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Fabio
Asked: 2011-05-02 08:41:08 +0800 CST

"Applications" launcher not showing, Alt-F2 not working

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I have just installed ubuntu 11.04 on my ACER 3810T.

Unity is showing only few launchers in the sidebar and the "Applications" launcher is not there. More, if I press Alt-F", not windows (lens) comes up.

Where should I troubleshoot this?

Thanks

PS: Video card: Intel mobile 4 Series Chipset

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The two launchers wEre not showing in the sidebar because the following packages were missing in the system: unity-place-files and unity-place-applications.

    It was just a matter of installing them, login back and the launchers appered!

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  2. Can you open up a terminal session? If so try typing in:

    unity --reset

    This will reset Unity to its default settings and hopefully resolve the issue you're having.

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