I am running Ubuntu 22.04, but like the classic menu look, so run with gnome-session-flashback. The other day, something happened, and the Application and Places icons disappeared. In addition, on the bottom panel, at random intervals, I can suddenly see the icons rearrange (maybe to their original order). I have read extensively, and not seen this issue at all.
I tried sudo apt remove gnome-session-flashback and sudo apt purge gnome-session-flashback, and restarting the laptop before reinstalling with sudo apt install gnome-session-flashback, and then the Application and places icons are still missing, and the bottom panel still behaves randomly.
It may be coincidental, but gnome-panel also seems to crash before the bottom panel re-sorts itself.
Any help would be most appreciated.
[Edit]: I checked the dconf setting for gnome-panel, and found it to be corrupted, so I copied the entry from another laptop with the same display and replaced the corrupted instance of /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/object-id-list with a correct version having checked the other ares of /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout are correct and exist, yet once updated, the settings seem to be corrupted again.
This is the behaviour I expect from Windows, and is the first basic issue I have had with Ubuntu, and I really don't want to have to reinstall Ubuntu.
Any help would be most appreciated!
