Applications menu disappeared

This morning when I turned on my laptop I noticed that the Applications menu in Ubuntu 9.10 had disappeared – well, not completely, it was still shown in the panel, but when clicking on it it only showed a tiny little rectangle instead of popping up the application list.

After a bit of googling around I found that the solution is really simple: just rename or delete the file

~/.config/menus/applications.menu

For some reason it had been created with a size of 0. As soon as I had deleted it the applications menu did show again!

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One Response to “Applications menu disappeared”

Mahesh Says:
2010/03/25 at 03:55 | Reply
The above dint solve my problem.

you need to remove “applications.menu’ from
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

and then rename “applications.menu.bak”
available in the same folder to “applications.menu”.
The menu will appear in seconds.