Lost Unity

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2011 20:14, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

For the record I have submitted a bug suggesting that unity --reset
should fix things if the unity plugin is disabled in ccsm.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/881639

Colin