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I upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 one week ago.
Somehow, I had no settings when I first launched my newly upgraded Ubuntu. I managed to fix that after installing gnome-control-center.
Everything works fine except the "Appearance" settings. I can't change my theme nor enable my dock. The dock is kept hidden for some reason (even though this option is disabled by default). I don't use tweak or any other packages for the dock or the appearance of my windows.
I couldn't find any way to fix it. I tried to remove the user file in dconf or even the .config directory but none of these worked.
Is there anything I could do to fix that? Thanks.
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Try pressing "shift + win + left arrow" or similar combinations to switch displays to where the settings app is open but not visible. Then you can try a single display - I found it was set to "join" which clearly didn't work.
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There are several ways to open it: you can click the toolbox button on your panel, select items in the Preferences section of the GNOME menu, or choose Settings in the System menu. The Control Center is also one place where different distributions vary significantly.
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I faced the same issue on 20.04. I clearly remember at the time of Ubuntu installation system settings was working perfectly, but out of nowhere this problem arose. What i did: Reset the gnome-control-center by sudo dconf reset -f /org/gnome-control-center (but the problem didn’t go away).
Try by reinstalling the gnome control center:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-control-center
You have to re-install Gnome Control Center by typing these command lines:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-control-center
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