[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Little Girl,

That sounds like a for-the-weekend job for me. I'll check it out.

thanks
Anne


On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:19:23 -0400
Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> Anne Wainwright wrote:
> 
> > Woke up the office accounting box the other morning to a severely
> > depleted row of icons on the top panel and a ditto menu system. Even
> > the System / Preferences with the 'Main Menu' option has gone awol.
>  
> > What is the basic route to repair this? Where should I start to
> > look?
> 
> First I would try to remember what I last did that could have caused
> it, and see if I can reverse that. If that's not possible, you could
> right-click the panels and manually select the widgets that go in
> them to set it all up again, or read on:
> 
> > Oddly if I open a Guest Session, everything is there.
> 
> That's good news, and it means that you should be able to fix it by
> deleting all the .gnome directories in your home directory. This will
> set all of your GNOME settings back to default, so it will affect
> many applications (which you'll need to configure again). 
> 
> Here's hoping this quickly solves it! (:
>