Fedora: Accidentally deleted Gnome desktop panels, how to restore? 1

Posted by Randika on June 15, 2010

I accidentally deleted the entire panels at the bottom and the top of the my fedora Gnome installation. Start menu, the clock, desktop switchers, workspaces and everything are gone now.

After googling for few minutes I found a fix for this. Here is what I did.

[randika@localhost ~]$ mkdir bak
[randika@localhost ~]$ mv -rf {.gnome*,.gconf*} bak/

As you can see I moved (I really don’t recommend deleting configuration files) all the gnome configuration files from my account to another directory named

/home/randika/bak/

then I restarted the OS. Done, now I have the default settings back on my screen.

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  • feseha
    Randika ... you saved my life with two lines of code!!!
    Thanks for sharing this!!! I accidentally deleted the bottom panel and while trying to restore it, I managed to delete all panels ... and my desktop froze on me. After trying the web for answers for two days, I almost gave up hope and then .... out of the blue your two lines appear!! I did just what you did and saw nothing happen ... In fact I had an error message that said -r is not a valid option on mv. Well as disappointed as I was, I went ahead and rebooted any way and sweet surprise ... my good old desktop appeared in its original unmangled form!
    Thanks a heap!!!
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