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Mint 7 Gloria messed up after metacity uninstall
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:22 pm
by rldev
I uninstalled metacity and now my Mint 7 is in shambles. I have no start bar, video settings are out of whack. I had to reinstall metacity to get any semblance of a desktop back. But now I have no mint start bar. Not sure what the best course f action is now. Can I install Mint on top of this installation? If so, would I lose my home dir, virtualbox, etc?
Re: Mint 7 Gloria messed up after metacity uninstall
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:17 pm
by clhodapp
I'm pretty sure that this should be fixable. Are there no panels at the top or bottom of your screen?
Re: Mint 7 Gloria messed up after metacity uninstall
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:25 pm
by rldev
clhodapp wrote:I'm pretty sure that this should be fixable. Are there no panels at the top or bottom of your screen?
There are panels. Just no mintLauncher and video is screwed up,
Re: Mint 7 Gloria messed up after metacity uninstall
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:14 am
by clhodapp
If you have a panel, you should be able to right click it, say "Add to Panel.." and add a mintmenu.
Re: Mint 7 Gloria messed up after metacity uninstall
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:17 am
by rldev
No I tried that already. There is no mintmenu, it is as if it were removed from the system.
Re: Mint 7 Gloria messed up after metacity uninstall
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:11 pm
by clhodapp
Can you hit alt+f1 and use that menu to open a terminal, type "apt purge mintmenu", then type "apt install mintmenu". Then do another "Add to panel".