Creating, Moving, and Removing Panels

Creating new panels

To add a new Panel to your desktop, select Panel->Create panel from the Main Menu. Choose from the following Panel types:

• Menu Panel — The Menu Panel is a special Panel which is always placed at the top of your screen and contains several pull-down menus. These are Programs, Favorites, Settings, Desktop, and a special menu which provides quick access to GNOME-related Internet resources (look for the bullet hole icon). This Panel can also hold the other objects which other Panels can hold, but it does not have the configuration properties which other Panels have. Note that the Menu Panel is more restrictive than other Panels, and some normal Panel operations, such as moving the Panel, cannot be performed on it.

• Edge Panel — An Edge Panel is exactly like the main Panel that starts up with GNOME; it stretches along the whole length of one of screen edges. By selecting this type of Panel, you may add a new Panel to another edge of your screen to give yourself more functionality.

• Aligned Panel — An Aligned Panel is also positioned along one of the screen edges. But unlike an Edge Panel, an Aligned Panel will not stretch across the entire edge of the screen it is on; It will only stretch as much as necessary to display the icons and applets it contains. It can be positioned either at one of the corners (in this case, it will stretch towards the opposite corner) or at the center of the edge (in this case, it will stretch in both directions,