On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 17:39 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Yes, more information should have been provided. I believe I am running > Debian wheezy? When I boot up it says something about debian 6.xxx with > linux 2.xxx. I am running Gnome desktop. Whether its called a panel or > toolbar it is the 'panel' info at the top of the screen that has > 'applications, places, system, date,time and any icons that are placed > there. I did a complete uninstall of Pan which deleted the icon on the > desktop. All it did was 'grey' out the icon in that panel. I tried to > 'delete' it but deleted the whole 'panel'/toolbar or what ever one wants > to call it. Doing a restart or completely powering down and rebooting > did not restore it. Thanks to Ralf, I am able to bring up what normally > a 'click' on the panel would show so I am able to at least shut down. I > also found out how to get a new panel at the top. I managed to place the > date and time back but I don't know how to restore the > 'applications/places/system' section so I can use that to do what ever > navigation I need to do. I am a 98% GUI user and seldom use the command > line.
It was Bob who pointed out to use Alt+F2, I only was talking about the menu, that seemingly wasn't available anymore. However, Alt+F2 is a short cut that usually for all DEs opens a run dialog, resp. an app finder, perhaps there's a difference between Alt+F2 and Alt+F3 on your system. For some installs it could be different, but there are several common short cuts. I guess Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Alt+Del nowadays usually is disabled by default, but on most, if not on all *nix Ctrl+Alt+F* does switch to a terminal and one Ctrl+Alt+F* back to the desktop environment, this at least differs between Linux and BSD, I don't know if it's equal for all Linux. At the moment I'm booted to Arch, Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F6 switches to tty1 to tty6 and Ctrl+Alt+F7 back to the desktop environment. Alt+F1 might open the menu, even if the panel should be lost and can be closed by Esc. Magic SysRq key might be interesting too, I never used them in around 10 years using Linux, but many people like the magic keys. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1365373629.12191.83.camel@archlinux
