After setting the launchpad icon size and other setting the launchpad,panel and menu are vanished from the desktop

Asked by Sapharulla

I set up a program from Ubuntu support to resize the icon of Launch pad. I made certain setting to reduce the size of icons in Launch pad. Along with that a setting to introduce the cube desktop was also experimented. After my reboot the desktop shows the desktop picture only. The launch pad, menu, hot key, key board shortcuts etc. are vanished and I cannot do any thing except the Alt+Ctrl+Delete shortcut to shut down the system. My operating system is Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Language English. Please help me to restore the default desk top and shortcut keys

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Chris (fabricator4) said :
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At first I though you needed to reset the Unity Desktop, but then you say you are using 10.04. I'm a little confused about the DE (desktop environment) you're using because Unity has the "launcher" (not launch pad) but 10.04 doesn't use Unity, unless you've heavily modified your system. Please tell us what desktop environment you're using and provide the output from the following terminal command:

uname -a && lsb_release -a

Thanks,

Chris

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Sapharulla (phs-4) said :
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Dear Chris,

Thank you for the response to my problem. I have got Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome Desktop. As you said it is not Launch Pad instead it is Launcher. I tried to resize the icon in launcher with CompizConfig Settings Manager. In that configuration utility apart from resizing the launcher there are other settings also like 3D desktop. I tried to set up that and every thing including the Alt+F2 terminal opening command were deactivated. At present the Desktop picture and and Icons of certain files are only visible. Almost all key board shortcuts are inactive. The other users are undisturbed.

I shall try to run the command from one other user and inform you the result by next message.

Thanking you,
Sapharulla

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Sapharulla (phs-4) said :
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Dear Chris,

I made a mistake again that is the version of Ubuntu is 11.04 and not 10.04.

Thanks,
sapharulla

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Chris (fabricator4) said :
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OK, Unity then. Press <ctrl><alt>t to get a terminal window with your login

You can reset Unity for your user with

unity --reset

and reset the icons with

unity --reset-icons

more information can be found here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-reset-unity-launcher-icons-or.html

Chris

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Sapharulla (phs-4) said :
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Dear Chris,

Thanks a lot. The problem was solved.

Thanks and bye

Sapharulla