On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:35:55AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Every time I open a terminal window to try and fix it, the panel disappears.

How about the following commands?

$ killall gnome-panel && gnome-panel&

Closing the terminal in which the command is run, will kill the
panel. Usually it should restart itself by killing it.

>
> Is there a way I can reinstall gnome?

There is, but I doubt this would fix anything, since the
configurations for your panel are located in your home directory. I
cannot name the exact package name right now.

> This is ridiculous - another
> testament for the success that gnome 3 has been.

You cannot seriously base your conclusion on one bug, which this
clearly is.

I don't know which version you are using, but latest Trisquel is
actually GNOME 3 in fall-back - no GNOME Shell. This fall-back is
greatly reduced in functionality than 2x versions were, but Trisquel
made some improvements and added eye-candy. I personally forget that
I'm not using 2x GNOME.

The brute-force last measure would be to delete the ~/.gnome2
directory. This used to work in GNOME 2 when there were glitches that
ware beyond fixing for me. I don't know is it still an option in GNOME 3.
There is no ~/.gnome3 directory. Have in mind that this will delete
all your settings in GNOME.

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