Right click on the panel and add "Workspace Switched", that should handle your "four little desktops"

Kevin

On Mar 15, 2011 2:40 PM, "betty" <nicepenguin@webcanine.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how i did this; but as i was moving the mouse somewhere i
> accidentally right or left clicked and voila;
> my four little desktops disappeared from the panel and instead there are
> duplicates of any of the open window icons. grrrr.
> i looked around in preferences, and panel preferences and at ubuntu but
> could find nothing specific to this. i tried restarting the computer.
>
> any ideas greatly appreciated. this is an annoyance more than a problem,
> so i understand if no one has time for this.
> thanks for listening.
>
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