Hey all. I’ve recently upgraded my home desktop to Ubuntu’s latest release, version 9.10 Karmic Koala. I’ve also spent some time messing with my desktop, and am now using AWN (Avant Window Navigator) as my main launcher/menu, so needed to stop Gnome Panel from starting on bootup.
This is done by running gconf-editor (either from a run dialog or from CLI), and navigating to Desktop –> Gnome –> Session –> Required-Components. Now you will have three values in the panel on the right. Change the value of “Panel” from “gnome-panel” to “” (blank). Note that in order for this to work, you’ll need to have another panel application (e.g. AWN) running and in your startup programs folder.
Just a quick one. Took me bloody ages to find this out, so hope this has made things easier for some of you!
n00b
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Thanks man, you’re a life savor. In my case though, instead of making the value (blank), I made is avant-window-manager and make sure that AWN’s “autostart” feature was disabled.
Ah ok, always nice to know of another way of doing it
Cheers dude!
n00b
Thanks for pointing that one out… I’ve been pulling my hair out for a while on that. I’m still used to “gnome-session-remove” and the likes. Certainly took long enough to get that one down. And to imagine, you’re pagerank isnt even up there yet. Thats kind of a shame.
Thanks for the kind words, fella. It’ll improve in time, no doubt
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n00b
can you get gnome panel back if you wanted to change back from awn to gnome panel
Absolutely. Just reverse this process, and that should be you sorted. I haven’t tested this, but if all else fails, just uninstall AWN after changing the Panel setting and it should default back to gnome-panel.
n00b
thanks an one more question you know when you can add software to desktop on gnome panel. can you do that on awn panel or is it not possible
Hi Eddy,
Many apologies for the massively late reply! Didn’t realise you’d commented back! Currently, it’s not possible. Personally, I don’t use that function, as I like to keep my desktop for mounted volumes only. You may want to look into one of the other dock programs. I can’t tell you if any of them do contain that function, but it’s certainly worth a look…
n00b
“Note that in order for this to work, you’ll need to have another panel application (e.g. AWN) running and in your startup programs folder.”
I wish I would have found this post hours ago. No other site told me this.
No problem, mate! Glad my article helped!
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