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Vincenzo
Asked: 2010-12-15 12:52:13 +0800 CST

How to layout application icons in the panel?

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Application and applets icons are changing their position or even disappears from the gnome-panel (see an example).

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It often happens after connecting to external monitor with different resolution setting, or sometimes happens by chance (I don't know what is the reason of such behaviour). Some icons I can move, others I can't. I don't know if they're locked or not. My question is:

  • Is there any settings/software for icon's position control in the panel? I noticed that locking does not resolve this issue.

Thank you for support.

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  1. Best Answer

    These icons are a few different things:

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      1. The Notification area

      2. The Indicator applet (all the icons are in one single panel applet)

      3. The Clock

      4. The Session Indicator

    Those are all panel applets. They are little programs that display on the panel. You can move them around like so:

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    Right click and un-check Lock To Panel, then right click again and select Move. You may need to unlock them all to move one after the others.

    Note: right-clicking the notification area will bring up the context-menu of the icon you've clicked. To get it's menu, right click on the little grabbing area on the left of it:

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    You can check if your panel will look alright after rebooting by forcing it to restart:

    killall gnome-panel

    Or, if you want to get back to the original configuration, undoing all your changes (that is all the changes you have ever made):

    mv ~/.gconf/apps/panel ~/gnome-panel-backup
killall gnome-panel

    Open a Terminal via Applications → Accessories → Terminal to enter those commands.

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