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Help! I deleted the application launcher in Unity, along with the Files and Folders launcher! How do I get them back?

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The only way you can remove those two launchers (which are called lenses) is to remove their packages.

You need to ensure that these packages are installed (use apt-get or find them in Software Center:

Then log out and back in.

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Check this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1734534

and edit the same files to change ShowEntry=false into ShowEntry=true

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I had these disappear randomly when I was first using Unity. Log out/in solved it, but that's clearly not ideal.

I think you might also be able to solve it by hitting

Ctrl + Alt + F1

Then logging in to that terminal and running

unity
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And if none of the above works, you can reset all the panel icons back to "default" with the following: unity --reset-icons. You'll lose any custom ones you've added, but those can be re-added again with relative ease.

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