Accidentally removed system tray from top panel. Emergency!

[oliverb4ss]

I accidentally removed the system tray part of the top panel, where all the icons for the active programs are (eg. messenger, music player, uTorrent and so forth).

It seems like they're just outside of the screen on the left side as the messenger notifications appear from that side, but I even don't have a panel there.

I know it sounds like a stupid question, but I'm newbie at Linux and I really need the tray in order to access some of the stuff.
Please help!

Thanks.

[nicolasdiogo]

assuming that you do not mind losing the preference for other packages (options and setting);

you can delete the setting for all packages like this:

logout of gnome or kde
then click all at the same time

ctrl + alt + 1

this will take you to a blak screen (it is good)

enter your username and password

once you login then:

cd ~

this will take you to you home directory

then create a back directory for all your settings

mkdir settingsBackUp

and move all setting into it:

mv .* settingsBackUp


now log back into your desktop with:

ctrl + alt + 7 OR ctrl + alt + 9 (can not remember for sure)

and the default settings should be used as when you login for the first time.

regards

[oliverb4ss]

Thanks for taking your time to explain it to me, but I was panicing and didn't look at things carefully.

It appears I just had to select "Add to panel" and scroll down to the utilities section from where I selected notification area.

But so far this has been the most helpful forum I've been to regarding Linux :) .

[nicolasdiogo]

if you have queries related to ubuntu, try the official forum,
it is very good and fast