for desperate Unity testers: you can remove gnome-panel altogether from your running session by using the solution from this thread: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/gnome-panel-entfernen/ it is in german, so here the distilled info:
CAUTION - THIS CAN BREAK STUFF # sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/gnome-panel # killall gnome-panel to revert this back to normal: # sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gnome-panel -- can't add, move, unlock applets & no clock https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519583 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
