Cinnamon 'System Settings' SOLVED

[martinwprior]

This apparently was caused by an hplib update. This posting over on the Linux Mint forum resolves the problem. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1622330#p1622330


All the applets etc have now returned.



I do not know what I did except an update and I am always quite careful about that.

I appear to have lost all my Cinnamon 'System Settings' apps like 'display', 'desklets', 'add-applet-to-panel ......


Does anyone have any idea how I can recover these? re-install did not work.

[turborat]

Kewel! 
Thank you for posting this fix!
I was getting ready to jump out a window . . 

[martinwprior]

Yes it was a sneaky one. Glad it helped someone .

[piper]

Thank you for coming back and posting this ! 

[martinwprior]

I think I have been using Siduction since 2012 and I used Aptosid before that. Periodically I wander away to look at other distros but always come running back