On Ubuntu 12.04 I use openbox with a single "gnome-panel" started. But after trying to configure my two screen in Xinerama mode I got additional rows of panels each time X restarted.
And despite I completely reverted to my one-screen-X-config
- the
gnome-panel
displayed has 4 rows (4 at top sreen, 4 at bottom) - only the outermost row has content, the other 3 are empty
- there is only one gnome-panel process running
- some widgets appear 4 times, too, although they run only once
- when I switch away from openbox using unity I am back to 1 row temporarily
What went wrong here? How do I undo that? Things that did not help:
rm -Rf .gnome2 .gconf/ .compiz-1/
pkill panel
, and restarting it
Best Answer
Run the following, apparently gnome3 stores configuration in binary form (I haven't read up on dconf enough to know where or why).
Run:
dconf-editor
to edit the config.Go to:
org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout
(it's pretty intuitive)The defaults seem to be:
I had to figure this out after I had some weird issue with gnome while trying to get my 2 monitors to work. Everything (menus, rows, clock, etc.) seemed to duplicate on the panel after every attempt to restart the X server. I should have took a screenshot but this is essentially what I had before I fixed it:
As you can see, there's 3 of everything.