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Bigmon
December 4th, 2014, 12:34 AM
Hi !
Wonder if anyone can help. Something has happened (or I have done something) and now when I am in the desktop mode I cannot see any menu options at all. All I can see are the desktop files. There are no options to access dash, wireless, shutdown etc. I cannot do anything. They are there, however, in guest mode. I have tried restarting gnome and unity which are suggestions from previous threads but this has not worked. All was working fine until I was in k3b copying a disk when it went pearshaped.
Any ideas ?
veddox
December 4th, 2014, 11:13 AM
Sounds like you somehow managed to screw your Unity... The desktop files are handled by Nautilus, that's why you don't have any problems there. I would probably try to reinstall Unity.
Bigmon
December 4th, 2014, 01:39 PM
I have tried with reinstalling unity from the command line but did not work.
veddox
December 4th, 2014, 01:57 PM
Did you make sure you purged you're old installation before reinstalling?
sudo apt-get purge unity
sudo apt-get install unity
Bigmon
December 4th, 2014, 05:15 PM
No, I am afraid that did not work either.
ibjsb4
December 4th, 2014, 06:00 PM
I do not run Unity, but I do know that there are reset commands for both unity and compiz.
http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142:u-ocqbntw_o&q=reset+unity&sa=Search&cof=FORID:9
Bigmon
December 4th, 2014, 08:43 PM
I have tried the suggestions from the above link, but when attempting to run the code where it asks to "gedit compiz etc", the computer tells me it cannot open display.
CantankRus
December 5th, 2014, 01:11 AM
Log in normally.
ctrl+alt+t to open a terminal
or
Right click on the desktop and create new folder.
Open the new folder and navigate to /usr/share/applications
Copy and paste the "Terminal" file to your desktop.
Open the terminal and run...
dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
Then logout...
kill -9 -1
Log in.
ibjsb4
December 5th, 2014, 04:15 AM
For the reset option, I followed this link.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+question/211866
More detail can be found at the 'webupd8.org' link.
Bigmon
December 5th, 2014, 10:16 AM
When I arrive at /usr/share/applications there is no terminal option. Just nerolinux.desktop options. Which I cannot open because it says that it is an untrusted launcher. I cannot open a terminal with ctrl/alt/t, nothing happens. If I open a command line with ctrl/alt/f1 ( not sure if this does the same job) and put code dconf reset -f/org/compiz/ I get cannot autolaunch d-bus without x11 $display. (My apologies for the code but I am trying to write this from a kindle and I cannot seem to copy and paste anything)
CantankRus
December 5th, 2014, 10:42 AM
When I arrive at /usr/share/applications there is no terminal option. Just nerolinux.desktop options. Which I cannot open because it says that it is an untrusted launcher. I cannot open a terminal with ctrl/alt/t, nothing happens. If I open a command line with ctrl/alt/f1 ( not sure if this does the same job) and put code dconf reset -f/org/compiz/ I get cannot autolaunch d-bus without x11 $display. (My apologies for the code but I am trying to write this from a kindle and I cannot seem to copy and paste anything)
Login normally then switch to tty1 with ctrl+alt+F1 (or switch at the greeter if shortcuts not working)
Login to tty1 and run....
cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop ~/Desktop
Make the desktop file executable...
chmod +x ~/Desktop/gnome-terminal.desktop
logout.
Switch to tty7 with ctrl+alt+F7
Click on gnome-terminal on your desktop and run...
dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ && setsid unity
Sometimes (after waiting about 30 secs) you may need to reload unity again...
setsid unity
Still no luck, try logging out...
kill -9 -1
and log back in.
vasa1
December 5th, 2014, 12:08 PM
When I arrive at /usr/share/applications there is no terminal option. Just nerolinux.desktop options. ...
There seem to be two sets of names for .desktop files: the names seen when you use `ls` in a terminal and the names you see when you navigate to /usr/share/applications in a file manager. So, in a file manager, you'll see Terminal or Terminal Emulator whereas the terminal will show the same file as gnome-terminal.desktop.
And
Text Editor will be gedit.desktop
Document Viewer will be evince.desktop
Network Connections will be nm-connection-editor.desktop
etc
That you see only nerolinux.desktop is scary.
Bigmon
December 5th, 2014, 03:03 PM
Thankyou very much CantankRus, that has solved the problem. I now have my taskbars back !!!
CantankRus
December 5th, 2014, 03:50 PM
Thankyou very much CantankRus, that has solved the problem. I now have my taskbars back !!!
No problem.
You might want to install gnome-session-flashback
This will give 2 extra sessions at the greeter.
Gnome Flashback Compiz
Gnome Flashback Metacity
You can just log in to the Gnome Flashback Metacity session should you have problems with the ubuntu/unity session
and run recovery commands from there.
...cannot autolaunch d-bus without x11 $display
To run the dconf command from a tty you need to be logged into an Xsession because dconf uses d-bus to write to the dconf database.
So from a tty you would specify the display to use...
DISPLAY=":0" dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ && setsid unity
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