Lost menus

[Basil Chupin]

On 21/09/2010 19:32, [C]hicken [G] od wrote:
> The menus on both the top and the bottom. Thanks for replying, I was 
> almost ready to reinstall and start by scratch
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     On 21/09/2010 18:41, [C]hicken [G] od wrote:
>     > While fiddling around with Compiz on Lucid Lynx, I was thinking of
>     > resetting the settings by uninstalling it via synaptic. I
>     rebooted the
>     > system and silly me lost the menus.
>
>     So, you uninstalled Compiz, "via synaptic", and you "lost the menus" -
>     and you are wondering how to get those menus back, eh?
>
>     Let's start with the first principles: which menus are you exactly
>     talking about?
>
>     > Is there anyway I could get it back without downloading the packages
>     > from the internet?
>

I think you mean "panels" - the top and bottom panels.

OK, try this:

in a terminal-

killall -l gnome-panel

then

CTRL-ALT-F1

and

rm -rf gnome gnome2 gconf gconfd

then

CTRL-ALT-F7

which should bring back the panels to their original state and you will 
have to populate/adjust them to what you had in them before.

BC

-- 
I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.