Creating, Moving, and Removing Panels

Moving panels

Any Panel you have on your desktop can be moved by using the middle mouse button, or by simultaneously pressing the left and right mouse buttons, to drag the panel to the desired edge of your screen. If you do not have a middle mouse button and did not configure your mouse to emulate a middle button you may also move a Panel by changing its location in the Panel properties dialog. You can read more about this in the section called Individual Panel Properties of this documentation.

Removing panels

To remove an existing panel, right-click on it and choose Remove this panel command from the Panel menu. You will be prompted for a confirmation.

NOTE: At all times, you must have at least one panel; GNOME will not allow you to remove your only panel.

Creating new panels

To add a new Panel to your desktop, select the Create panel command from Panel menu. You have a choice of four possible panel types:

Changing panel type: You can also change type of existing panel — for example, convert edge panel to a floating panel, see the section called Individual Panel Properties.