Removing ghone-panels permanently on a second display

[Daniel Myall <daniel lists westco co nz>]

Hi,

I have two displays on a computer (:0.0 and :0.1) driven by separate 
video cards. The first is the control desktop where software is run 
from, while the second drives a stereo display of a virtual reality setup.

I'm trying to remove the panels permanently on the second display 
without much luck - I can delete them for the current session, but then 
they come back when session is started again later. Is this a bug?

I've also tried to use gconf-editor, setting the values under 
/apps/panel/profiles/default/toplevels/[bottom_panel_screen1, 
top_panel_screen1] so that they autohide with a autohide size of 0 - 
this makes no difference, however.

I'm running Debian sid (gnome 2.8.1).

Is there a way of forcing gnome-panel to only have panels on one screen?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Daniel