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When I open the terminal in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it shows a black window with no buttons. Nothing's visible, not even the minimise or close button. However all the commands that I type, work perfectly. If I click at the position where the close button should be, it closes. Without the terminal, I cant run any of the command line programs.

This problem has been there ever since I ran the janitor from inside ubuntu-tweak. I deleted cache for chromium and firefox and some other files that I don't remember now. I had removed Unity a year back and have Gnome desktop environment installed. Please help.

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  • I'd always read that Ubuntu-Tweak was a dangerous tool & shouldn't be used, I guess this is one reason why. – Xen2050 Feb 20 '15 at 13:11

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Janitor seems to purge a lot of packages according to this answer:

How safe is Ubuntu tweak's Janitor?

Post #6 from this link could be helpful:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1925476&p=11695832#post11695832

To list all packages that were removed you can use this command (quoted from link mentioned above):

grep 'remove' /var/log/dpkg.log

To install those packages automatically you could use a tool like sed to transform the output of given command to a suitable format for installing it with apt-get.

Or use cut and xargs like:

grep 'remove' /var/log/dpkg.log | cut -d " " -f 4 | xargs -I {} apt-get install {}

To avoid prompts you could use this:

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
grep 'remove' /var/log/dpkg.log | cut -d " " -f 4 | xargs -I {} apt-get -y install {}

Of course if you want to see the commands you are typing you could as a temporary solution use a virtual console Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F6.

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