In my previous post I mentioned that I installed Zorin OS onto an older laptop I had lying around.
Since that post went up I have been messing around with Zorin OS and decided to run a system update to make sure I had the latest packages and security fixes installed. Unfortunately after the update finished and I rebooted I logged in to find that things just weren’t what they used to be… Instead of the nice Zorin OS interface (shown above) I ended up logging in to a standard GNOME Shell interface. It seems as though the update had reset some of the customization that the Zorin team had made.
Thankfully I was able to find the Tweak tool and re-enable many of those customizations again!
The one thing that I couldn’t get back to normal was the duplicate top bar showing open applications. You can see it in the screenshot above but basically I now had both the Zorin OS styled open window bar at the bottom as well as the GNOME Shell version at the top.
The solution it turns out is to turn off all of the Zorin OS extensions that I had tried in the tweak tool and instead open up the Zorin Appearance tool and select the first of the three window options at the top.
The last key to the puzzle was to log out and then log back in for everything to take. And now my desktop is back to normal again!
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