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I installed Ubuntu Mate 18.10 on a 2008 Macbook (2.4 GHz). It's dual-booting with MacOS 10.6.8, using rEFInd.

On the very first boot of a standard installation, the top menu was empty. I have been unable to restore it.

I was able to get the installation working by switching to lightdm, but this provides a very minimal window manager. I'd prefer to have the full window environment I'm used to with Ubuntu Mate.

I've found various similar issues on various forums, and tried many suggestions, to no avail; I removed the .config directory, for instance.

Any suggestions how to get the menu back?

N0rbert
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Pete Forsyth
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Things to try:

  • It is possible, that Ubuntu has detected two screens on your laptop (internal LVDS and external by HDMI), you can check it by changing the settings on monitors:

    1. Login to the MATE desktop from LightDM or other greeter.
    2. Open MATE terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T.
    3. If terminal is invisible - move it to the active screen by pressing Alt+F7 and moving mouse to the right or to the left to have terminal window on screen.

    4. From this terminal execute mate-display-properties and ensure, that current screen is set to Primary:

      Monitor Preferences

      switch other possible monitors to Off and click Apply.

    5. Check that MATE Panel is displayed on laptop screen.

  • If Monitor Preferences are OK, then try to relaunch MATE panel from terminal with:

    killall mate-panel
mate-panel --replace &

  • Other possibility is to reset settings of MATE Panel to default

    dconf reset -f /org/mate/panel/
mate-panel --replace &

Please check these methods and comment if it fails for you.

N0rbert
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