Terminal Commands [Solved]

[sdcougar]

What is the terminal command for launching browser (firefox, chromium)? and menu?

I lost the buttons at the bottom of the screen. Can only get to browser by going to terminal and clicking "about" button under help.

Had a button at bottom that didn't respond (to close browser...'wait or close') when I right clicked I took some option to get rid of it and lost all buttons at bottom....no menu, no browser...

[Pjotr]

Firefox:

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firefox

Chromium:

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chromium-browser

... but I advise to re-add Window List to the desktop panel bar.

[WharfRat]

You can add the mint menu button back to the panel with

To run firefox from the terminal in the background enter firefox&

[gm10]

You can add the mint menu button back to the panel with
Screenshot at 2019-10-02 10-25-50.png

Wrong one, OP is using Cinnamon, mintmenu is not:

(although Cinnamon uses it in fallback mode)

Also easiest is usually to just reset the entire panel to get back to the default layout.

[sdcougar]

Thank you.

Sorry to be so dumb but how do I get there?

[Larry78723]

Press the "Windows" key, Select Preferences, Panel, set "Auto-hide panel" to "Always show panel"

[WharfRat]

You can add the mint menu button back to the panel with
Screenshot at 2019-10-02 10-25-50.png

Wrong one, OP is using Cinnamon, mintmenu is not:

(although Cinnamon uses it in fallback mode)

Also easiest is usually to just reset the entire panel to get back to the default layout.

I was just using that screenshot as an example

[xenopeek]

Assuming the panel is still shown, right-click an empty spot on it and from the menu select Troubleshoot > Restore all settings to default.

[sdcougar]

Windows key did nothing. But rt click on desk top got me to System Settings. Under Pref. /Applets I clicked 'restore default' ...shows several items with red circle on rt: "Problem loading, check Looking Glass or error log"

[panels button only showed , launch new panel or edit panel--which did nothing]

[sdcougar]

Thank you for the help but decided to use this as prime time to update to 19. So, as soon as I get my files transferred to a backup hard drive, I'll just install 19.

[Larry78723]

Might as well go directly to 19.2