhow, a quick Google search let me to the solution, found here and quoted below.

Open Terminal: Ctrl+Shift+T

Execute these three commands:

gnome-session-remove gnome-panel
gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /apps/panel
gnome-panel &

Then logout and log back in, or restart you X server with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE , everything should be fine.

Note: During this process, all panels, including the top and bottom, will be deleted and restore to the default settings. So, if you delete the bottom panel, this also restores it.

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7 Responses to “How To Restore The Original Panel And Menu Bar in Ubuntu”

  1. Cambiar el menu de Ubuntu por un boton « Ubuntu Life, on June 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm Said:

    [...] recargar la informacion del panel. Y si acaso lo que queremos es volver a la situacion original del panel. Los comandos [...]

  2. Lee, on July 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am Said:

    Thats great. But what are the keyboard shortcuts to start a terminal, i cant find those anywhere.

  3. ma65p2004, on July 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm Said:

    Lee,

    I think the Ctrl+Shift+T is the default keyboard shortcut to open your terminal.

    You can also add terminal on your panel as a quick shortcut like in windows.

  4. Lee, on July 29th, 2008 at 5:45 am Said:

    Ok, thanks. Next issue.
    I type each command, hitting enter after each command. After the last command I get a blinking, black cursur with no confirmation….I log out and in and still same problem…

  5. ma65p2004, on July 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm Said:

    Lee,

    Thanks for coming back.

    I found another solution.

    In terminal, enter these three commands:

    gconftool-2 --shutdown
    rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
    pkill gnome-panel

    I hope this helps.

  6. j0sh818, on August 7th, 2008 at 3:44 am Said:

    hi there! thanks for this info. really helped. but i got one problem though. my network monitor applet didn’t appear in the panel.

    any ideas? thanks again.

  7. ma65p2004, on August 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm Said:

    j0sh818,

    I never have the same problem before. I will search for the solution soon. However, at the mean time, what you can do is put a network monitor on your panel:

    Right-click on the panel => Select “Add to panel…” => select “Network Monitor”

    This might help you for now.

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