Changing screen resolution: i need my toolbar back

[Scotsguy101]

Hi,

I altered my screen resolution by pressing control + Alt and the +/- buttons, however, i have now lost my toolbar from the bottom of my screen. This is becoming really annoying and pressing Conrtol + alt + +/- doesn't seem to get me back to my original screen set-up.

I am using FC4, can anyone help me out here? Is there a nice simple, keyboard shortcut solution? or do i have to edit a configuration file somewhere?

Alternatively, if i knew how to create a new toolbar that could help me work around this problem.

Any help much appreciated, Thanks!

[GNU-Fan]

FC4 uses Gnome, right?
Press Alt+F2 and write "killall gnome-panel". The panels should restart automatically. See if this helps.

[Scotsguy101]

Thanks for that, simple but very effective- nice one!

[Scotsguy101]

Hi,

Thanks again for your help. However, when i restart my computer the toolbar is missing again. I can enter the command as suggested above each time, but is there a way of making this a permanant solution?

[GNU-Fan]

So you want the gnome-panel terminated automatically at the start when you log in?

Hmm, ok. Lets say you have in your home directory a directory for your personal scripts.

/home/scotsguy/myscripts

Lets create a script file called gnomestart, which we want to be executed after login time.

We can ask GNOME to execute it on startup, but it might execute _before_ the gnome-panel has come up. Therefore we put in a small delay. Just enough that the panel can initialize before we kill it again. Lets say 5 seconds. Adjust it to your needs, depending on your computer's speed.

So the content of the file /home/scotsguy/myscripts/gnomestart will be

#!/bin/sh

/bin/sleep 5 && killall gnome-panel

Don't forget to give it permission to execute
chmod +x /home/scotsguy/myscripts/gnomestart

Now you should find in GNOME in the System/Preferences a "Sessions" item.
Under "Startup Program" add a new entry to be autostarted. Point it to your script and give it a name.

Now the gnome-panel should be killed automatically in due time after login.


PS: Of course am I aware this is a terrible hack