In my Laptop with Ubuntu I had deleted the Top Panel to save my Screes Estate and ran into issues. Here is my Comment on Matt Cutts Article Moving the locked top panel in Ubuntu/GNOME and posted my Problem as a Comment

I am damn frustrated..

I had deleted the Top Panel all together as far as i remember.
Now this Notification Area thing keeps annoying me, specially on Pidgin and media player alerts both of which are shows up quite often.

I don’t know how it is still showing up.
I am ok with removing the Notification area completely..
Can you (or any visitor) help?

Also I recently got a Laptop and the cursor position gets misplaced at Random when I am typing a Para. Could this be because of this?

By the Way, I have seen a lot of you in the Webspace.
Am glad for the opportunity to interact with you.

Today I went back to the Post for updates and saw the comment by “Joyce”

I had some reservations about the term shutdown in the command.
The man Page gave no clue..

I searched for “gconftool-2 shutdown”
http://www.google.com/search?q=gconftool-2+shutdown

This lead me to the following Page:
http://www.watchingthenet.com/restore-panels-in-ubuntu-back-to-their-default-settings.html

Here I found the following Solution:

Once the Terminal window opens, enter the following command at the prompt:
gconftool-2 --shutdown
(Note: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)
EDIT – Reader nickrud has suggested a better method instead of shutting down gconfd. Instead use the following command (thanks nickrud!)
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
(Remember: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)
Then enter the next command:
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
And enter one more command:
pkill gnome-panel
That’s it!

This worked fine..

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