Time and date and appearance settings missing

Asked Feb 11 '15 at 09:00

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I am a Linux user since 2010. I used Debian, elementary OS (which is also Ubuntu) and now I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu itself.

But I'm already having some problems that I can't find how to solve. The first of them is that there are some missing settings on my configurations. See:

I can't see the wallpaper settings, screensaver or date and time settings. I can set wallpaper by right-clicking an image and then clicking on "Set as wallpaper". No way to set screensaver. I can set the date from the terminal, but I can't show to my personal friends how amazing Linux is and encourage them to change to it, if even to set the clock they must see me going to terminal. If I click the date and then click 'Date and time settings', it just shows up the configurations panel (from image above). Also, I work with different timezones, and I want to see many timezones when I click the date in topbar, which is not being possible.

I couldn't find another topic with exactly the same problem...

edited Feb 11 '15 at 09:01

muru

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asked Feb 11 '15 at 09:00

Jefrey Sobreira Santos

Maybe http://askubuntu.com/q/122043/158442? – muru Feb 11 '15 at 09:02
Didn't work, I already have gnome-control-center and indicator-datetime packages installed. – Jefrey Sobreira Santos Feb 11 '15 at 09:07
Which flavour is it? Kubuntu? – muru Feb 11 '15 at 09:12
It is 'stock' Ubuntu 14.10. – Jefrey Sobreira Santos Feb 11 '15 at 09:15
Try reinstalling ubuntu-desktop then. A few posts suggest this, but I'm not sure what it does to fix this. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop – muru Feb 11 '15 at 09:16
Thank you very much, it worked! http://postimg.org/image/8yg5yx501/ However it should be a standard reply, so I could select it as correct answer :P I've been searching for the fix for many other topics and forums, and didn't find it in any of them. – Jefrey Sobreira Santos Feb 11 '15 at 09:25
What did it do? I'm curious. – muru Feb 11 '15 at 09:26
(i edited the previous comment) Installing ubuntu-desktop and restarting it solved, now I have appearance and time/date settings :D – Jefrey Sobreira Santos Feb 11 '15 at 09:27
I got it from http://askubuntu.com/questions/466720/system-settings-icons-missing-in-14-04, so I'll mark as a duplicate. – muru Feb 11 '15 at 09:29

Time and date and appearance settings missing

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