Lost Unity

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2011 20:01, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Ioannis Vranos
> <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ioannis,
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing that extended tip. So effectively, there will be no
>>> changes unless you log out and log in again or do the above?
>>
>>
>> If you are logged in when you run the unity --reset command, the Unity
>> bar will disappear, along with other things, and you will get error
>> messages. After you reboot, you will probably get Unity OK with its
>> default icons, however if you do what I said, the Unity reset will be
>> more "clean" (for example you will not get error messages, if I recall
>> well).
>
> Actually I made a mistake. You have to be logged in GNOME, for unity
> --reset to work. I just run it in a nornal terminal, and not in a
> pseudo-terminal inside GNOME.

I tried that, but if the reason that the panel and launcher are
missing is because the Unity Plugin is disabled in cssm then unity
--reset does not fix it.  As far as I can see so far the only way is
to run ccsm from a terminal and enable the plugin, then it all leaps
into life.

Colin