All desktop icons and taskbar at bottom has disapeared

Os 16.3

after recent update all icons are gone and so is taskbar, i have no idea how to get it back, I have tried booting into recovery mode, installing and uninstalling packages, and refreshing the desktop.

any help greatly appreciated.

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Check in your "Zorin Appearance" settings, that the Desktop Appearance has not changed from the Appearance that has taskbar.

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You could try to reinstall the Desktop.

If you have the Core Version type:
sudo apt reinstall zorin-os-desktop

If you have the Lite Version type:
sudo apt reinstall zorin-os-lite-desktop

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Hi i get the error

E: Command line option --reinstall is not understood in combination with the other options

when i try that

I cannot find any setting that lets me change appearance.

Try

sudo apt install --reinstall zorin-os-desktop gdm3

I changed the command to zorin-os-desktop due to your profile indicating that you are on Core, not Lite.

You might want to run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

and follow the prompts.

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Sorry, I had made a Mistake with the Commands. I see You are use the Core Edition. So the Command ist:

sudo apt reinstall zorin-os-desktop

The "--" before "reinstall" was so not right.

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