Re: Moved to Gnome 3 and can't drag and drop urls anymore

[Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux comcast net>]

Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Philip Walden wrote:
>
>
> > I have a different Gnome 3.2 installation that is in fallback mode.
> > If I place the above launcher on the top panel (which I cannot do
> > with the full Gnome 3.2), the drag and drop works as before.
> >
> > It looks like the use of custom launchers and drag-n-drop has fallen
> > by the wayside with the full Gnome 3 experience.
> You can regain this experience if you start gnome-panel (either in a
> terminal or automatically on start of a agnome session). This gives
> you the traditional panels with (almost) all features and applets.
>
> In essence, the panel is not gone. It is jut hidden from the user of
> the default theme.
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it from a terminal and got this error:

$ gnome-panel
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

I have gnome-shell running, but AFIK not another gnome-panel.

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