Item missing from Menu Bar

[hunterrjh]

The settings/shut down button has disappeared from Ubuntu 13.10.

Don't know what I did, or how to retrieve it

[vanadium]

There are issues with the indicators. Most notably is that the date-time indicator is sometimes not shown, but it also happens that other indicators are not properly initialized. It will reappear on reboot, or probably already upon logging out/logging in. That problem is know, and the fix should land soon in our system.

[hunterrjh]

Thank you vanadium. The time is showing, but not close down button. I'll wait for the fix. Thanks again

[philinux]

There are issues with the indicators. Most notably is that the date-time indicator is sometimes not shown, but it also happens that other indicators are not properly initialized. It will reappear on reboot, or probably already upon logging out/logging in. That problem is know, and the fix should land soon in our system.

+1.

to restore the settings gear use this from a terminal.

setsid unity

[hunterrjh]

Great. Thanks Philinux

That terminal entry fixed my problem.

[hunterrjh]

Great. Thanks Philinux

That terminal entry fixed my problem.

Yes. All was fine last night, but when I turned my computer on for the first time today, (about 3 hours ago), there is NO Menu Bar, and I cannot get Launcher bar to appear.

After much tinkering, I found how to get settings box to appear, and was able to change Appearance - Behaviour box to disable Auto-hide the Launcher, but still, nother appears. I was able to enter the Terminal box via Ctrl + alt + T, and nothing has changed, and still no laucher bar and no menu bar.

What can I do. I am typing this on another computer.

[hunterrjh]

Yes. All was fine last night, but when I turned my computer on for the first time today, (about 3 hours ago), there is NO Menu Bar, and I cannot get Launcher bar to appear.

After much tinkering, I found how to get settings box to appear, and was able to change Appearance - Behaviour box to disable Auto-hide the Launcher, but still, nother appears. I was able to enter the Terminal box via Ctrl + alt + T, and nothing has changed, and still no laucher bar and no menu bar.

What can I do. I am typing this on another computer.

I just closed down my computer (only I can by turning power off), still no Meno Bar, and no Launcher bar, so I don't have access to any programs, or the web. I got back into terminal, and again re-entered

[hunterrjh]

Yes. All was fine last night, but when I turned my computer on for the first time today, (about 3 hours ago), there is NO Menu Bar, and I cannot get Launcher bar to appear.

After much tinkering, I found how to get settings box to appear, and was able to change Appearance - Behaviour box to disable Auto-hide the Launcher, but still, nother appears. I was able to enter the Terminal box via Ctrl + alt + T, and nothing has changed, and still no laucher bar and no menu bar.

What can I do. I am typing this on another computer.

I just closed down my computer (only I can by turning power off), still no Meno Bar, and no Launcher bar, so I don't have access to any programs, or the web. I got back into terminal, and again re-entered setsid unity.

It ran through all the normal entry lines. I notice the last line of data entry says comiz (core) - error; Plugin 'composite' not loaded.



Any ideas?

[vanadium]

Try resetting the unity options: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...-ubuntu-13-10/ From your broken unity session, you might be able to lauch a terminal using the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+T. Alternatively, use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text console. I would probably only run the command to reset the config

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

then restart the computer

sudo shutdown -r now

A post at the bottom here http://askubuntu.com/questions/36047...-after-upgrade shows a method to reset to defaults using Compiz Config manager, but then you need to be able to launch it first.

[hunterrjh]

Try resetting the unity options: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/...-ubuntu-13-10/ From your broken unity session, you might be able to lauch a terminal using the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+T. Alternatively, use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text console. I would probably only run the command to reset the config

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

then restart the computer

sudo shutdown -r now

A post at the bottom here http://askubuntu.com/questions/36047...-after-upgrade shows a method to reset to defaults using Compiz Config manager, but then you need to be able to launch it first.

I entered the command line as you said, restarted but nothing changed.

I started typing this message back to you, when I noticed I had left off the forward slash at the end. I corrected that, and both the Menu bar and Launcher bar have reappeared.

Lets hope it'll be ok now.

Thank you very much.