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Now an Alternate Method for restoring default gnome desktop
Open a Terminal and type the following
$ gconftool –recursive-unset /apps/panel (All panels will disappear)
$ rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
$ pkill gnome-panel
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Another Method for restore the default gnome-desktop-panels in Ubuntu Linux
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