Menu button and task bar including time disappeared

[oldguy_46ca]

I have been booting Puppy Wary 5.5 from a CD and gradually adding applications and modifying the appearance of the desktop. Everything has gone as expected. But after installing Open Office 4.1.1 the menu froze and would not open. Clicking on the desk top would not open the menu either.
I dragged the soffice icon to the desktop from /usr/bin/ and it works properly. I rebooted using wmreboot. Now the menu button and task bar have vanished but everything else still works.
I checked my warysave.2fs file with e2fsck and it reports no problems with the file.
Is the file that controls the menu editable? I thought if it is I could just delete all the Open Office references. Can this feature be restored without starting from scratch?
I am fairly new to Linux. One of my biggest problems I notice is not knowing where to look for things in the directory structure.

[starhawk]

Open a terminal and type fixmenus (just like that) and press ENTER. Then restart the window manager.

Let us know if that solves the problem.

[gcmartin]

Hello @OldGuy_46ca

Yeah, this has happen couple times to me over the years. Dont know which of these will help, but I'll share both that has helped me in the past. If fixmenus does not help, you can try these, as well.

#1 ... this assumes JWM got confused:
You could try

1. Menu>Desktop>JWM Settings
2. In JWM Configuration Manager,click Tray Manager>Tray Autohide on
3. Then click Tray Manager>Tray Autohide off.

You should see the tray popup at the bottom on your screen.

#2 ...this assumes your screen got confused
You could try

1. Exit to a prompt
2. type xorgwizard
3. when complete type xwin

You should see the tray at the bottom on your screen.

Hope one of these helps

[oldguy_46ca]

Open a terminal and type fixmenus (just like that) and press ENTER. Then restart the window manager.

Let us know if that solves the problem.

SOLVED. Thank you so much.

[oldguy_46ca]

Hello @OldGuy_46ca

Yeah, this has happen couple times to me over the years. Dont know which of these will help, but I'll share both that has helped me in the past. If fixmenus does not help, you can try these, as well.

#1 ... this assumes JWM got confused:
You could try

1. Menu>Desktop>JWM Settings
2. In JWM Configuration Manager,click Tray Manager>Tray Autohide on
3. Then click Tray Manager>Tray Autohide off.

You should see the tray popup at the bottom on your screen.

#2 ...this assumes your screen got confused
You could try

1. Exit to a prompt
2. type xorgwizard
3. when complete type xwin

You should see the tray at the bottom on your screen.

Hope one of these helps

Thanks but fixmenus worked.