[Bio-Linux] Menu bar and Unity launcher disappeared

[Tauqeer Alam]

Thanks Tim! This worked and I could fix the problem. The problem was with
my ".profile" file.

Really appreciate your help

Best
Tauqeer

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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