[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Miriam,


On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:54:26 +1000
Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> 
> The "+" cursor and rubber-band line sounds like the effect of a small
> program to measure distance on the screen. Might it have been
> installed/activated somehow by mistake?
I have to suspect somebody fiddling with it - have never had a linux
box do a 'windows' on me before. The 'Assistive Technologies' had been
enabled, disabled that and we are back to normal.

Thanks to all for the help on this one.

anne


> 
> Glad you have been able to rebuild your menus.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	- Miriam
> 
> Anne Wainwright wrote:
> > Hello, all,
> > > Thanks for all the suggestions but I did not solve the issue this
> > > way. I
> > did try, renamed the directories with a .old extension. But a
> > restart did not return to anything like a default situation.
> > > I found that a right-click on the 'Applications' menu item
> > > brought up
> > an option 'Edit Menu' which allowed me to do just that by ticking
> > the menu headings and applications that I wanted. So I would say
> > that the menu files were not corrupted per se, but something did
> > happen to cleanly remove many of the entries.
> > > One problem not mentioned, and not solved, is that the cursor is
> > behaving oddly, I will include it in this thread for the minute
> > since this happened contiguously with the now solved issues of menu
> > & icons. What happens is that it will, of its own volition, change
> > to a large '+' and then when the cursor is moved a line appears
> > joining said cursor to the original point which acts as an anchor.
> > Wierd. (gee, that looks wierd, is is really spelt like that?).
> > > Otherwise we are back to normal.
> > > thanks for the inputs.
> > Anne
> > > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:08:14 +0200
> > Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> > >> Hi, all,
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Oddly if I open a Guest Session, everything is there.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Anne
> >>
> >>
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