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can't access main menu 12.04

Asked by Kevin Hayden

Just updated to 12.04 and cannot find the Main Menu. I can find the Editor, but not the Menu. The only applications that I can access are the ones that were on my desktop and in my launcher for Ubuntu 11, so I am effectively locked out of any access to the system beyond that, i.e.; Administration and Prefernces. Please try to keep your answer simple. Thanks.

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Best Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

There is no main menu in Ubuntu 12.04 the gui has changed a lot from earlier versions of Ubuntu.

Take a look at the manual here

http://ubuntu-manual.org/

If you really don't like the new interface you can get back to something very close to the old one by doing the following.

Open up a terminal by pressing CTRL_ALT+T then enter the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

Next time you log in click on the Ubuntu logo and select Classic. This with give you the old desktop back

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Kevin Hayden (kevin-hayden314) said : 		#2

Thanks Warren Hill, that solved my question.