Panels reseting on boot!!!

**XMAG** · June 5th, 2008

Hi,

First of all let me way I'm using ubuntu 8.04

I found a website on the internet where it was suggested that I could backup my panels configuration by keping a copy of ~/.gconf/apps/panel
directory. I wanted to try having one panel (like Mint or Windows) so I deleted my upper panel and reconfigured the bottom one. I'm so used to the gnome layout I quickly gave up the idea and wanted my panels back. I have them a bit customized, transparent, with some stuff removed on the bottom one and all my launchers on the top one, so it takes a while configuring all that back (20+ launchers centered on the upper panel) so I deleted the directory referred above and replaced it with a copy of my backup.

As I expected the panels didn't instantly change so I runned "killall gnome-panel" but there was still only one panel. So I thought of changing the runlevel with "sudo init 1" and as root did the same thing again. When I logged in to my account once more I found the panels not as they were before but as they where when I first installed Ubuntu 7.10, so I manually set them as they were before I deleted the top one.

The thing is every time I reboot or log in and out my panels appear as they were at first boot!!! I can't get them configured the way I want anymore because every time I reboot I'll have to do it again and again!

Any ideas why this is happening and how to stop it?

Thanks!