[SOLVED] Application bar removed due to error = system unusable

[luca72]

hi, i am new to linux mint, exploring the system, i accidentally removed the taskbar, and there is no way to restore it even with timshift, is it possible that for such a trivial mistake, the system is unusable? is there a way to to restore it without reinstalling everything?

[Moonstone Man]

hi, i am new to linux mint, exploring the system, i accidentally removed the taskbar, and there is no way to restore it even with timshift, is it possible that for such a trivial mistake, the system is unusable? is there a way to to restore it without reinstalling everything?

You need to tell us what version of Linux Mint, what edition, and what you mean by 'taskbar' because that word means different things to different people.

how to get help

You will also benefit by reading that.

[luca72]

hi, i am new to linux mint, exploring the system, i accidentally removed the taskbar, and there is no way to restore it even with timshift, is it possible that for such a trivial mistake, the system is unusable? is there a way to to restore it without reinstalling everything?

You need to tell us what version of Linux Mint, what edition, and what you mean by 'taskbar' because that word means different things to different people.

how to get help

You will also benefit by reading that.

hi, its a last, linux mint 20, installed 4 week ago,the only bar there, the one below that starts everything, with the clock and everything else

[RIH]

Mint 20 is not the latest, that is Mint 20.1.

There are 3 desktop options in Mint - Cinnamon. Mate & Xfce - you need to say which.

Most importantly, from the URL link that you were given you need to do this..

[5] Details! Details! Details!
Include the version and architecture (32-bit, 64-bit) of Linux Mint.
List any relevant hardware or software specifications. 'inxi' is a useful terminal command for listing this. Use inxi -h for help. Generally it suffices to type the following in terminal and include the output in your post -> inxi -Fxxxrz
List what Display Environment you are using if relevant (Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE, MATE, etc).
If you have output errors, list them in their entirety.
When posting output of commands use the "Code" tags if it is more than 2 or 3 lines long - this makes it more readable. The button that inserts these tags is marked </>
If your Linux Mint installation isn't in English, prefix any commands that you want to share output of with LC_ALL=C. That forces output to be English. For example instead of running the command "make", you'd run the command "LC_ALL=C make".

[Moonstone Man]

hi, its a last, linux mint 20, installed 4 week ago,the only bar there, the one below that starts everything, with the clock and everything else

Yes, well, nobody can help you unless you first do the absolute minimum to help yourself, which in this case is to read the link you were given.

[luca72]

hi, its a last, linux mint 20, installed 4 week ago,the only bar there, the one below that starts everything, with the clock and everything else

Yes, well, nobody can help you unless you first do the absolute minimum to help yourself, which in this case is to read the link you were given.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.8.0-50-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-dw0xxx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 85F0 v: 36.41 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.42 
  date: 02/05/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 6.4 Wh condition: 11.9/41.0 Wh (29%) volts: 11.8/11.4 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8565U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: B L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 31999 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/4600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 786 5: 799 6: 799 7: 795 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3ea0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce MX130] driver: nvidia v: 460.56 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:174d 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa tty: N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce MX130/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.56 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip ID: 8086:9dc8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-50-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8821ce v: v5.5.2.1_35598.20191029 
  port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:c821 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 92.64 GiB (19.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
  lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: 20110006 scheme: GPT 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 port: 6060 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 30 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 169.88 GiB used: 92.59 GiB (54.5%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: 29.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 39 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mkusb-ppa-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mkusb/ppa/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 246 Uptime: 7m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 2.40 GiB (31.3%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

im sorry, here is all the information, I did not know the key sequence to launch the terminal, since the bar is missing

[luca72]

solved, it was enough to open the control panel from the terminal "cinnamon-settings" > panel , and add a new bar, simple, fast, and without too many problems, I hadn't thought about it