Ubuntu – Accidentally removed default gnome panel applications

12.04gnomegnome-panel

I accidentally removed the default Gnome panel menu on the top right (containing clock, mail, volume and shutdown options). After, I tried to get the menu back by adding some apps but that did not solve the problem. I then stumbled upon a reset via the terminal, however, the menu remains missing and the apps I added are still there.

sudo dconf reset -f /org/gnome/gnome-panel/
killall gnome-panel

and

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

System: Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome classic.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Hold Alt + Right-click an empty area of your panel (in Gnome 3), and choose “Add to Panel…“, then scroll down till you find “Menu Bar”, then drag and drop it on desired place or click Add.

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Reset Gnome.

First of all, backup your settings.

mkdir ~/backup_gnome
mkdir ~/backup_gnome/.gnome/
cp -R ~/.gnome/* ~/backup_gnome/.gnome/

Do this with these folders: .gnome, .gnome2, .gconf, .gconfd, .metacity

Another way is to backup ALL of your settings:

mkdir ~/backup_settings
cp -R ~/.* ~/backup_settings/

After making backups, you can delete all gnome settings:

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

WARNING: If you remove all these folders, you essentially remove all the settings.

After resetting gnome, Logout and Login again (or restart your computer). You panels should be restored, now you can edit them again.

I hope this helped you, but try all the answers before mine, because resetting gnome is like reinstalling gnome.

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Use dconf load, not dconf reload. Try dconf help to see the available commands. dconf dump is the inverse of dconf load.

So in this regard, if you backed up and modified your dconf settings with:

dconf dump / > settings.txt

You can modify them on file using any text editor, and then populate them into ~/.config/dconf/user by:

dconf load / < settingsModified.txt

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