fred_the_fish Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 I'm not really sure where to post this... anyway, I have a problem with Gnome - I deccided to be clever and move my ticker and clock apps etc to some new panels - so I have one panel with the menu icons, and some quick-start programs, a middle panel with the desktop switcher, and app-picker, and the third panel contains clock, weather, notification box and volume controller. This all worked fine until I restarted X, and tried to log-in.. Now, I keep getting the error "Panel is already in existence" or something similar. I press "OK" and it lets me into Gnome, with the desktop and desktop icons, but NONE of panels exist. I know its not actually a broken problem within Gnome, cause root can login without any problems. How do I fix this without having to delete my gnome prefences files and completly restarting the customisation of my Gnome from scratch? (this is Gnome 2.6). [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 Well the easy way would be to wipe your prefs. However, try: rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel This will wipe your panel config. You need to relogin for this to take effect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted October 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 Blast... just what I didn't want to do... ahwell... in the future, do I have to make sure I don't have three panels all running on the bottom? or have I just been unlucky? or should I get around to upgrading to 2.8 instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 no, you should be able to have as panels everywhere. Try again and if it gets borked again, wait for and update or go find newer gnome-panel../applet* rpms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted October 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 Bizare - I've restarted my machine having returned from work... an low it all works properly???? Well I ain't going to complain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 Maybe some things didn't stop running correctly. The way to tell is to log out to the console, do a ps ux as your user, and kill off anything that you see running that shouldn't be (basically, anything that you see listed other than bash could be killed). Then log in again, and it should be fine. This happened to me last night, where Nautilus wasn't drawing a desktop on my left monitor, just the taskbar and then that thatched b&w pattern. Try it next time something messes up on you, it should work and maintain your uptime. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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