System settings didn't launch on Ubuntu

Question

From today I have this problem on my Ubuntu 16.04:

When I click on System Settings it just blinks and nothing happens.

I tried this but it didn't helped me:

sudo apt-get remove unity-control-center
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get install unity-control-center`

Please [edit] your post with the result of opening a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T and issuing the command unity-control-center --overview Thank you for helping us help you! — Elder Geek, Feb 11 '18 at 21:40
Now it's working if I'm using unity-control-center --overview. Thanks a lot man. — Sergiu Molnar, Feb 12 '18 at 17:20
I'm glad to hear that! See my answer to address the root cause. Cheers! — Elder Geek, Feb 13 '18 at 15:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '18 at 14:12

Since it launches properly from the terminal, you can

Option 1) simply create a new shortcut for it as described here. or

Option 2) repair the existing shortcut at usr/share/applications/unity-control-center.desktop which on my system looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=System Settings
Icon=preferences-system
Exec=unity-control-center --overview
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;
OnlyShowIn=Unity;
Keywords=Preferences;Settings;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=unity-control-center

Option 3) reinstall the package with: sudo apt-get --reinstall install unity-control-center

Any of these approaches should work.

System settings didn't launch on Ubuntu

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