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

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This is what I lost.

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fixit7
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    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
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    @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
  • Not that I recall. – fixit7 Mar 21 '19 at 16:08
  • 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
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    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](https://launchpad.net) – sudodus Mar 21 '19 at 16:23
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    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
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    Possibly related: [How to restore the default toolbox windows in GIMP?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/461152/how-to-restore-the-default-toolbox-windows-in-gimp/461178#461178) – 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
  • Ubuntu Mate 18.04 i386 (32-bit) or amd64 (64-bit)? – sudodus Mar 21 '19 at 16:38
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    I installed it using the Gimp flatpak. Everything is good now. :-) – fixit7 Mar 21 '19 at 16:48
  • Congratulations, you solved it yourself :-) – sudodus Mar 21 '19 at 16:50
  • Now to find where the flatpak is. – fixit7 Mar 21 '19 at 17:00
  • 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
  • I installed the gimp flatpak using software. – fixit7 Mar 21 '19 at 18:29
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/91376/discussion-between-sudodus-and-fixit7). – sudodus Mar 21 '19 at 18:31

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In Gimp 2.8 & 2.10:

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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.

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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.

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