Help Top panel gone

My 2 yr old son was messing with the computer while I was doing laundry and now I have no top panel. How do I get it back?](*,)

sorry wrong place

enesbitt said: My 2 yr old son was messing with the computer while I was doing laundry and now I have no top panel. How do I get it back?](*,)

i agree, wrong place....

but still... just go into the terminal and type "gnome-panel"

(assuming that was your only panel, if it wasn't then just right click on ur remianing panel and click 'new panel" and re-add whatever you previously had on it (right click again and "add to Panel" ))

I know this sounds stupid but how do I get into the terminal

enesbitt said: I know this sounds stupid but how do I get into the terminal

don't feel stupid, everyone starts somewhere :D

In the applications menu, go to "accessories" and "terminal" should be near the bottom of that menu.

To make it easier for you, you could create a shorcut on the desktop....basically right click on the desktop, and choose "create launcher" choose any name you want (i.e. terminal) then in the command box type "gnome-terminal" for an icon, you can use whatever icon you want. I suggest one that looks like a terminal, like this one here http://delfick755.googlepages.com/terminal.png just download that to a folder somewhere, then in the create launcher dialog thing, click the "no icon" button, then browse to the folder where you have your icon, and choose that icon. Then press ok

then you double click the shortcut and terminal comes up :D

it said it shows a panel running and it will exit

got it fixed thanks for all your help. My hubby had stretched the workspace area all the way across the bottom of the screen

enesbitt said: got it fixed thanks for all your help.

no problems :D