Hello
After runninng optimus-manager --switch-nvidia
my dock has disappeared. I can only access it through the meta key. Any ideas on what could be the issue?
Hello
After runninng optimus-manager --switch-nvidia
my dock has disappeared. I can only access it through the meta key. Any ideas on what could be the issue?
My dock is completely missing now, doesn’t matter if I switch graphics cards. I can’t access it without pressing the meta key
Does this also happen when you log into a newly created user? (E.G. vanced2
)
Nope, everything is working fine with my dock for a newly created user
So you have an issue in your user profile and finding out which exact setting you changed is going to take weeks if not months, therefore, we’re going to do the following:
Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.
groups twitty
groups twitty2
(Where obviously, twitty
is your old user and twitty2
is your new one.)
E.G. if twitty
is a member of operator
and twitty2
isn’t, execute:
usermod --append --groups operator twitty2
Copy all data files from your old profile into your new one
cp --verbose --recursive --preserve=timestamps /home/twitty/Documents/* /home/twitty2/Documents/
If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:
rm --recursive /home/twitty/Documents/*
repeat for:
Pictures
Videos
Music
.thunderbird
.mozilla/firefox/
~/.local/share/
E.G. ~/.local/share/wesnoth/
After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on to it any more:
usermod --lock twitty
If you would have theming going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / whatever per day and if the same issue crops up again, roll back your last change and thus you’ve now pinpointed the exact setting that made your old user misbehave.
in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.
If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.
From now on, start making backups so you can roll back and never have to do this again: