dell mini 9 w/ 9.04 recently installed

[Brianc0713]

after installing 9.04 from a usbdrive and installing updates. i now have no panels... what should i do? i can right click and options show up but i cannot run anything.

[KegHead]

Hi!

I can't help you, but my 9.04 clean installation was flawless.

I'm curious to hear from the group what might have happened.

KegHead

[ugm6hr]

Did you install the Netbook Remix or the standard desktop Ubuntu (or possibly Xubuntu, or used XFCE+NBR)?

Was the desktop correct to start with?

Have you enabled any unusual repositories?

My panel misbehaves occasionally (see my post elsewhere), but the Gnome panels don't generally disappear.

[Vaun]

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to gain access to a text console (your screen will turn black with a prompt in white text, and if not running from the CD you may be asked to login).

sudo rm -rf ~/.gconf .gconfd .gnome2

Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 (to return to the graphical interface).

Restart X by logging out and back in, or typing sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart.

You're settings are going to be restored to the default ones. This seems to be an issue with the desktop-switcher.

I built the new settings for ume-config-netbook from bazaar trunk and that did seem to reconcile issues.

I am using the default GNOME desktop without the bottom panel and the winoow-picker applet. This makes very good use of the real estate on my Dell Vostro A90 and allows me to use Compiz. Compiz and the netbook-launcher are not playing well together at the moment.