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Lost my Linux Gnome Panel (TaskBar)!!!

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Felecha

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Oh no! I'm a Linux newbie, taking a networking couse at school, got Red Hat 6.2 in lab so I installed it at home, too. Poking around, finding this and that to try out. Opened the Global Panel Properties, Miscellaneous, there's an option to adjust how much of the top edge of the Gnome Panel shows on the desktop. The default has just a bit showing, and I figured, why not set it down to zero? My Windows Taskbar doesn't show, after all. Well, at zero, it makes it so the mouse arrow doesn't pop the panel up. I can't get at anything on the panel. And that means I don't have the Main Menu, either, which is the only way I know to get the Panmel Properties back. I do know that lots of things like LinuxConf and gmenu have command-line commands that bring them up. Anyone know the command for the Panel Properties.

Like locking your keys in your car!

Thanks

Felecha
 
Also, anyone got a tip on other Linux forums? Anandtech is great, but there's not that much Linux stuff sometimes.
 
Found the keys.

I clicked out of the Enlightenment Window Manager into twm, which has a totally different look and feel, but allowed the arrow to click up the Panel, from which I could get at its properties with a right click. I upped the aomout showing, switched back to Enlightenment, and Bingo! it's back.'

Golly-wolly.
 
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