Can't add MintMenu - Advanced menu anymore

[capponz]

Hi,
I'm using Mate 18 on an Acer notebook.
my panel seems to be messed up.
I can't add

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MintMenu - Advanced menu

anymore.
after adding just a little dot shows up (please see screenshot)

I tried to reset the panel to its default settings with

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gsettings reset-recursively org.mate.panel

and

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mate-panel --reset

and

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mate-panel --reset --layout mint.layout

all of them with sudo. but none with success.
i also resetted with Mate Tweak tool. I tried the Gnome and the Fedora menu.

The advanced menu was set to a keyboard shortcut ALT-F1 witch does not work anymore.

Is there a way to get the MintMenu - Advanced menu back?

thanks a lot

[ibbill]

Not sure you should use sudo on resetting the panel to default.

https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2195

- you may login out and login in again to get them work again, in some cases you need to reboot your system.

- tested and worked on my MATE Dekstop Environment.

[capponz]

Hi ibbill thanks for your reply.
No, rebooting does not help. tried several times. Logout and reboot.

[ibbill]

do not use sudo

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panel --reset

One other choice is right click the bottom panel and then add new panel and add the menu there and then right click it and move it to the bottom panel.

Then get rid of the new panel you created.

[capponz]

do you mean

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mate-panel --reset

?

because

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panel --reset

comes up with:

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capponz@server-ThinkCentre-M58 ~ $ panel --reset
No command 'panel' found, did you mean:
 Command 'hpanel' from package 'hpanel' (universe)
panel: command not found

And yes I've tried that. I created a new panel. same behaviour and the advanced menu is dead.
And the keyboard shortcut I've configured with it too.
thanks

[ibbill]

so so sorry yes

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mate-panel --reset

[ibbill]

Can you right click on the 3 dots and choose preference I am posting a pick on what i have it set at

Screenshot.png

[all41]

From your previous request for advice---did you try this?:

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mate-panel --reset & mate-panel --layout mint.layout

[capponz]

Hi, as I wrote in my initial post:

I tried to reset the panel to its default settings with

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gsettings reset-recursively org.mate.panel

and
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mate-panel --reset

and
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mate-panel --reset --layout mint.layout

but yay, copied and pasted your code....
and nope same issue.

thanks

[capponz]

Yes, I tried

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mate-panel --reset & mate-panel --layout mint.layout

and I also tried to remove the mintmenu by synaptic package manager completely.
and I restarted the system many times.
no luck so far.

Any Ideas? please help

[capponz]

Can I delete the responsible files?
do I need to reinstall mate?

help please

[ibbill]

Can you right click on the 1 dot and choose preference or not. If so does yours look like the menu preference pic i posted.

Are you using compiz by any chance.


Just strange that all of a sudden the menu bar is screwed up. yikes which I was more help sorry about that.

[capponz]

thanks a lot for your reply!
No, I can't choose anything when I right click on the dot.
apart from the usual panel options. (add to panel....)
And no I do not use compiz.

[ibbill]

Can you right click on the panel and add main menu does that work.

Have you tried another user account see it if shows up.


You can try and delete the whole panel and then in a terminal

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mate-panel --reset

Good luck.

[ibbill]

last shot for me sorry. In synaptic See if its installed or you could try and reinstall it also.

Screenshot-Synaptic Package Manager .png

[capponz]

and I also tried to remove the mintmenu by synaptic package manager completely.

Yes I also did that. without success.

[Stephen12]

For those who still have such a problem, try the following:

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sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
sudo service mdm restart
mate-panel --reset
mintmenu --reset

For me it worked at Mint 18.1 MATE x64.

[capponz]

thanks a lot! it worked!