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ubuntu 11.04 no menu or panels

Asked by Derek Sass

I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 but the menu and panels are not being displayed.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Are you logged in to Ubuntu Unity or Ubuntu classic (Gnome) session?
Example for login screen.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/lFmMj.png

## Unity
Switch to tty (virtual console, text mode only): ctrl+alt+f1
Login with username and passwd.
(Note, while typing the passwd there is no feedback such as stars or alike, just press [Enter] key after inserting passwd.)
Type:
unity --reset

Switch back to desktop: ctrl+alt+f7
or
sudo reboot

## Ubuntu classic (Gnome)
Open a terminal: ctrl+alt+t
Type:
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

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Derek Sass (ds58) said : 		#2

Sorry for the delay, thanks Sam

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

marcobra (Marco Braida) suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #1740: “ubuntu 11.04 no menu or panels”.

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Higgi (clhigginson) said : 		#4

this works GREAT!
 I had been tweaking the launcher icon size and installing effects losing most of the desktop

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