Lost my Gimp menu

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I do not know what the exact name it should be called, but I lost my Gimp menu.

This is what I lost.

Which version and flavour of Ubuntu is it? Which version of gimp? Have you tried to purge and after that re-install gimp? — sudodus, Mar 21 '19 at 15:52
@sudodus Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Purge and reinstall did not help. — fixit7, Mar 21 '19 at 15:58
Can you remember some modification that you did recently (modification of the MATE desktop system)? — sudodus, Mar 21 '19 at 16:07
Is it the version that is installed via apt, or is it installed some other way, for example snap or ppa or flatpak? — sudodus, Mar 21 '19 at 16:10
Previously I used synaptic. But recently I did it using apt. — fixit7, Mar 21 '19 at 16:16
are we sure we're looking for something in the Mate user bar? @fixit7 are you looking for sothing that's a OS-side indicator or are you trying to get back a part of the gimp interface? — tatsu, Mar 21 '19 at 16:21
I am also using apt to install gimp. I use it in Ubuntu and Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (with the Bionic kernel series) and up to date. I have not had your problem. Maybe the problem is specific to MATE and because some program package was upgraded. Let us hope someone who had and solved the problem will see this and help you. Otherwise I suggest that you create a bug report at Launchpad — sudodus, Mar 21 '19 at 16:23
I am trying to get back my menu bar in Gimp. I believe it used to be right on top of the opened picture. If you want to upload of pic of what your Gimp looks like when opened, it would help. — fixit7, Mar 21 '19 at 16:24
Possibly related: How to restore the default toolbox windows in GIMP? — steeldriver, Mar 21 '19 at 16:30
@steeldriver I tried it. No luck. I have a clonezilla image from 3/15/19. If I can not get it resolved within a few days, I will restore it. — fixit7, Mar 21 '19 at 16:36
I installed it using the Gimp flatpak. Everything is good now. :-) — fixit7, Mar 21 '19 at 16:48
I think the flatpak is where you put it, maybe in your Downloads directory. If you want to check where it installed gimp, you can use the command which gimp and find /usr -iname "*gimp*" and check for configuration files in your home directory, for example with find ~ -iname "*gimp*" — sudodus, Mar 21 '19 at 18:17

xenoid · Answer 1 · 2019-03-21T20:49:55.503

In Gimp 2.8 & 2.10:

Click the Reset button at the bottom to go back to factory settings.

In practice this kind of setting is in your Gimp profile.

Reinstalling Gimp doesn't fix anything since the Profile is not rewritten (it is more efficient to erase/rename the profile (without reinstalling) to have Gimp recreate a new one).

Installing the next version doesn't fix it either since Gimp migrates your profile to the new version. In your case it worked because your previous version was too old to be considered for migration and Gimp created a new profile with the default settings.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '19 at 18:38

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After trying to purge gimp and reinstalling, I had no luck.

I decided to try installing Gimp using software.

It used a flatpak and now my menu is present.

answered Mar 21 '19 at 18:38

fixit7

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