This quick tutorial will show you how to restore or recover deleted or miss-configured gnome desktop panels in Ubuntu Lucid quickly and easily. Sometimes when you miss-configured the main application panel in Ubuntu, it becomes difficult to restore. This tutorial will show you how restore it.

Getting started:

To get started, press Alt-F2 on your keyboard and type the command below:

gnome-terminal

Next, type or copy and paste the commands below and press enter:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel

Then delete the current panel:

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

And finally, kill the current panel process to restore the panel:

pkill gnome-panel

That’s all to it. Your panel should be restored and all miss-configured settings gone.

Thanks for reading and please come back soon.