Monday, November 7, 2016

launcher - Unity launch bar and menu bar won't come up on Ubuntu 16.04


I have an old 32-bit netbook and have been running Ubuntu since 2012. I currently run Ubuntu 16.04 LTR and have run update manager consistently. When I logged in today, my wallpaper came up but without the launch bar and without the top menu bar. I have tried everything I know of, including some of the older suggestions on this site. Despite being a long-time Ubuntu user, I am not code-savvy. I use the Unity interface for everything. Can you help?



There's been a few posts lately of launcher disappearing. Most likely everyone suffered from the same update which introduced a bug. When you boot your computer choose from the grub menu "Advanced options for Ubuntu". From the submenu select the next oldest kernel version that works.


Other than that check these Q&As:




Edit: July 15, 2019


After answer was accepted a comment was made how system worked in recovery mode. If that's the case try the solution in this answer:


Open a terminal and use:


rm -rf ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/*
sudo reboot

When rebooting select the most recent kernel rather than the older recovery option.


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