Ubuntu (7.10) Gutsy Gibbon Applications Menu won’t open

July 31st, 2008 under Ubuntu, tech support

Recently my Applications Menu in Ubuntu 7.10 stopped opening after I mistakenly let my hard drive fill up completely. I wasn’t even able to edit the menus, so after banging on the mouse buttons trying to force the menu open I found a solution.

Just run the following in a terminal window:

rm ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

What this does is remove the config file for the menu and resets it to a default. You’ll have to reconfigure your menu to your liking. You can read more about a simulur bug over at launchpad here.

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2 Responses to “Ubuntu (7.10) Gutsy Gibbon Applications Menu won’t open”

  1. Dern said on June 28th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Thank you!!!

    Amazing how much I depend on that menu–and it completely disappeared after my laptop shut down due to lack of power from the battery . . . I was crippled without it. Thanks again for the solution (works in Jaunty too. :-) ).

  2. steve red said on October 31st, 2009 at 11:46 am

    How do I get to the terminal window if I cannot use my applications menu. My menu wont open and I can’t get to accessories. Help

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