How to restore the gnome panels to their default state after you mucked them up

Not that you would ever muck them up, but just in case:

Get a terminal somehow (alt+F2 if you must). Type this in:

gconftool-2 --shutdown

or

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel

(or, both if you like)

Then,

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

pkill gnome-panel

that sounds like a lot of violence and killing and stuff, but it should work. Both of your panels will reappear like magic. If not, go here and complain because this is where I learned it!

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Way to turn an anecdote into a how-to ;)

It seems that "Remove this panel" is often not what people actually wanted to do - but it's so easy! :-)

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Hahaha... Windows habits die hard.

BTW, Gnome Classic No Effects on login is the way to go if you accidentally install Unity.