Lost Ubuntu 12.10 sidebar

[aweshucks78]

I have recently hidden my sidebar, and I cannot for the life of me figure out where its gone to. Any suggestions as where to find it. Not only is my sidebar gone, but dash software finder libre a whole slew of apps. Please help

[mikewhatever]

Lubuntu doesn't have side bars and dashes. Is that the problem?

[aweshucks78]

yes that is correct, I have had them up untill today. Then I installed an Netflix and adobe updates and now I can't accees the default desktop home pages, IE mozilla libre dash etc

[rs99cool]

I had the same problem trying to get Wine to work and all of a sudden everything went berserk and I had no sidebar, no terminal, no dash, colors were wrong and it took me two hours to figure out that I'd lost the Unity interface. Now everything's back to normal, thank God. Search Google for Unity Replace, I think the command is "unity -- replace" but check online (if you still have a browser!). To get to Terminal use Ctrl-Alt-F2. To get back to your GUI use Ctrl-Alt-F7.