Ubuntu Control Center is gone from Application menu & Desktop. I have Ubuntu 18.04. Please help.
2 Answers
The suggested links didn't help. I tried to reinstall gnome-control-centre, and make it come up via Terminal, but it appeared empty page. So, once the solution can't be found on the Internet, I have to reinstall Ubuntu. That's proved working.
Run it using terminal first and look at logs in terminal if nothing wrong happens:
gnome-control-center
Run the next commands to make sure you have only one Gnome control center:
find /usr/share/applications/* -iname *control* | grep center
Output: /usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop
find /home/$USER/* -iname *control* | grep center
Here's nothing should be displayed
Open other terminal window and run journalctl -f
to watch what will happen during .desktop
file opening, editing, saving and closing.
Open your gnome-control-center.desktop
file and make sure it looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Settings
# Translators: Do NOT translate or transliterate this text (this is an icon file name)!
Icon=org.gnome.Settings
Exec=gnome-control-center
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Settings;
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-control-center
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=shell
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.34.1
# Translators: Search terms to find this application. Do NOT translate or localize the semicolons! The list MUST also end with a semicolon!
Keywords=Preferences;Settings;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-control-center-2.0
It could disappear if binary in Exec
could not be found. So try to modify it as follows:
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-control-center
or
Exec=/usr/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/gnome-control-center'
Also, whereis gnome-control-center
could help in binary path identifying. Check also that binary owner and rights by:
ls -ailh /usr/bin/ | grep control
Save and close editor's window.
And to reinstall it yo could better use:
sudo apt purge gnome-control-center && sudo apt clean && sido apt update && sudo apt install gnome-control-center
And you could also create new user, login with it and check if for the new user the issue occurs or not.
If your apt system could not locate gnome-control-center
package, make sure your repositories list configured correctly.
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Gryu, thanks for your answer. I tried to follow the instruction, and got only long Terminal writings, not Command Center.– user1041353Apr 9, 2020 at 4:38
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Thank you. (To begin with, all that bull happened after one of daily updates.) Now, I tried to apt-get purge. Terminal answered that the stuff didn't exist. I tried to install && reinstall. Terminal answered, "unable to locate package center." So, how do you think I can reinstall the center?– user1041353Apr 9, 2020 at 11:22