gnome-panel

traditional GNOME desktop panel and taskbar

TLDR

Start GNOME Panel

$ gnome-panel

Replace running panel

$ gnome-panel --replace

gnome-panel provides the classic GNOME 2-style panel used by the GNOME Flashback session. It hosts the application menu, window list, system tray, clock, notification area, workspace switcher, and any number of applets (PanelApplets), arranged across one or more screen-edge panels. Layouts, applets, and applet preferences are stored in dconf under /org/gnome/gnome-panel/.The panel is launched automatically when a user logs into the GNOME Flashback session; --replace stops a running instance and starts a fresh one, useful after editing configuration or installing new applets.

PARAMETERS

--replace

Replace running panel.

--version

Print version information and exit

--help

Display help information

INSTALL

sudo apt install gnome-panel

sudo dnf install gnome-panel

sudo pacman -S gnome-panel

sudo apk add gnome-panel

nix profile install nixpkgs#gnome-panel

CAVEATS

Part of GNOME Flashback. Modern GNOME (3.x and later) uses gnome-shell instead, which does not load gnome-panel applets. Requires a working DBus session bus, gnome-settings-daemon, and the panel's GSettings schemas.

HISTORY

gnome-panel was the main GNOME 2 panel, now maintained as part of GNOME Flashback for users preferring the classic desktop paradigm.