[Bio-Linux] Menu bar and Unity launcher disappeared

[Tim Booth]

Hi,

I've seen this a couple of times before.  Assuming your system didn't
fail part way through a package update it's normally due to a corrupted
settings file in your home folder.  To investigate, you can make a
temporary folder and shunt all your dot files into it (don't delete the
files - they have important application data in):

$ mkdir ~/my_dot_files
$ mv ~/.* ~/my_dot_files

If you get an error about permissions, fix the permissions so all files
can be moved.

Then log out and back in.  Does that fix it?

If so, do "ls -A ~" to see what files and directories got recreated and
just move back those that did not.  An exception is that you should get
a new ~/.local/share directory and you can restore the missing items
from ~/my_dot_files/.local/share to get back those application settings
too.

Cheers,

TIM

On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 21:39 -0400, Tauqeer Alam wrote:
> Hi Tim
> 
> I am using Biolinux8 as only OS on my machine. This morning I noticed
> that the menu bar and the side bar disappeared when I logged in
> through Ubuntu (default). The Ctrl+Alt+t command is also not working.
> However, I can access everything when I log in through Compiz,
> Metacity or MATE.
> 
> 
> Please help!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Tauqeer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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