Kill Then Reanimate Your GNOME Panel
December 1st, 2008 by FergatROn
I’ve run into this issue from time to time and I would normally have to reboot. So; one day I said, “No more! This is LINUX and I should be able to work around it.” Oh!? What issue am I talking about? When your GNOME panel gets stuck and there’s nothing you can do about it! I’m going to show you how to kill your gnome-panel process and then restart it. Note that it’s only a temporary solution – I know there’s a better way, but this will do for the time being.

Quick Answer: Delete any related file ending in “.ev-summary” in the ~/.evolution/mail/local/ folder. Make sure Evolution is closed before you do this.