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gnome-media package

Volume control applet's menu bar unable to reattach

Asked by Predator106

Hello, I am using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy-Heron), and have installed a package (cannot remember which), that I could customize the Gnome GUI slightly more. It appears that this program just enabled a setting that is normally hard to find, and did not merely "create" a setting. The setting I enabled was the ability to remove the menu bars of most (if not all) programs. Anyways, I right clicked the volume control applet, clicked open volume control. When the window popped up, I dragged the menu bar off of the window (to test it out). And now I cannot put it back on, every time I click and hold to drag it back, the entire (2) windows completely disappear. The detached menu bar also appears on the taskbar, so I right-clicked that and went to move, and trying to move it back where it was, has no effect, it just doesn't want to reattach. This is a really strange bug...

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This question was originally filed as bug #241357.

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Paul Broadhead (pjbroad) said : 		#1

Thanks for reporting this bug which I can confirm. I have assigned it to the package gnome-media.
The application you used to set the open was probably gconf-editor.

To restore the window menu you need to delete a file. Open the file browser using "Places->Home Folder" and toggle the location bar to text (the button is top left just below the menu bar). In the text line, append "/.gnome2" to the line (note the dot). In this folder you should see a file called "gnome-volume-control" which can be safely deleted setting you menu option base to the default.

To switch the menu tearoff option off, you need to run the config-editor again. Be careful, you can change many things using this application! Press alt-F2 and type "gconf-editor" into the dialogue then click "run". Expand the "desktop" branch, scroll down and click on "interface". Scroll the right-hand window down until you can see "menus_have_tearoffs" and then uncheck that option. Then just close gconf-editor.

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Predator106 (predator106) said : 		#2

Well, the easiest way to fix the app itself to it's original state was just to use the package managed, and reinstall it. Also, does this affect every application, so is it a buggy setting, or do just certain applications respond badly to it?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#3

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

To reinstall and purging setting using terminal....

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install name_of_package

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

To reinstall without purging application settings:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install name_of_package

To remove and purging application settings:

sudo apt-get --purge remove name_of_package

Hope this helps

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