[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart
Anne Wainwright
anotheranne at fables.co.za
Tue Aug 24 19:24:29 UTC 2010
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! (:
>
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