Ubuntu 20.04 Unity No applications in "start" menu after upgrading from 18.04
Since I know I did use a tweak tool, although not for gnome, but for Unity - unity-tweak-tool
I did try to make a similar approach and it worked :) Also I did want to keep my Unity, not replace it with another OS GUI (which also works btw - switching to e.g. Gnome BEFORE you login).
but first ... (Step 1)
First I found out that I don't have a GUI way to launch terminal, luckily, there is a shortcut
Open your terminal: press CtrlAltT
Step 2: trying to run unity-tweak-tool
Try to run unity-tweak-tool
from terminal if the graphical interface of unity-tweak-tool
starts fine - skip to step 3
However, for me it yelled about missing packages, it seemed all to be related to unity-lens-SOMETHING
, when I installed one, another popped out, so I just ended up installing all of the unity-lens-*
, error could look like
Error: schema com.canonical.Unity.ApplicationsLens not installed
- notice the pattern of this error and what I'm installing:
sudo apt install unity-lens-applications
sudo apt install unity-lens-music
sudo apt install unity-lens-video
sudo apt install unity-lens-files
sudo apt install unity-lens-photos
After this, run unity-tweak-tool
from terminal again and it should start normally, if it does => go to step 3, if it does not, try to install any dependencies it requires - usually the package has a similar name as the required stuff in com.canonical.Unity.SOMETHINGMISSING
something unity-*
.
If you just write DONT ENTER YET! sudo apt install unity-
to the terminal and hit TAB
2x, it will show you all unity-*
packages - that is not THAT much of them, so you can search there for any missing stuff, similarly for other missing stuff.
Step 3: reseting Unity tweaks
Now that you are in a working GUI of unity-tweak-tool
, under the "Unity" category, open Launcher
- write down all the settings you made there and hit the Restore defaults
button, confirm any questions (you can set your settings back later) - do the same for all the tabs in the Unity category:
Unity -> Launcher -> Restore defaults
Unity -> Search -> Restore defaults
Unity -> Panel -> Restore defaults
Unity -> Switcher -> Restore defaults
Unity -> Additional -> Restore defaults
Step 4: Restart your computer
After restarting, your start menu and the whole panel will be reset to its original position and everything (we've turned off all the tweaks), but application & search menu should now work normally.