Missing menu bar, where could they have gone?

[Ian Coetzee]

On 2010/05/10 09:08 AM, Ian Coetzee wrote:
> Hi all
>
> My menu bar is missing on nautilus and terminal, . I cant remember what
> I changed when they dissappeared. I created a new user, and logged in as
> that user but they are still gone. I also tried using that user on xfce
> and kde but there is no problems, only on gnome. Is there anyone with
> any ideas? Anything I missed?
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
>    
Continueing from the other thread

> On 2010/05/10 08:50 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 10/05/10 15:33, Ian Coetzee wrote:
>>      
>>> Good day to you all
>>>
>>> Just a quick jot-down of my thoughts.
>>>
>>> Since the whole list at the moment is talking about what is wrong in
>>> 10.04 I want you all to know that I atempted an upgrade from 9.10 ->
>>> 10.04 (*shudder*).
>>>
>>> The whole thing started becuase I lost my menu bars(?) and thought that
>>> 10.04 might fix it. I started the upgrade via SSH shell from far away
>>> (work). When I got home I took a look at what happend.
>>>
>>>        
>> [pruned]
>>
>>      
>>> *Unfortunately it did not fix my menu bar problem I will create a new
>>> thread to discuss that one.
>>>
>>>        
>> I have a note here which I followed when I had a similar problem to you.
>> Do this:
>>
>> in a terminal, killall -l gnome-panel
>>
>> then CTRL-ALT-F1, login and do
>>
>> rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd
>>
>> after which do CTRL-ALT-F7 and you will be back at the Desktop.
>>      
I think you misunderstand which menu bar I am talking about :)

It is the one with the "File, Edit, Help" dropdowns :)

Regards
Ian
>>
>> The above will wipe clean the top and bottom panels and bring them back
>> to the default setting. You will now have to repopulate/configure them
>> with whatever you had in them before you had this problem.
>>
>> BC
>>
>>      
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