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dishawjp:
Hi All,

My Gnome panel (like the Windows taskbar) has flaked out on me.  I still have some of the icons to the left of the panel (browser, terminals, toolbox, help & etc.) but the area to the right is completely blank.  I used to have icons for "new windows" and some other little things.  They seem to be lost.  I could reinstall I suppose, but is there an easier way to restore everything?

Jim

voidmain:
I hope I am not misunderstanding your question but if you are using Gnome 1.x your panel ICONS are stored in under the ~/.gnome/panel.d directory. In Gnome 2.x they are stored in under ~/.gnome2/panel2.d.

If the system installation of Gnome is fine and the problem appears to just be an issue a messed up user configuration (i.e. if you log in as a different user and the panel looks right) then you can restore  you user to a default Gnome configuration by renaming or deleting the ~/.gnome and/or ~/.gnome2 directories and logging out and back in. It should recreate a default Gnome desktop configuration for your user just as if it was the first time you logged in.  

But you may not want to lose all of your Gnome personalizations so you might want to try and fix what's missing in that panel.d directory structure.

Bazoukas:
Do you mean reinstall Gnome or Linux? If so, you dont need to do that.

 Here is what I do.

 I had one time Gnome do that to me when I had 2000 mp3s view as music. It only happens to me when i choose view as music.
 I loged in as root. I copied ALL the files that I made as a regular user to my root name.  Deleted the name in which Gnome gave me trouble and created it again. Transfered  all the files from root to my user account and that was it.


 Of course there might be another way to get your Gnome back working as it was, but am not aware of it yet.

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by DOSman:
Hi All,

My Gnome panel (like the Windows taskbar) has flaked out on me.  I still have some of the icons to the left of the panel (browser, terminals, toolbox, help & etc.) but the area to the right is completely blank.  I used to have icons for "new windows" and some other little things.  They seem to be lost.  I could reinstall I suppose, but is there an easier way to restore everything?

Jim
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Jim,
Take an extra tuck in your truss, spit on your palms and try reconfiguring X-window!  Sounds to me like something happened that X didn't like (it's hard to say what, X is a touchy bastard.)  I can't help with specifics, me being a Debian user, but there is a lot of documentation on the Redhat website, they may have the information you need; if not, they may be able to point you in the right direction.
BTW: this is a rite of passage for almost every new Linux user; we ALL have an X-window crisis at one time or another!

dishawjp:
Thanks for the replies.  Void Main, I did delete the ~.gnome directory and got my clock, the "new window thing" and now running programs are back on my panel.  What this hosed was some of the icons on my desktop.  I'm not much of an "icon man" anyway, so I just deleted some of them by deleting the files in the .gnome-desktop directory.  The fd0 icon though now appears as a folder rather than the picture of a floppy disk that it formerly was.

Again, this isn't serious since it seems to work ok and when I use my floppy drive I generally mount it through the command line anyway, but I thoght that it looked nice.  Also, even though the CDROM drive works perfectly, I used to get an icon on the desktop when the CD was running.  I also thought that that looked kind of nice even though I've never used it.  

I did try logging on as a different user and the original default icons were all still there.  Are there some files that I can copy from the other user's home directory to my directory to restore these two desktop icons?  The only otehr icon that I'd like to restore is the redhat.com icon.  Again only for looks, I just kind of liked to see it sitting on the desktop. I've never used it to access their site.

If these things are problems, I can live without them.  I do use the panel and the command line for just about everything anyway anyway.

thanks again for the help, the major problem is corrected, but if possible, I wold like to fix the minor ones.

Bazoukas, I'd need to know which files to copy.  Creedon, where would I begin recongfiguring Xwindows?

Jim

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