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danduq
March 10th, 2009, 07:28 PM
Hi,

I usually have a drop-down user menu in the top-right corner for things like "Shutdown", "Lock screen", "Switch User" and so on.

After having sound card problems I somehow recently stuffed up my Gnome installation and could only get to a bash prompt at start-up. So I reinstalled gnome using "sudo apt-get remove --reinstall gnome" (or something like that, I can't find it in my history I'm afraid".

Anyway, since then I started getting the error "The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:_FastUserSwitchApplet" with the option to delete or not. Since hitting delete I no longer get the message, but still have no shutdown menu.

I've tried re-installing the fast-user-switch-applet as well, but this hasn't helped.

Any ideas where it could have gone and how I get it back?!

Thanks.

utnubuuser
March 10th, 2009, 07:33 PM
Hi - Try this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1060406

danduq
March 11th, 2009, 12:25 PM
Ah yes, brilliant! Thanks very much.

Had to recreate all my panel icons, reconfigure my compiz settings and remap my Windows key shortcuts, but otherwise, back to normal. :D

danduq
March 11th, 2009, 12:27 PM
Ummm, how can I close this thread? Or mark as fixed...?