I’ve been using Google, and only Google, for searches for years. I feel dirty when I walk into the room and see my wife or some relative using Yahoo! Search. It kind of feels like I walked in on them while they were looking for some strange kind of porn.
Anyway, I was dorking around with my Amarok today and accidently hid the menu bar. I tried right click up at the top of the window and nothing happened.
I tried hitting a bunch of different combinations of Alt+<some function key> and Ctrl+<some function key> and lots of things happened but the menu bar didn’t come back.
I tried cussing. Fortunately my wife and kids are out of the house.
I typed “amarok unhide menu bar” without the quotes figuring that I’m not the only person to accidentally do this before and found absolutely nothing that helped.
I went over to Yahoo! after shutting the curtains and locking the window and typed the exact same search phrase.
The #1 search result showed the exact answer to the problem I had created.
Isn’t that how search engines are supposed to work?
I seem to be getting fewer good results from Google recently. I’ll have to remember to try Yahoo! when that happens and if Yahoo! keeps finding the answer, I’ll have to switch over to them.
For those of you that might be interested Ctrl+M will bring back the Amarok menu bar.
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I also mysteriously banished my amarok taskbar, and googled several variations of “amorok - taskbar - menu - unhide - WTF!” I found the answer on this site, which oddly enough, was one of the top Google results. Thanks for the info, and don’t worry … I won’t tell anyone that you used Yahoo!.
Glad to have helped.
Google must be working pretty hard to keep me using their search engine to have me pop up to the top that quickly.
Or maybe there just aren’t that many Linux klutzes out there and Google has just been waiting for somebody to solve this mystery.
Don’t worry Google. You’re still my first search engine love. Let’s just work on cleaning up the search results a little bit. If there are any other searches that you need somebody to write about just let me know.
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