Menu bar now missing

[O. Sinclair]

On 24/06/2015 14:20, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 06/24/2015 04:28 AM, Phil wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this.
>>
>> Kubuntu version 15.04
>>
>> After installing Google Earth the desktop background turned black so I
>> rebooted the system. On restart the menu bar (the bar that should be
>> across the bottom of the screen) is now missing. This had occurred
>> recently, and had nothing to do with Google Earth, so I reinstalled
>> Kubuntu.
>>
>> That was a bit drastic and probably unnecessary because I seemed that
>> all I had to do was rename .kde to .kde_old to get things back into
>> shape. I had also renamed .config but I'm not sure if that was fix or
>> renaming .kde.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this time I don't have access to konsole because I
>> cannot access the menu. However, I can log in from a laptop using ssh
>> and I did rename .kde and it was recreated after a reboot but the menu
>> bar is still missing.
>>
>> Any help to get this going again will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> By the way, Thunderbird is the only application that is available to
>> me because it was open at the time of the problem.
>>
> 
> 
> When I looked at installing Google Earth I read this disclaimer in the
> description :
> 
>  It also does not integrate well into a Debian system.
> 
I have absolute no problem with GEarth in Kubuntu 14.10 or (earlier)
14.04. If there are issues they are likely related to Plasma5