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GNOME Panel is a highly configurable launcher and taskbar for GNOME

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Which packages provide the pictured gnome-panel applets?

Which source packages contain the source code of the indicated applets? If the answer is a catch all source package like "gnome-applets", what is name and location of the individual applets within ...
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When starting or log off/on, add'l panels show and some panel applets are duplicated

After upgrading to 12.04 Gnome Classic amd64,every time I log on a new additional blank panel appears on the top and bottom panels - which I delete every time. In addition, the default panel applets ...
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no background in second screen (separate X screen) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: When starting or log off/on, add'l panels show and some panel applets are duplicated After upgrading to 12.04 Gnome Classic amd64, the second screen is pure white. When ...
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Top-Bottom panels are not showing up on startup in classic Gnome in Ubuntu 11.04

I use Ubuntu 11.04 fully updated, classic Gnome DE, Synaptic for installations and uninstallations. I have uninstalled Banshee, Empathy and Evolution which are I am not going use ever. Did mark for ...
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With Xmonad / GNOME, switch gnome-panel between monitors

I'm using gnome with Xmonad as my window manager on Ubuntu 11.10. When I use a external monitor with my laptop, extending the desktop with either nvidia-settings or disper, the gnome-panels (Top bar ...
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Change gnome panel hiding sensitivity Ubuntu 10.04

I would like to know if there's a way to change the sensitivity (or response) of the Gnome panel when the Autohide option is enabled, because every time I hover over that area it keeps coming up when ...
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Gedit tries to open everything!

I am having a huge problem. Whenever i try to open a file gedit tries to open it. For example I download something with firefox, i click on the file to open it and gedit opens! Even in when I want to ...
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gnome-panel has multiple rows -- how to undo that?

On Ubuntu 12.04 I use openbox with a single "gnome-panel" started. But after trying to configure my two screen in Xinerama mode I got additional rows of panels each time X restarted. And despite I ...
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How I can set a keyboard shortcut to access the Applications or Places menu?

How I can set a keyboard shortcut to access the Applications or Places menu in gnome classic on ubuntu 12.04?
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Ubuntu 12.04 gnome classic problem - multiple top and bottom bars

I'm using ubuntu 12.04, with gnome classic. I was using it with no problem. Then after I logged in once I saw 4 bars at the top of the screen and 4 at the bottom instead of 1. How can I fix it? I ...
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How can I make the Unity 2d Shell dodge GNOME Panel when running both simultaneously?

I'm using GNOME Fallback in 12.04, and I'm running the Unity 2D Shell (WITHOUT THE UNITY 2D PANEL) and GNOME Panel. I've done this by logging in using GNOME Fallback, and then running unity-2d-shell. ...
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How can I put quick launchers in the top-panel?

How can I put quick launchers in the top-panel. There is space for many many useful launchers.
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"Add to panel" doesn't work with indicator-applet-complete [closed]

I've recently installed ubuntu 12.04 and I'm using gnome classique (gnome-panel.) Eveything is fine except that I have a problem when using 'add-to-panel' (super-key + alt + right-click): it works ...
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How do I change the Super-Alt-RightClick combination for the panel edit menu in Gnome Classic?

I can use Super-Alt-RightClick on the Gnome panel in Gnome Classic (Ubuntu 12.04) and this gives the edit menu (Add to Panel, Properties, etc...). How can I change this? I would like to either change ...
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Can't open Panel settings with super-alt right-click in gnome-classic after resize

In 12.04, I just tried the pane-setting 'resize' (or autoshrink or what it is named). Now, I don't like it any longer and I would like to switch back. But since the panel is shrunken, there is no ...
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How do I configure the gnome panel from a script?

I can easily set the number of workspaces and the workspace names with the gconftool-2, as follows: gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 4 gconftool-2 --type string -...
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Panel settings not appearing on right-click in gnome

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04. I switched to Gnome classic from unity as I'm more comfortable with the former. However, I couldn't find where the panel setting are. Usually a drop down menu appears on ...
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how to reset gnome panel?

I think my gnome-panel is messed up because I alt+right click it and nothing pops up. I'm on 12.04, classic gnome desktop. so I used locate and found gnome-panel in .gconf somewhere, how do I clear ...
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Resource Graphs in top panel?

I'm running Gnome Classic in Ubuntu 11.10 and in previous versions of Ubuntu it was fairly easy to get resource graphs to appear in the top menu, but now the regular way of getting said graphs in the ...
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How can I show Thunderbird Lightning tasks and events in the Gnome Clock applet?

We used to have this functionality with Evolution: clicking on the date-time in the gnome panel would show a list of events/tasks/appointments from the Evolution Calendar. As an interesting side ...
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I can't permanently add icons to the top bar anymore- they disappear upon reboot

I accidentally deleted the top bar and now it will not save icons that I add to it. I'll spend 5 minutes adding icons back only to find they disappear upon rebooting. This has to be the strangest, ...
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Is it possible set gnome 3 fallback panel font

Is it possible to use a font for the gnome panel which isn't the default font. I tried to define the font inside a gnome theme but that doesn't chnge anything and if i write something like : gtk-...
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Customize gnome-panel in Openbox?

I'm running Gnome/Openbox and I was able to load gnome-panel, which is great, but for some reason I can't right-click on it (i can, but nothing happens) and I don't see any other way to customize my ...
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Can't find the logout+shutdown menu

I removed the by default rightmost menu from the panel (the one allowing logout, reboot, shutdown, etc.) and can't find it in the "Add to Panel" menu. I'm using Ubuntu 10.4 with the GNOME Panel 2.30.2....
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Gnome Session Fallback with Compiz -> Alt Click on Panel

As described here is is possible to enable the window snapping by activating Compiz. However this also disables the Alt+ ability on the panel. So after activating Compiz it is not possible anymore to ...
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Repeated / Stretched Top Panel with Gnome Classic

Has anyone seen something like what is shown in this screenshot (the back of the top panel is repeated before the panel itself is shown)? I'm using: Ubuntu 11.10 Switched to Gnome Classic Dual ...
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How to add a launcher to a program/script inside my home dir?

I'm still using Gnome 2, and I want to add a launcher to gnome-panel that will run: ~/bin/foobar.sh. However, when I tried that, it gives me: Failed to execute child process "~/bin/foobar.sh" (No ...
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Window List on my Gnome Panel doesn't respect all of my icon theme

I'm running Window List on my gnome-panel and a there are some apps that do respect my icon theme and some that don't. Gnome-terminal does, Firefox does not. Nautilus does, gVim does not. Ubuntu 10....
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Why won't the application menu appear in Gnome Panel?

In Gnome Fallback mode, the application launcher menu that is supposed to be in the top left corner is missing. Here's a picture: How do I get that menu to appear?
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Gnome Panel Crashes [closed]

I recently started to experience a problem with Ubuntu 11.10 GNOME Panel. When I click on the standard sound icon over there, the whole panel disappears and reloads in a second or so, and I think its ...
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How do I remove the separators from the gnome panel?

The separators that are displayed in the gnome panel for certain themes are really ugly looking and I'd like to find out how to remove them completely (either by somehow modifying the panel separator ...
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How do I remove an icon from the top panel in GNOME Fallback mode?

When I right click the Filezilla icon, the only options are "launch" and "properties". How do I remove it from the top panel?
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The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet" What does it mean?

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet" What does it mean? What is OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet? Should I click Don't Delete or Delete?
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Why doesn't Skype appear in the upper panel?

I normally start Skype and it appears in the upper panel and works. But now when I start it, it doesn't appear! But it works like normal. Stackapplet is appearing in the panel. My whitelist: ['...
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panel encountered a problem while loading "Clock Applet Factory:: ClockApplet

I am facing the error in above snapshot frequently on my system. What is a solution for this all my tool bar and related icons disappear after this in panel.
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Alt + right click does not work to edit GNOME panel in Unity

The alt + right click combination does not work for editing gnome-panel in the unity interface, but I eventually found that holding alt and clicking both mouse buttons at the same time worked to bring ...
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How do I move the weather indicator to the top-panel in gnome-shell

I'm having a really annoying problem! I just can't move an extension (weather indicator) from bottom panel to top panel!! I would really appreciate if someone helped!
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Start the unity panel through the command line?

In previous versions of Ubuntu I could start the panel by typing gnome-panel into a terminal. This would cause the top and bottom panels to appear, helpful, for example, if I was in a different ...
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Missing evolution mail and chat icons from panel in oneric ocelot

I had Ubuntu 11.04 installed on my machine. Upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 and installed weather-indicator. After this, my evolution mail and chat(empathy) icons that were placed in the panel (at right-up ...
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How to remove link from application panel

In Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Classic shell I managed to add some links to the application panel (top panel with Applications, Places menu). But I don't know how to remove a link from the panel.
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How can I make the battery icon appear in my gnome-3 panel only when charging or discharging?

I am using ubuntu 11.10. There was an option for the same in 11.04. I found a suggestion listed here. Unfortunately, it does'nt work. $ GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.power-...
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In there an indicator applet for Gnome Panel 3? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: I can't add a Indicator Applet to Panel in Gnome-Classic I've been exploring Gnome Panel 3 in 11.10 for a while now, and I think it's really great. However, I would really ...
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What's new in Gnome Panel 3.2?

Gnome Panel, also known as Ubuntu/Gnome Classic, is available in a brand new version for Gnome 3. One of the things I like about it, is that when you use vertical panels, applets are made vertical as ...
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How to edit whitelisted apps in the notification area in gnome fallback session?

In order to edit which whitelisted apps are visible in the notification area, I normally could use dconf editor and edit from the unity panel entry as shown here. The thing is, I have gnome fallback ...
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Broken Gnome panel after update

Like every single update on Ubuntu system, my graphical system is completely broken after updating to version 11.10 As shown in the image, the date is in the middle of the panel, There are many ...
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Remove unwanted shortcut gnome classic

On ubuntu 11.10 using gnome classic I accidently made an error and now I have to deal with a redirect button to the gnome tweak tool in the top bar of the gnome interface, right next to the locations ...
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How to add language indicator?

I have Ubuntu 11.10. I have installed gnome-classic using: sudo apt-get install gnome-panel The problem is, the top panel doesn't show the language I am using right now (I use 3 different languages) ...
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How Can I Set the Unhide Speed of the Gnome-Classic Panel?

I have installed gnome-session-fallback. I followed Håkon A. Hjortland's excellent instructions from How to customize the gnome classic panel, but autohide (and even more importantly unhide) is still ...
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directories missing, only the home folder showing?

in gnome classic, in the places menu, only the home folder is listed, yet the videos, pictures etc folders are actually present in the home older and in the side panel does anyone how to fix this? ...
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How to get rid of the multiple top bars in gnome classic

Since upgrating to Ubuntu 11.10 I've been trying to get back to the look and feel of Gnome2. The closest I came is Gnome Classic, but I'm getting multiple (8) top bars. Normally I would right click ...
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