Lost Unity

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Fri 21 Oct 2011 20:46:31 SAST, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I have 11.10 installed in VirtualBox (on 10.04) and it had been 
> working well. Today I installed the Compiz settings manager. I then 
> started going through all the settings just to see what was available. 
> The only thing I knowingly changed was the width of the launcher. I 
> set the slider to its minimum.
>
> At some time while I was paging through the various settings the 
> launcher disappeared. I just thought that it was hidden, but after 
> closing the setting manage I could not get it to reappear. In fact my 
> desktop is displaying nothing except its background and and a grey 
> menu bar at the top with File Edit View Go Bookmarks Help on it. The 
> menu items work and right-clicking on the desktop shows up the normal 
> popup. If I start typing a text box opens in the lower right hand 
> corner but hitting enter just closes the window. The esc and windows 
> keys do nothing.
>
> Any idea on how to get a working desktop back, short of reinstalling?
>
> Thanks, Jim
>
>

Hi Jim,

To restore the default unity settings, you can open a terminal and type 
unity --reset.

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Best of luck,

Bruce