The first boot of freshly installed Debian presented me with an interesting problem - there were no panels visible. Otherwise the desktop seems perfectly normal - wallpaper and computer, home and trash icons. Right-clicking at the top and bottom of the screen bore no results as no options on the lines of "Add new panel" were present.
For now I have two theories about why everything's that way:
1 - the less believable one. The panels have mysteriously vanished and for some even more mysterious reason they can't be remade.
2 - the screen resolution is set for a 4:3 display because of some default settings, but I have a widescreen and the panels just aren't shown because they can't fit in the screen.
The problem with checking the second theory lies withing the fact that I haven't been able to find a way how to change the resolution or open the terminal come to think about it, in the GUI without the usage of panels. When I tried bringing up the command prompt with Ctrl+Alt+F1 it bought up the text screen, but typing in any of the "xrandr" commands both with and without root returned: "Can't open display".
Any help/advice would be really great.
As for the OS, it's Debian 5.03, i386, Gnome GUI. Computer is HP Pavilion dv6000.
Edit:
Alt+f2 brings up nothing and RMB+Create Launcher does nothing as well.
Edit2:
I'm not so sure about the wrong screen resolution theory right now anymore.
After some further reading I wrote and tried to run scripts to launch gnome panel and terminal in gnome with no success.
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#!/bin/bash
gnome-panel
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#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal