On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:14 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: > On 21 April 2010 09:22, Norman Silverstone <[email protected]> > wrote: > I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and have used Ubuntu from the very > first version. > When an application is selected a box appears on the bottom > panel with > the application name etc. and the first application selected > always > appears on the extreme left hand side of the panel. At least > it did > until this morning. I must have done something of which I am > not aware > and now the first application box appears on the bottom panel > about 4cm > in from the LHS. It is almost as if another application has > been > selected which has no name and no box but occupies the space > of a box. > > Has anyone any idea on what I need to do to rectify this > situation, > please. > > Norman > > It may be just a case of moving the application list panel component > back to position. Here is a very rough guide... > > 1) Try drag the application list back into place by clicking the > middle mouse button slightly to the left of the first application box > (may require a little trial and error) > 2) Right click with the mouse lightly to the left of the first > application box and you should get a menu that has Move as an option. > > If you are still having problems, right click on either panel and > select create new panel. Add the application list and any other > components you want to the new panel. When you are happy delete the > orignial panel and drag the new one in its place. > > You can lock items to the panel to stop you accidentally dragging them > into a different position - right click somewhere on the panel item to > get its menu.
Thank you very much, method 1) solved the problem. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
