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Felecha
02-18-2001, 02:30 PM
Oh no! I'm a Linux newbie, taking a networking couse at school, got Red Hat 6.2 in lab so I installed it at home, too. Poking around, finding this and that to try out. Opened the Global Panel Properties, Miscellaneous, there's an option to adjust how much of the top edge of the Gnome Panel shows on the desktop. The default has just a bit showing, and I figured, why not set it down to zero? My Windows Taskbar doesn't show, after all. Well, at zero, it makes it so the mouse arrow doesn't pop the panel up. I can't get at anything on the panel. And that means I don't have the Main Menu, either, which is the only way I know to get the Panmel Properties back. I do know that lots of things like LinuxConf and gmenu have command-line commands that bring them up. Anyone know the command for the Panel Properties.
Like locking your keys in your car!
Thanks
Felecha
If all else fails you can switch to another console (ctrl alt f2) and go into the home directory of that user and delete the .gnome file and it will be restored. But you will also lose all changes you made. It it will be like using gnome for the first time again.
HTH
Mis
fancypiper
02-20-2001, 08:42 PM
You will probably want to upgrade gnome as the version you (probably) installed is buggy and would lose the panel.
You can upgrade easily (but is a fairly long download at 33.6).
Connect to the internet and in a terminal, su root and then command:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
Follow the directions from there.
You probably want to visit their site as well.
http://www.helixcode.com
bdg1983
02-20-2001, 11:05 PM
umm....youre wrong
i had the same thing with redhat 6.2 a long time ago.
just do as the other guy said and delete all the ~/.gnome* directories.
fancypiper
02-21-2001, 12:56 AM
:confused: I could be wrong, but my RH6.2 disk came with gnome-core-1.0.55 and the gnome panel crashed regurarly. I had the panel to lose it's anchor and vanish with my version.
I upgraded to gnome-core-1.2.4 and the only crash I have had so far is with pan. :cool:
bdg1983
02-21-2001, 08:42 AM
ohh ok
lol...i guess he should try a few things
:)
Molecule Man
02-21-2001, 12:54 PM
usually if you open up some sort of xterm and type gnome-panel it will bring it back after a crash. Upgrading gnome wouldn't be a bad thing though.