Help! I deleted the application launcher in Unity, along with the Files and Folders launcher! How do I get them back?
4 Answers
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.
Check this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1734534
and edit the same files to change ShowEntry=false
into ShowEntry=true
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
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.