Restarting Cinnamon, using the methods mentioned above (aside from rebooting, which I did not try), did not fix that. But the new item did not have the standard Terminal icon, either in the menu editor or in Start > Accessories > Terminal. I was able to add a Terminal entry to the Start menu by going to Start > right-click > Configure > Menu > Open the menu editor > Accessories > New Item > Name = Terminal, Command = gnome-terminal. That last method worked for me: now I had a Terminal shortcut on my desktop, bearing the standard Terminal icon. Thus, someone in Stack Exchange said I could go to WinKey-E (i.e., open Nemo) > File System > /usr/share/applications > drag Terminal to the desktop. One of those locations was /usr/share/applications. In another approach, I found that locate sktop produced a list of several locations for copies of sktop. Alternately, according to a SuperUser discussion, I could have put a Terminal shortcut on the desktop by dragging the Terminal shortcut from the Start menu, if I’d had one there. But the resulting shortcut did not have the usual square black Terminal icon. I could put a Terminal shortcut on the desktop by using desktop > right-click > Create a new launcher here > Name = Terminal, Command = gnome-terminal. Another method: Start > Administration > Software Manager > search for Terminal > Gnome-terminal > Launch. If those hadn’t worked, another approach (recommended in a Linux Mint forum) was to use Alt-F2 to open a Run dialog, and type gnome-terminal there. Another: right-click on the desktop > Open in Terminal. That opened up several ways of running a Terminal session. So now at least the desktop was responding. By the time I found those solutions, however, I had already rebooted, which also worked. But killall -h seemed to indicate that none of those options were available for killall in Linux Mint. Another possibility: Ctrl-Alt-Esc. The most highly voted solution was to use Alt-F2 > r > Enter (followed, if necessary, by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then sudo service mdm restart). Another upvoted solution was to use killall -HUP -f cinnamon –replace, which would reportedly restart the Cinnamon desktop while preserving open windows and running applications. My Linux Mint did not offer those options, unfortunately, so for present purposes Gnome Tweaks was a mere distraction.Īlternately, to rectify the unresponsive right-click menu, an AskUbuntu discussion suggested multiple ways of restarting Cinnamon. ![]() From there, to fix my unresponsive desktop right-click menu, the advice (at least in Ubuntu) was to go to Keyboard and Mouse section > enable “Have file manager handle the desktop” or try Icons on Desktop > On. To run Gnome Tweaks, I went to Start > Preferences > Tweak Tool (or gnome-tweak-tool). I hoped Gnome Tweaks would be like the Ultimate Windows Tweaker, and to some extent it was. I discovered Gnome Tweaks (a/k/a Gnome Tweak Tool), installed via sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool. What they seemed to mean was not merely adding the launcher to the taskbar, but rather pinning it there, so that it would persist after the program was closed.) For example, I encountered discussions of how to add a launcher to the panel, which could be confusing: it could seem to mean simply running the program, which would automatically put an entry for it into the taskbar. ![]() I found the Windows terms more familiar and specific. I used Windows terms for Start menu, rather than merely Menu, and for taskbar, rather than panel or panel taskbar, because Linux Mint had or could have many menus and panels. WordPress reproduces a double hyphen (i.e., “-” with no space between) as a dash (i.e., –). “WinKey” or “Win-” (in e.g., Win-E) refers to the key with the Windows icon on it, usually located next to the Alt key on one or both sides of the keyboard. (Notes: in this post, commands are in italics. ![]() And at the moment, the desktop was unresponsive: right-clicking didn’t open a context menu. This post explains how I dug myself out of this hole - how I got the system going again, and restored Terminal icons to the Start menu, the taskbar, and the desktop. I also didn’t have a Terminal icon pinned to the taskbar anymore. Unless there was something else going on that I didn’t know about, that bizarrely deleted the original icon from the Start menu as well. Among other things, I made a copy of the Terminal icon.
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