[Solved] Lost Unity
Jim Byrnes
jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Tue Oct 25 20:20:29 UTC 2011
On 10/25/2011 08:23 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 October 2011 21:34, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> Turns out I shot myself in the foot. To get unity back I opened a terminal
>> and typed ccsm to open the settings manager. Than I noticed that Ubuntu
>> Unity Plugin was NOT checked. I checked it and Unity came back. I
>> certainly did not uncheck it on purpose. I must have dragged the mouse
>> pointer across it without realizing what I had done.
>
> I don't think you shot yourself in the foot- I think there is a bug. I
> have just had exactly the same experience (though a normal install not
> in Virtual Box). I installed ccsm and had a look at some of the
> settings and at some point the panel and launcher disappeared. I got
> similar messages and hanging when I ran unity --reset and then found
> your post, ran ccsm from a terminal and discovered as you did that the
> unity plugin was disabled. There is no way that I disabled it myself,
> and the fact that the same thing happened to you suggests a bug.
>
> Enabling the plugin brought everything back as it did for you.
>
> ...
>
> Having typed the above I went off to see if I could find a bug in
> launchpad and found this [1] - Panel and Launcher are lost if 'Set
> Default Settings' is pressed in ccsm. It is possible that I did this.
> @Jim is it possible you did this also? I have added a comment to the
> bug that it should be higher priority as I think clicking Set Default
> Settings is a natural thing to do after experimenting with settings
> and having it make the system effectively unusable is serious.
>
> Colin
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/777024
>
Colin,
I don't remember for sure but it is possible as I was going through all
of the items in ccsm trying to become familiar with what was available.
I know I will have to spend a lot more time doing it as much of the
terminology was new to me.
I followed your link [1] and it looks like it got bumped to medium.
Regards, Jim
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