Desktop icons not showing up

[stuart_jones2]

Last night my computer was running fine, this morning however after logging in just the screen saver appears, no side or top bars.
I found this thread
https://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears#76951

and used the settings manager to enable Unity and also the post marked 130, but nothing
I'm running 16.04 LTS on a Packard bell Desktop
Many thanks in advance for any help

[rmgak2]

I am having problems with launcher icons and start menu not showing up on my account with I logo in with Ubuntu 16.04 I can login to my guest account and launcher icons and start menu show up. Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

[steve3332]

A few days ago there was a couple of threads regarding the same problem and the solution seemed to be to simply run Bleachbit and let it clear out the system cache:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2337115&page=4

After doing so my system has been fine with no lingering effects though I have no idea what happened to cause the problem.

[stuart_jones2]

Thanks for your reply steve3332,
I use Bleachbit quite regularly and think I had used it a few times in the days leading up to this problem.
My question though is how do I use it when the icons do not show up, I can open a terminal through right click on the desktop, is there a command I need to use?
Sorry I'm still very new to Ubuntu

[steve3332]

On the icon-less desktop I right clicked with the mouse, opened a terminal window and typed "bleachbit" minus the quotations. Made the appropriate selections and let 'er rip.

[stuart_jones2]

Thanks steve 3332,
ticked all the box's marked cache and ran bleachbit, had to hard shut down, but now life is good again.
Thanks for your time and help

[rmgak2]

Running Bleachbit worked for me for me. I had to launch Firefox (gksudo firefox) from the terminal command line since I could not use the launcher icons . Download the software using Firefox and install the software. I cleaned out the system file and it work! Thank you.