Disappearing menu panel Part 2

[mark]

Hello:

I did all the things you suggested but nothing seemed to work. I was at 
my wits end due to all of my programs that I used were on the top menu 
panel and I could no longer open any programs. I finally had to 
reinstall and this time put my program shortcut icons on my desktop 
instead of in the menu panel. After a couple of times of restarting the 
computer, the menus are gone again! I am able to get to the programs I 
use most frequently, but still can't get to the menu options I need such 
as "system" to get to the system preferences and what have you. The 
screen's original resolution was set for 1280x800 which I didn't set, 
but the computer did from the installation and so I left it that way. Is 
there some way to fix this problem that keeps happening? It is driving 
me crazy!!! Thank you again for all your help!

Mark



NoOp wrote:
> On 12/29/2008 04:17 PM, markfpyles wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> I have a big problem. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome desktop) on a Dell
>> Inspiron 1525 laptop and when I closed the computer down everything was
>> fine, but when I started the computer up the menu panel at the top of my
>> screen was gone and also my taskbar at the bottom. All I am left with is a
>> blank desktop. Is there a way to get my menu at the top of my screen to work
>> again? Please tell me I don't have to re-install everything. Thank you.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>     
>
> My _guess_ is that when you started back up the desktop defaulted to
> 800x600 resolution and the menus are still there but hidden because of
> the screen resolution.
>
>
> Try this:
>
> Alt-F2 (Alt key plus F2 key)
>   then enter
>     gnome-display-properties
> and see what the resolution is set at. See if yoiu can reset to 1024x768
> or whatever your standard resoluton is. If that doesn't work, then try this:
>
> Alt-F2
>   then enter
>     gksu displayconfig-gtk
> and try resetting from there.
>
> If that doesn't work, then reboot and at the gdm login select "Session"
> and then "Failsafe GNOME" and login using that. That may get you back to
> a screen that shows the menus.
>
> And if all of those don't work, then reboot and at the grub menu, select
> the second kernel option for "Recovery". When that finishes booting
> select the xfix option. That will reset your xorg.conf to a default.
> When it finishes, select the 1st option to continue to boot normally.
>
>
>   
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